Evolution, adaptation

My best friend and I were talking about life today. We always seem to have so many revelations about life and ourselves. That girl means so much to me. It was a long conversation filled with us talking story like normal girlfriends would, so i will paraphrase and skip to the nitty gritty.

Sometimes you need to pull back the reigns a bit and let go of control. Let things happen, accumulate, transpire on their own. It made me remember this....



It's from when I trained in Kungfu. We talked/learned about the spiritual aspect of Kungfu (because one cannot truly be without the other) and it was my favorite part. Probably because growing up the spiritual aspect of my life was always very unsatisfactory. I've always been searching for something that made sense to me (and not something forced upon me), something I could utilize in my life and evolve my stunted spiritual existence. Below is the Proverb:


"Adapting"


...heaven embraces the horizon.
No matter how jagged the profile,
The sky faithfully conforms...


Whereever you are the sky constantly meets the horizon. It conforms absolutely with the earth's surface. Changed in the earth or sky do not affect this perfect adaptation. There might be clouds, it might be night, there might be mountains or trees or even buildings on the horizon, but the relationship remains. No matter what circumstances life may present, we must adapt exactly, whether we think the situation is good or bad. Resistence is useless. Instead, we should concentrate on perceiving whatever circumstances around us......being flexible and constantly adjusting to the times is one of the secrets of the Tao..... ...we often think of the landscape as being in the foreground and the sky as the background. It is because the sky is always in the background that it can meet the outline of the foreground perfectly. If we emulate this feature of being in the background, then we too, can find perfect conformity with life. Such adaptation is not passivity, however. It is concordance. It is because the sky is in the background that it is in fact supreme. So too with ourselves. If we know how to adapt, we end up being superior......



Change will happen with or without us. Will you be left behind in the dust, or follow the flow of life along and coexist to the evolution happening around you adapting to what you cannot control? Sent from my iPhone