Jeff Gee’s Blog

Chop Wood–Carry Water

October 9th, 2008

Maybe you’ve heard of the monk who goes to his spiritual teacher and says, “I feel like I’ve finally reached enlightenment, what do I do now?”

The teacher answers back, “Chop wood, carry water” or in another version of the story, the teacher says, “Clean your rice bowl.”

In other words, we just keep on doing what we do. We clean one area of the office or home, and the other area looks dirty, and screams to be cleaned too. Or we get one relationship on track, and another relationship becomes problematic. It’s just life keeping on lifing.

You may have heard that one of the definitions of the word problem, is ‘to throw forward,’ it comes from the latin word problema! So whenever we handle a problem in one area of life, it moves us forward in all the other areas of our life that have similar problems.

We pay off one credit card, and maybe there is another one to pay off, but now we know how to do it!

We forgive one person, and realize there is another person in our life that we need to forgive.

I sometimes think, we expect too much of life. That we are going to finish doing what we are doing, and go spend the rest of our life spread out on a beach sipping martinis. It sounds luxurious, but in reality, it’s not. You probably know of people who go on vactaion, and come back with horror stories. This wasn’t right, that wasn’t right.

Not that you are like this. Not that I am. But some people are. So let’s lead the way for our amazing nation…for our wonderful planet. Let’s let go of fear and live from a place of acceptance and love. Let’s be happy with what we have right now. Let’s let go of the victim mentality, and the fear of financial downfall. Cut back on what you can, re-cycle, be happy with what you have. Do things great. Smile, be the leader of change. It’s time for us to evolve and get out of the cycle of fear. We have an amazing opportunity you and I right now, to be amazing. Rock N Roll Val & Jeff

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