Letting Go of Your Agenda

We have as much an ego as everybody else, but we have discovered a Force, the Tao that takes the steering wheel away from us. We temporarily disconnect from our agenda when we connect with Her. Once you walk the Tao you no longer can root for anything, and in the same way, you can no longer worry about anything either. You worry if you don't know what to do, right? But why would you worry if everything is connected along Her path just as 1 2 3 4 is? At every stage of the way you say yourself, I am just Her instrument; if a misstep happens I know I must have overlooked something, and She will let me know what it was so that I can do it better next time around. If everything works out beautifully, as it normally happens to be the case, how could we take any credit, it was all Her doing!

The ego is there but you disassociate from it. It is like you finally learn that you never run after the shiny objects any more that have gold written right next to them, because you have figured out that whenever gold is advertised in advance, the shiny material is of no value. Instead we have been asked to look for gold elsewhere: in the screaming brother standing next to us, or the smiling colleague who opens our door for us. The Tao is a new way of perceiving, and when we follow Her path, we are way too busy to think about our own agenda. Yes, we cannot help being selfless along the Tao, and everyone has the opportunity to connect with Her here and now just as we do. You just need to look out in the opposite direction of where the perceived gold lies. Of course it takes a certain spiritual maturity to be willing to run this experiment. Most people wouldn't do it because they are way too busy running after the perceived gold instead.

You know yourself that you are not really you, right? When you are young and attractive, you know that one day, the sexy guys will stop looking at you. You might be plain looking instead and so time may be on your side instead. With every decade that goes by, people might be more able to see your inner beauty, which is a nicer experience to have. You might be the successful businessman, or the well respected doctor, or the influential politician. No matter how hard you work, no matter how lucky you may be, or no matter how ruthlessly you try protecting what you have accumulated, there will be a day when you are perceived to be over the hill. And this day will hurt your ego. It has to happen, because it is your doing. It is you sending yourself a memo, 'Hey, this persona isn't you after all.' All of these images are adopted, and time will destroy what you have, or heal the pain you experienced in the past; change will come to teach you a lesson. This is your movie. So why do you identify with who you think you are? Why can't you just accept that you are an actor who will soon be in another movie? Along the Tao this big wake-up call isn't necessary because you get one every day instead!

The Tao gives you that chance to step outside of your agenda all the time. You don't need to wait for the so-called peak experience 'enlightenment' because you are way too busy forgetting yourself here and now. All you need to be willing is to submerge with life and be willing to be digested by it. 'The Power of Now 'that Eckart Tolle talks about can be experienced, and the Tao stands ready to connect you with it. As a first step, why don't you look into the opposite direction of what you have been doing thus far and you will not be able to miss Her.