Christmas
Christ – “the Anointed One” (greek version of Hebrew Messiah)
Mass – rom Late Latin missa “dismissal,” fem. past participle of mittere “to let go, send”
Ah!
What a big difference it makes to have the sun shining on your window!
Wht a big difference it makes when the tea you made is full of wonders, rich in taste and indulging.
What a difference it makes when it’s holiday and people are just a little bit more joyful. When people are “sent” back to their lives out of the cages of work and duties. Perhaps to ponder a little. Now finally there’s more space for silence. The silence of wonder. The silence of looking at life again. The space between action and reaction, impulse and reaction. That’s where the freedom and change lies.
I am starting to pay more attention to that space these days. Inspired by Alexander Technique, I started inhibiting my patterns of reaction (re-action) when I am receiving impulses for actions and reactions. For instance, today while taking cold shower I said to myself that instead of shrinking my body, I will be more open and let the cold come down. Another thing I did was when drying my hair I relaxed my body to straighten my whole body properly and put less train and tension when it’s not needed. There are a lot of unnecessary action that should be removed completely and which could be substituted with “no-actions” that will create more space for energy in the body that can be used for other things. Our body is able to do more, but to have more, you need the “less”. Only life can teach this understanding. Therefore, we need to open ourselves for this teaching.
From Tao Te Ching:
47. 1. Without going outside his door, one understands (all that takes place) under the sky; without looking out from his window, one sees the Tao of Heaven. The farther that one goes out (from himself), the less he knows.
2. Therefore the sages got their knowledge without travelling; gave their (right) names to things without seeing them; and accomplished their ends without any purpose of doing so.
48. 1. He who devotes himself to learning (seeks) from day to day to increase (his knowledge); he who devotes himself to the Tao (seeks) from day to day to diminish (his doing).
2. He diminishes it and again diminishes it, till he arrives at doing nothing (on purpose). Having arrived at this point of non-action, there is nothing which he does not do.