Untying the knots of life

No 7 of Yin Yang Equations

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The easy going days of yesteryear seem far removed. Nothing seems to be as before. This is to be expected but what can we do? 

Please do remember that whatever we do, we can and should do better but we may not feel as good as before. Time marches on. Times have changed. We change as well. Expectations change as well. 

This is what we know as progress. How sad can this be! But can we do with less and must we go for more? 

Well, we just have to go along and move on. There is one quality which a few have which many do not. 

What is this quality? It is not how much we can have or could accomplish. It is how at peace we can be or the level of satisfaction in moment to moment life we can have whatever the outcome in what we do in our day to day life or how we can make our daily life to be. It is how we can cope with society demands and our own in the way there will be peace somehow whatever the outcome.

Of course, there is need to moderate expectations both of society and of oneself. But if we could not, then are we not going to do something about it. 

Try to moderate expectations but if this is still not enough, then what can we turn to or who can we turn to! God and saints above will be the recourse but then we obviously need to lower and moderate expectations of God and saints as well. 

We must not make them out to be what we want them to be and what we want them to do for us. We should ask why would they want to help us and what they would and could do for us. 

This boils down to having less expectations or strife and going for more life with less or if possible no strife. We need God and saints to help, to make things easier but we cannot expect the sky out of them. We cannot expect all that we want to drop down literally from the sky. 

The strife we have is because of the many ups and downs and because of the many competing demands on our limited resources and time. We cannot wish our problems and strife away but we can ask for heavenly blessings to have the resilience and disposition to cope with more of life and at an easier pace. 

God and saints cannot take over our life but they can do a thing or two to straighten out issues in life, tweak life here and there, help us sort and arrange our life and that way life may seem easier and work out more smoothly. 

Ji Gong for instance can use his golden fan to fan out the knots and backlog of problems in life, the yin and yang of life. He can even out the yin and yang so that we can move on more easily to relive and rebuilt our life. 

Ji Gong Huo Fo

Then, we can somehow have head start again but we still need to live our own life. Ji Gong and other saints cannot live life for us.