The reason I teach Taoist wu wei manifesting is because I use it in depth myself and an intrinsic aspect of any spiritual path is that you share the fruits of it with whomever is interested, hence why I do the ‘job’ I do, so if you’re conversant with the loving way I talk about wu wei, you’ll have possibly surmised this results in my own life undergoing frequent radical shifts, one stonker of which has been gathering intensity over the past few weeks, leading goodness-knows-where but its mysteriousness feels good.
Raise the game
Along with the good feeling, however, is an implicit requirement by the path, to raise my game to an unprecedented level in all respects: the congruence and quality of my output, my crafting and presentation skills, my connecting skills and so on, in respect of my current main eight projects. (I’m purposely not going into details to avoid this becoming some sort of marketing pitch, which isn’t my intention here, so bear with me for keeping it generic.)
Adjust the core mechanism
So I experimented with adjusting the core mechanism rather than rush about trying to be more efficient and excellent in the external sense.
In the face of a growing swell of new responsibilities that have now discretely yet irreversibly tagged themselves on to the old, rather than do what the rational mind would have had me do: spend less time on my personal daily training to make more time to fit tasks into, I’ve rebelled like a proper Taoist and doubled my daily training time – double the meditation, double the xing yi, double the tai chi, double the pa kua, double the white crane, double the red dragon floor exercises, double the vocal exercises, double the guitar practice (this last mostly because, as well as the vocal work with the Dub Spirit and Green Rabbit projects, I’m doing a run of gigs in Ibiza over the summer playing guitar with a brilliant German minimalist DJ and French saxophonist and am increasing my fluency and improvisational capacity accordingly, and I’m too excited about it to desist from divulging this particular detail).
Double your focusing power
Not only have I doubled the duration of the practice, I’ve also doubled the internal intensity and focus. I’m applying twice as much of myself rather than coasting comfortably at my previous level.
Naturally doing so, I’m enjoying making great new strides in these arts – and I say this with the childlike ebullience of someone who’s been practicing every day for 44 years, hopefully to inspire you to adopt or redouble training in similar because it just gets better and better – and what’s most exciting to see, is my work in all the various projects spontaneously undergoing a commensurate level of growth, both in quality and astonishingly in quantity too.
In other words, by doubling the focus on what essentially comprises inner alchemy, I’m able, without thinking about it or consciously doing anything differently in the external sense, to double the quality and quantity of output in all the various areas of work.
Naturally doubling is an arbitrary and subjective quantification but is closest to describing the effect.
Temporal anomalies
And I wanted to tell you this while I was outside just now doing xing yi in the sunshine before the big thunderhead from over the hill crept all the way across the sky and blotted out the light and warmth.
But before I did I ate a Hobnob. Now the interesting thing about this, is that in the UK, I never buy Hobnobs – I find them too chewy and grainy – for that school of flavour and oral gratification effect, I’d normally go for a straightforward chocolate digestive. But in Ibiza (and Spain generally), chocolate digestives are slightly sweeter, less salty and altogether a bit strange, while Hobnobs come out less chewy and just right for the job.
Learning to adapt to these sorts of anomalous subtleties, which obviously extend far beyond the parameters of the chocolate cookie universe, is, incidentally one of the great values of spending time living in different countries and environments: it increases your existential flexibility.
And it made me think of the venerated ancient Taoist masters, whose arts I practice and which add so much benefit to my life and the lives of those I have the privilege of sharing them with, and how the concept of eating a Hobnob after practice would have been total anathema to them.
They wouldn’t have tried to resolve the paradox, however, but would have been content to let it remain a mysterious conundrum until it resolved itself.
Let the paradox resolve itself
And as we quicken in our discovery of the next paradigm along in the human experiment, it behoves us too, to let the paradox be and desist from attempting to resolve it, waiting patiently and humbly until it resolves itself. And not just the Hobnob and Taoism paradox, but all the other apparent ones too – how we’re going to sustain human life in the face of a resource meltdown and all the ramified potential pandemonium of that, to name but one example.
Our place now is to trust – to redouble personal discipline in order to make way more of a connection to source on a daily basis and to allow the current of life to support us by bringing into our respective personal orbits everyone and everything we each need to succeed in our divine mission.
Mission-transmission over.
Stand easy.
With love, Supercharged
Don’t even try to resolve the paradox - be content to let it remain a mysterious conundrum until it resolves itself.
