The TAO Of Daniel: RELATIONSHIPS

There are many types of relationships in life; or so we are told.

The Tao explores this thing of ‘relationship’ with regards to the connectedness of all things; the mutual give and take of all life forms.

This ‘give and take’ can best be described as ‘friendship’. After all, whether husband and wife, Mother and child, colleagues, house mates etc, friendship is that underlying truth beneath them all.

Friendship knows deeply that the simple act of trying to be oneself is all we can manage; it understands the limits of humankind, and the power of recognising those limits.

Friendship is all that is left after divorce, after a break up, after illness, after arguments, sadness, confusion, being fired, and after death even!

Perhaps we are all friends, always, and a stranger is simply a friend in waiting.

The Tao knows friendship as the acceptance of all relationships and happenings within them; spiritual, simple, kind, conflicting or otherwise.

In what ways might we become better friends? With others, with the world around us, and with ourselves?

The Tao has no answers except that the simplest, most obvious answer is usually the best. ‘The Path of Least Resistance’ as it is described in the Tao Te Ching.

Doing the easy thing is a remarkably friendly way to approach oneself. Why try, after all, unless it’s absolutely necessary to do so.

And we are often surprised, are we not, by the amount we actually get done, and what we can achieve, if we allow ourselves to do the easiest things possible.

…to be a friend to ourselves, and to others in this world before anything else.

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