LIFE IS LIKE A RIVER, GO WITH THE FLOW…BECAUSE YOU WILL EVENTUALLY
If God is anything at all, it may be considered simply as a flow. The ancient Chinese philosophers called this the Tao, meaning ‘the Way’. When you go along with this natural flow, then you are one with It, and One with God, the Universal Spirit.
The Tao is like a river, flowing down from the mountains to the ocean. If you fight the flow, it will cause suffering. If you resist the flow, it will irritate you, haunt you forever and wear you down. The more you flow with it, the easier life is.
Most people are like rocks in the middle of the river. They are hard headed, obstinate. They attempt to obstruct the Will of God, which is the Flow, the Tao. By doing so, they only hurt themselves. But they do serve a purpose for those who themselves want to flow. The blockheaded fools blocking the river’s flow offer the aspirant an opportunity to use them as stepping stones, to transcend their blockages and step over the selfish bullshit that resists the flow. And this is precisely what the wise have always done (and still do). They let nothing get in their way. If something obstructs them, they do not fight it, they imitate the river by going around the obstruction, always flowing with the river. Of interest is the fact that those stones and boulders in the river always get worn down in time due to erosion. The lesson? Be a giant boulder if you wish, but know that eventually you will be worn down to a pebble helplessly tossed by the current, eventually turning into tiny grains and then into a powdery silt, forever at the mercy of the flow anyway. The flow cannot be resisted for long. God is not mocked,…at least, not for long.
Only masters know how to change the flow by miraculously changing the landscape that shapes the meandering path of the river itself, altering the path of the flow—but that is another story.
