It is often when we become obsessed or distraught by the small details of our lives that we lose the big picture. We might see birds swooping around in the tops of the trees or on the rooftops or even on the tops of electrical lines.Īnd, of course, as with all real practices, we can take it a step further and use the concept of looking up in our own lives. Even just the sight of the rooftops of the buildings around us, as they blend in with the line of the sky behind them can be beautiful. The tops of old buildings in many cities are covered with wonderful designs.
It is just a wonderful practice to notice what we don’t usually see when we are walking or driving along. Or we might see the tops of the trees swaying slowly in the breeze, reaching into the sky, connecting from their deeply entrenched roots down in the great yin of mother earth and then stretching up higher and higher into the great yang of the heavens. Or else we might see the rain itself, falling down into our open eyes and perhaps, open mouth.
#Hua ching ni 5 clouds meditation full
Or else we see the great billowing clouds, all full of the promise of rain to make all things on our planet grow and flourish. When we look up we see the blue, blue sky above us, with the bright shards of sunlight flowing down to us. It is amazing how often we travel down the road or even across our yard or across the street, all the while looking straight ahead, if not down at our feet.
By Looking Up I mean to, number one, physically look up. My personal practice these days consists, in a large part, in something I call Looking Up. Then our dance can really be a celebration and union with Source, what the ancients called Dao. In this way we can really hear what is going on all around and within us. Then he goes further and says to listen not just with our hearts but with our whole qi body. Zhuangzi tells us that in order to hear the music of the universe we need to listen, not with our ears but with our hearts. It is only in learning to listen, with our inner ear, that we can move to the cosmic rhythms of Dao itself. When we are flowing like the water that Laozi talks about, taking the shape of whatever container/experience we find ourselves in, then our dance flows like a river down to the sea. When we try to hard, when try to force, when we try to make things happen, we often fall on our face! But when we are listening for the music within, when we are moving to the inner rhythms of our body and spirit our dance becomes a thing of beauty. It is when we are dancing in a graceful, balanced fashion that our life becomes such a dance.
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