VIDEO REWIND: Living Life As It Is (12M)

This is a video I cut about a year ago. The title must have sucked out loud, because it hasn’t been watched much, and it’s a very decent video. Title is usually the problem with low-view videos, because you can’t know if a video is good or lousy until after you’ve viewed it. About the only other cause can be a poor thumbnail picture, and all of my thumbnails are pretty stupid, so I don’t see how this one would have run viewers off.

So I’m shortening this one from “Living Life As It Is: Living in the Absence of Why” to just “Living Life As It Is”. We’ll see if that helps. You know what? Now that I’ve changed it, I see that the original title did suck. Live and learn.

We want to know why about everything, do we not? Why me? Why this? Why now? Why don’t I…? Why don’t you…? Why are they…? Why, why, why??

With the typical arrogance that these characters are prone to display, we actually feel like we have a right to know the why of things. Well, I hate it for you, but we don’t. In fact, we can’t know the why of things, because there is no why of things. Everything is at it is. Period.

So when we agree to allow the world to roll on the way it’s rolling anyway, without requiring the Tao to stop and explain things as it goes, we notice that things–meaning the experiencing of our lives–suddenly smooth out. We discover that why is a resistance mechanism, a reflexive response to buy us time while we figure out if this arising meets our approval or not. Surely it should?

Take a few minutes to watch this, and maybe your experience of the day will go more smoothly. The day’s going to go as it goes. Why suffer over the inevitable?

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Living Life As It Is