Well, I can tell you what’s flowing oceanwards and performing effortlessly: my intestines. One day of mainly raw/juiced and 100% plant-based food, and my innards are having a celebratory field day. I need to remember (eg. when the time taken for chopping fruit/veg and cleaning the juicer feels burdensome) that taking the approach of ‘Let thy food by thy medicine‘ is a powerful gift to oneself. Like, really. It’s instant and soothing and so integrated. Thank you, Anthony William, for giving me the wherewithal to return to such a healing protocol with confidence and simplicity. Bless you for your gifts.
How did the 20mph stroll through your day go yesterday?
Well, it was my first day back at work. I did hold off working til midday exactly, as planned – and that really helped. I do think 5/6 hours a day is plenty for me, especially while healing the adrenal fatigue (and EBV?). I did take a laid back approach where possible, and actually my colleague and I met a potential client and got a sizeable deal over the line. Sitting back in one’s own seat is important, right?
Let’s look at Chapter 3 of the Tao Te Ching:
‘the governing of the saint is to empty one’s mind, substantiate one’s virtue, weaken one’s worldly ambition and strengthen one’s essence’ (3.4-5)
What do you draw from this line?
Less thinking and plotting; more essential goodness. What is my ‘essence’?
Fairness.
Oh really?!
We could say ‘justice’ but you find that rather high-falutin, and also a touch threatening unless paired with ‘mercy’. So best to say simply: fairness is important to you.
There is so much ‘unfairness’! Some people have just no sense of fairness at all. They reach out over the heads of others ruthlessly!
Ask yourself: what is fairness?
I’ll look it up: ‘impartial and just treatment or behaviour without favouritism or discrimination.‘ Yes, and to me it also means that one person doesn’t ride roughshod over the needs of another. No one takes more than is due to them, or takes at the expense of another.
Tough times for the purveyors of fairness…
Shucks, I know man… And yet, plenty to keep them (us) busy.
Is this something you can ‘identify’ with? Does it sum up your philosophy-in -action?
The purveyance of fairness? Yes! I can play with that today. It will ease my approach to my work as well – helping me get into the gear of ‘substantiating one’s virtue’ instead of leaning into my ‘worldly ambition’.
I am a purveyor of fairness