Posted by This week I taught Rick Hanson’s meditation group the first three of the series of six valuable questions we’ve been exploring here in these blog posts over the past months. I look forward to sharing the other three questions with them over the next two classes, as they were very receptive and enthusiastic. Many signed up for my mailing list to receive the free downloadable document I am compiling from the posts on this course. Then it will be sent out to everyone on my mailing list.
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As I do final edit and polish it up, I’m adding a couple of my poems about questions and answers. Then yesterday, as I looked through my notes from a retreat a few years back, I found this Lao Tzu quote that fits perfectly to end this particular exploration. Take it in at your leisure:
Always we hope
someone else
has the answer,
someplace else
will be better,
some other time
it will all turn out.
This is it.
No one else
has the answer.
No other place
will be better.
And it has
already
turned out.
At the center
of your being
you have
the answer.
You know
who you are
and you know
what you want.
There is no need
to run outside
for better seeing.
There is no need
to peer from
the window.
Rather abide
at the center
of your being,
for the more you
leave it, the less
you learn.
Search your heart
and see: The way
to do is to be.
— Lao Tzu
STEPHANIE NOBLE 