How to Connect with the Tao

We have often shared our observations of walking the Tao. The big question of course for anyone who likes to join in our journey, so how exactly does one connect with the Tao? Actually connecting with the Tao is more about your willingness and openness to connect. The divine connection always exists moment by moment. As they say, when the student is ready, the teacher is there.

Connecting with the Tao is like a curtain falling and where there was a room before there is suddenly open space for as far as the eye can see. Eckhart Tolle wrote in The Power of Now that after falling into a deep depression he was suddenly caught by a force that seemed to suck him into a vortex and when we woke up the next morning he literally saw and perceived the world with new eyes. Sometimes you can have this transformation when you read a spiritual text, you can have it when inspiration hits you during a conversation, a movie, a sad experience, anything really. When those significant moments occur something shifts within you. It doesn't mean that after this "wake-up call" you don't have an ego anymore, but you do see your Self for a brief moment and have a different relationship with your ego afterwards. In Su Zhen's case, she actually had an awakening when she read Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth.

You are the Tao. The holy Now goes by you - you will connect in whatever way it is meaningful to you. For Su Zhen meditation is the way to reconnect to the True Self. She sits quietly, waiting for the rhythmic breathing to go on auto-pilot and then alertness and silence simply descends on her and she is in the Flow again. For Christian it is seeing the signs when "life hits him", seeing magical connections that no one else appears to pick up, discovering symbols in everything we do, say and experience. Connecting with the Tao is like walking a red carpet that is visible to no one but you. The journey is simply beyond imagination. When you walk the Tao you always feel full of harmony, peace, beauty, love and joy!

You may again ask, " Yes, I get that it is cool to be connected, but how exactly do I get there?" Well, given that you are reading these notes you are probably pretty close. That is how the Tao typically works. Just open up to life, appreciate everything that comes your way, whether you initially like it or not. Find your quiet times as well. You can medicate anywhere really. If you are quiet enough, you can always feel that your energy frequency changes according to whatever you are thinking of. Your ego has a very different tune than your Tue Self. Try it. If you truly want to find out hat is going on inside of you, your teacher will show up. He could come as a friend or Her Voice could come from within. This Universe was created just for you to come Home. You cannot really make a mistake. If you are connected you have everything and if you are not, the Tao will always tell you the interference that stand between you and perceiving the holy Now. Just have fun experimenting - enjoy!