And Then Some Tai Chi

Tonight, G returns to Tai Chi and I am rejoining the class .. there is a wish not to fall back into old patterns and another wish for allowing some experimentation time, to feel into how it can be from here on in .. no divide between the knowing and the not knowing .. G opens the Tao Te Ching and reads at random ..

'If a country is governed with tolerance,
the people are comfortable and honest.
If a country is governed with repression,
the people are depressed and crafty.

When the will to power is in charge,
the higher the ideals, the lower the results.
Try to make people happy,
and you lay the groundwork for misery.
Try to make people moral,
and you lay the groundwork for vice.

Thus the Master is content
to serve as an example
and not to impose her will.
She is pointed, but doesn't pierce
Straightforward, but supple.
Radiant, but easy on the eyes.'

and then

'For governing a country well
there is nothing better than moderation.

The mark of a moderate man
is freedom from his own ideas.
Tolerant like the sky,
all-pervading like sunlight,
firm like a mountain,
supple like a tree in the wind,
he has no destination in view
and makes use of anything
life happens to bring his way.

Nothing is impossible for him.
Because he has let go,
he can care for the people's welfare
as a mother cares for her child'

I am touched again by this as I write .. and I feel honoured to be part of this new leg of G's journey .. of all of our journeys.