HI, it’s Tuesday here in Mona Vale, AU, another great day to celebrate life!
Wholeness ultimately determines functionality. If you get a flat tire and you go to change it, but you find that the jack handle is missing, you have the jack less the handle.
Without all the pieces that work together, functionality is disabled. If you’re traveling and your cell phone battery runs dead but you forgot the cord to plug it in, then the pieces will not work until put together.
The saying “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts” applies to this sutra: Pieces Work When Put Together
Life like a 1000 piece puzzle seems hopeless
When strewn across a table
The baby eats them while others play at it
Drinking wine
In meditation, all pieces come to a point
Wholeness.
In TAO-TE-zen practice
There are no pieces strewn
Only parts that work together
For all pieces originate as One!
If the puzzle was your authentic face
How quickly could you put it back together again
Why toddle aimlessly trying to fit pieces you do not know
When that time could be better spent coming to know your SELF.
The earth has four corners
Start where you are
Seven colors has the rainbow dressed in black
Silver and gold, they all go together
Within the edges and the colors
Shape and form.
Find the tree, the stream, your face
Pieces Work When Put Together
For in zen
We Are One!
Human beings often suffer many challenges because pieces of their life are not working together.
One may be very successful in their professional career; they may be making lots of money, but they may have tremendous problems in their personal life. Therefore they’re unable to truly enjoy their professional success or their money because life is metaphorically a collection of pieces.
We have personal relationships with persons, places, and things. We have professional relationships and we have spiritual relationships.
This sutra is an invitation for the TAO-TE-zen practitioner to seek to recognize their authentic face, which happens most effectively through meditation.
Identify the pieces of yourself that need to be integrated as one, and from that perspective of wholeness one naturally gains empathy and compassion for those that are metaphorically broken into pieces and are unable to see their wholeness.
They therefore toil away sometimes aimlessly, drinking wine, trying to put the pieces back together.
I hope you enjoy looking into your life and seeing where your pieces are.
Know that to put the pieces back together again, one must have Oneness.
That Oneness may be your dream, your legacy, what you want to experience in yourself and in life.
Put the pieces of your life together and be an example of wholeness for those who look your way.
Make it a great day!
Love and chi,
Paul Chek
