Following The Dao

In many of the personal development classes I have attended, my teacher, Chuck, always talks about following the DAO....

And so for a while, it was my practice to surrender to the flow of life and surrendering to come what may.

BUT... there is a part of me that held on to the fantasy... that if I did what my teacher said and followed the DAO, my life will be GREAT throughout and there will be no problems! So everytime I hit a an obstacle, I will get frozen and take a step backwards.

And then he reminds me, "Follow the DAO.. " and I follow.... and abandon the plan immediately when I hit another block.

In his latest Love and Miracles workshop, it suddenly hit me that I have been holding on to a fantasy. I am sure he has said this countless times but I feel I have only just heard it for the first time! I am para phrasing here... but this time, I finally got the FULL message that even "all of life’s challenges are the Dao’s way of ensuring u learn the lessons of your path… so the only thing way to approach a problem is to surrender to it …"

Being in the Dao does not mean no challenges since challenges are sometimes part of the path. We choose to be in the flow when good things happen and surrender when bad things happen too.
Surrendering is not giving up or being weak in front of a problem but just accepting come what may and taking steps forward as u are called to do so.

It was such a timely reminder for me as I was in the midst of being caught up with busy-ness at work (consecutive non stop events with no extra bandwidth for anything else in life) and being stuck in an area I really wanted to move forward in. Having the realisation that following the Dao included having "lessons" along the way allowed me to accept that there is some lesson in why I couldn't move forward right now and as I surrendered to the process, I was able to take baby steps forward as I am called to do. 

And eventually I got past my inertia and went back in the flow of things. 

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