When Wholeness Meets Holiness

Buddha once said, " The good stuff, do it, the bad stuff, let it be!" This is true but you have a long journey ahead before you realize what is "good" for your homecoming. The Tao will lead you Home but you will probably be encouraged to question your spiritual value system.You will find that over and over again the Tao encourages you to follow your desires. This is what you were born to do, discovering who you truly are by embracing who you think you are and by encountering life. We don’t get this realization by listening to anyone. Life teaches us day by day who we really are.

We have been taught what is "good" and what is "bad" since our childhood. These values have effectively become our super-ego and so we will experience extreme struggles if a voice inside us is telling us that we should deveate from these norms. Yet we feel intrigued by whatever is prohibited. Crossing that line at times feels right, and at times has a demonic attraction. As Tao travelers we can't tell you anything about your path. Get in touch with yourself and become your own guru. By exploring life and by not avoiding anything your heart desires you will certainly make mistakes; will experience pain, but at the same time you will experience the complete spectrum of life and and you will become whole in the process. You will have so much more compassion for the fellow next door that way and you cease being afraid. If you have met your shadow, if you face your pure ego-driven desires without repressing anything there is nothing you can be afraid of anymore. At this moment you internalize all spiritual rules and perhaps you can even teach society a thing or two. You will learn to let your heart talk no matter what.

Along the Tao you will differentiate between"useful" and "not useful" instead. God in Neale Walsch's Conversations with God talked often about this concept. When you want to drive north, it just doesn't make much sense to drive south instead, right? But how can you say that going north is "good", it is not for someone who is going south. In the same matter, let the egomaniac CEO do whatever he has to do and the Hollywood star go for her 7th plastic surgery. It doesn't make sense to put any value judgment on driving north, for your soul siblings who drive south are as special as you are.

You have to decide what homework you still have to do. As long as you think something is missing in your life, go after it. Woo that dream partner that you lust after, go after that promotion that you aspire, try to become the bestselling spiritual author that you always wanted to be and manifest that body of your dreams. You will have to wrangle with life a little to get what you want. The Tao will send you plenty of feed-back along the way. Let life - the Tao - show who you truly are and let your choices define you and make you whole.

Being a Tao traveler is not something you can just do as a hobby. When you are chosen you will no longer really have a choice as it is probably dawning on you already. Further and further will you walk up the staircase towards the light and every step in the opposite direction will literally hurt you - taking a few consecutive steps in the opposite direction will suck the life out of you, so upwards you have to go. The reason for that is energy. Along the Tao, higher and higher energy centers are opening up and they will transform you. Any exposure to old energy fields will literally hurt you.

As you mature spiritually and as some of your ego-driven desires drop off naturally along the Way, you will converge with the religious notions of "good" and " bad". The high energy centers all converge in the end and the Tao will lead you there. Eventually you will find divinity in your sexual partner, you will eat only purified food and you will put your life in the service of humanity. The way towards holiness is wholeness and wholeness is acquired by embracing life fully. After a decade or two of dealing with life as a Tao traveler you will probably echo Buddha's sentiment, "The good stuff do it, the bad stuff, let it be!" But you have to let every Tao traveler find this insight out for herself.

By Christian and Su Zhen