The Tao of Pooh 2

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But therein lies the problem. I cannot try to simply be. It's all altogether different function. To try is to meddle, while to be is to let be, and Taoism is all about not meddling. So how do I be? By being of course. Easier said than done. So I have to let myself see the way, and then do the way, and then be the way...but how to I let myself to see without looking?

I'm no expert on the subject, but in math today I think I may have experienced something similar. We were talking about Pascal's Triangle....well really we were talking about polynomials at the point where it happen. For some reason it was in math where it was the easiest for me to let things happen. To let my mind see before I saw. This was first with the exponents and their sums for each term in the sequence. I simply stopped looking for patterns, and saw. Later on that day, again with math, I let myself multiply and add and exponentiate in my head, instead of telling my mind to race for the solutions. I was finished with the homework much sooner than I should have been.

By skipping the step where I told myself to try and told myself to go quickly, my mind was not cluttered or confused by excess noise. I hummed and hawwed and smiled the whole while, letting myself simply do, and then I was done. And not only had I done much better, but I felt much better as well.

I feel that in those instances I was letting myself simply be. And when I did that everything else fell into place. Now I simply need to find my cottleston pie and let the Tiddely-Pom Principle take me to myself.