The Dance Between Passivity and Action

In the background, and often the foreground, there’s a dance that’s playing out. And it’s the dance between passivity and action. Sometimes it feels more like a title fight than a dance, but it’s bigger than us, so we let it ride. Or that’s what we attempt to do, though it doesn’t always work out. One the one hand, we know that all is already perfect and whole, and on the other hand, we are always evolving, developing. Like the Buddhist idea of Always Being, Always Becoming. How do we know when to just Be, and when to Do? If you’re quiet inside, you can feel a leaning toward one and away from the other. A feeling of division and contraction one way, and a feeling of expansion or unity in the other. If it’s too “loud” outside to be quiet on the inside, you can always do nothing. If “something” keeps coming back and...