Wonderful to see stories are circulating about the beauty of the Mississippi - loved my time on the river with you all, and the ease with which you can return to just being fully present. There is a tribal people, the Pirahã people, who live in the Amazon, their hunting and gathering requires their complete observance of being present, anything else and they would not survive, so much so they have no words for the past or the future ~ story told by Bruce Parry www.bruceparry.com who I was fortunate to spend some time.
Wonderful to see stories are circulating about the beauty of the Mississippi - loved my time on the river with you all, and the ease with which you can return to just being fully present. There is a tribal people, the Pirahã people, who live in the Amazon, their hunting and gathering requires their complete observance of being present, anything else and they would not survive, so much so they have no words for the past or the future ~ story told by Bruce Parry www.bruceparry.com who I was fortunate to spend some time.
Love that David! The river is forever exercising that quality... being entirely in the moment. To do so otherwise makes life difficult, and dangerous!
Artist friend "MudPie" Diane Washa shared this with me, a Tao Te Ching proverb about being present:
Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?
The Master doesn’t seek fulfillment.
Not seeking, not expecting,
She is present, and can welcome all things."
...so much like the river, forever flowing, but always the same.
Always there, but always changing...