06-10-21

I’m not sure where I’m standing… I am not entirely certain where to go. A leaf in the wind, a pebble in a pond.Embracing uncertainty is something I am getting more used to now. Letting things go and stop rushing to get anywhere… for there is nowhere to be other than here and now.

The present moment is an ever evading thing, it keeps slipping away from me. But every now and then I grasp it in it’s enormity. For a few seconds I can sense it flowing through me, and it is a beautiful thing indeed!

Most of the time it comes in the shape of a hug, a kiss or a gentle smile.I try to attain it while I type this silly words, while I pursue my daily tasks. Sometimes I think to myself… this is it!... this is what you must train yourself to do now...the aim of your life… to be present… here… now!.
But then a second voce pops up and says… stop! …. What are this words you use? … The aim of your life? … must you have one? …. Must there always be something to be learned? Something to master? … doesn’t that take you away from the present moment?

I sit and wonder about this and it is true. The practice itself, of high living. It is not something to master, to attain. Just like meditation, where you sit down and empty yourself, knowing full well that thoughts WILL arise and WILL drive you away.
There is no “winning”, no “mastery” in this. There is only the living. A practice that enfolds every action we take. Eyes wide open, looking at everything, taking it all in, and acting in small but meaningful bursts. Like the DAO, only a few moves at the right time, surfing the waves.

So what is the aim of higher living? Well… I believe we are all magical beings, not in a new-age kind of way but in a truest sense. If one wanted, we could bring anger and destruction very easily into the world… Thankfully most people chose not to. Yet for some reason, that same power it’s granted to us to bring happiness, fun and enjoyment… and we don't do it either.
So maybe higher living is just being aware that we have that power. At first just noticing it and playing with it. Noticing how we are able to affect our surroundings with our mere mood and vibrations. Then choosing in a deliberate way, to bring something good and beautiful into the world.

If we can just we aware of our power, we can start to learn how to use it in a better way. That is higher living. With intention, intensity… knowing that each moment is unique, and won’t ever come again.
But it is not something you can master, learn, acquire one day and be done the next. Is a form of being, a practice in which the practice itself is the goal. The journey is the destination my friend… that much is true.

Be on your way and be present as you go.