And Today The Barefoot Doctor Says ..

Are you willing to let go of the external effects of what you think is right for you and instead intend simply to achieve your perfect happiness and, by extension, the perfect happiness of all those you touch directly or indirectly, then surrender to the wave that will carry you there, without meddling, resisting, pushing or pulling, however painful it inevitably becomes at times, no matter the precise form that perfect happiness appears in?
Are you willing to trust the innate benevolence of the unstoppable force driving the wave to eventually deliver your perfect happiness, even if at times the pressure of the current impacts heavily on you causing you almost unbearable restriction before the release comes?
Are you willing to follow the Tao?

Or would you prefer to play it safe by clinging in resistance to the familiar, to outmoded patterns and life strategies that no longer serve you? Or try and affect a quasi-balance of the two, as we most of us do?

Eventually life makes you let go if you haven’t done so already and if you have done so already, it makes you let go some more – and that’s even before you get to do the big let-go when you die.
And it can hurt like hell at times – like having your skin stripped and your entrails yanked out.
But through the pain and its subsequent healing, you grow larger in your capacity to channel, accommodate and make peace with the yin and yang (decrease and increase) of it all – more of the pleasure, more of the pain and by and by you learn to seat yourself in the centre of the seesaw more of the time so the tipping from side to side between the two doesn’t get you too dishevelled.
You learn by and by to identify less with that aspect who experiences the up or the down and more with that unchanging part of you at the core and it’s that part of you I’m addressing when I say everything’s going to be alright – it really is.