"Easy is right! Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy, and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way and forget that going is easy." Chuang Tzu
Sounds paradoxical? It makes sense if you look deeper - like a Taoist.
Tao is the way. If you are following the way, your life is easy. So if you begin right - follow the way, your life is easy. Simple example is swimming in the direction the river flows, you hardly have to make any effort - just stay afloat and river carries you. But if you swim against the current, have to make tremendous effort. So begin right and life is easy. Continue easy and you are right. As long as you are going in the direction river is flowing, you are able to continue with ease - which proves that you are going in the right direction. Once you are going in right direction and continuing with ease, you may as well let go off the thoughts about going in right direction and continuing with ease because river is going to take you there and you can enjoy the ride without thinking about going right and being easy. We feel the resistance in our daily lives for various reasons, but one thing is for sure - we have not begun our journeys right. Otherwise going would be easy. We carry the burden of unnecessary things and feel bogged down. So, we have to introspect, get rid of unnecessary burden - begin right and life would be easy. As long as we don't gather unnecessary things again to bog us down - continue easy and we are on right way. Once we have learnt to begin right and continue easy - let our feeling be our guide. The moment we feel uneasy, we should know that we are deviating from the right way and get rid of any baggage that is trying to tag along. So once we have mastered the technique, we can let go off the thoughts about being right and going easy and enjoy the journey.
Sounds paradoxical? It makes sense if you look deeper - like a Taoist.
Tao is the way. If you are following the way, your life is easy. So if you begin right - follow the way, your life is easy. Simple example is swimming in the direction the river flows, you hardly have to make any effort - just stay afloat and river carries you. But if you swim against the current, have to make tremendous effort. So begin right and life is easy. Continue easy and you are right. As long as you are going in the direction river is flowing, you are able to continue with ease - which proves that you are going in the right direction. Once you are going in right direction and continuing with ease, you may as well let go off the thoughts about going in right direction and continuing with ease because river is going to take you there and you can enjoy the ride without thinking about going right and being easy. We feel the resistance in our daily lives for various reasons, but one thing is for sure - we have not begun our journeys right. Otherwise going would be easy. We carry the burden of unnecessary things and feel bogged down. So, we have to introspect, get rid of unnecessary burden - begin right and life would be easy. As long as we don't gather unnecessary things again to bog us down - continue easy and we are on right way. Once we have learnt to begin right and continue easy - let our feeling be our guide. The moment we feel uneasy, we should know that we are deviating from the right way and get rid of any baggage that is trying to tag along. So once we have mastered the technique, we can let go off the thoughts about being right and going easy and enjoy the journey.
