This is a hard podcast to summarize. It is possible that it’s very form embodies the trickster archetype in that we set a boundary then disrupt it! Broadly speaking, we explore the process of “heroically overcoming the wounds of the psyche” which requires some wily behavior on our parts! So much of how we perceive the world depends on our earliest attachments, whether we wrestle and struggle or whether we find freedom. Often walking in “the way” is a balance of both.

One of my favorite analogies Bill has given over the years about the hopes his teachings will accomplish is the well. He has said that we can dig ten wells ten feet deep, or we can dig one well a thousand feet deep…there all the waters run together. Can we deepen our spiritual practice, our relationship to the world, so that we experience ourselves among the waters that run together? Interconnectiviy is “the way” of reality. Freedom is in finding the balance between individualism and community, between struggle and freedom, constantly redefining the edges! Be like the trickster, who continually presses against and refines the boundaries in service of making the world a better place.

From the Tao te Ching as interpreted by Ursula K LeGuin:

#25
There is something
that contains everything. Before heaven and earth
it is.
Oh, it is still, unbodied, all on its own, unchanging,
all-pervading, ever-moving.
So it can act as the mother of all things.
Not knowing its real name, we only call it the Way.
If it must be named,
let its name be Great.
Greatness means going on,
going on means going far,
and going far means turning back.
So they say: “The Way is great, heaven is great,
earth is great,
and humankind is great;
four greatnesses in the world, and humanity is one of them.”
People follow earth, earth follows heaven,
heaven follows the Way, the Way follows what is.

Be Great without being attached to greatness. Then you will be walking in the Way.

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