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I was on my patio today with my cat, and we were both sitting there watching this lizard run quickly back and forth across the cement. Then my other cat came outside and chased the lizard. I thought, one cat seemed to be one with the Dao and the other wasn't. But then I thought, maybe both are one with the Dao. One had a sitting, observing nature, and one had a chasing instinctual hunting nature. Both were one with their nature in those moments.
We act according to our nature. But then humans, have two natures. Our natural empty one, and the one created by identifying with our conceptual projections. So in a sense we choose our nature, and through this, choose our experience.
Zuowang is a dropping of conceptions. When we drop conceptions, what we have is the natural emergence of the natural self, the natural celestial mind, which has been with us all the time. It is only because of our con-ceptions that we can’t experience it.
Eva Wong, practitioner of Complete Perfection (Quanzhen 全真) Daoism,
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