The TAO Of Daniel: DARKNESS

We’ve all heard of such things as dark matter and of ‘the void’.

Every day we see the night sky, midnight black, not knowing if the light will come again. The sun signals a temporary end, the moon it’s inevitable return.

And so what sense can be made of the darkness? If it is indeed ‘a part of life’ then what role does it play?

Externally, the darkness is an absence; it relinquishes our seeing, takes away certain spaces and opportunities, and hides the colourful, abundant world away inside a black cape. Internally, however, it is at night, and within such ‘absences’, that parts of ourselves can truly come alive.

In this sense, the Tao encourages all human parts to emerge and express themselves when the time is right.

Whether it’s the poet that comes out whilst drinking a glass of wine, only at night, or the parents whose nights are for fun, feastful family time.

We each have struggles unique to our own lives, often characterised by ‘the dark’: a stressful working life, a haunting past revealed only after hours, secret sexual desires etc etc.

Escaping these parts will not resolve them. Denying their existence also doesn’t help. Often the only way OUT of something so fundamental to our human nature is to go THROUGH it.

By facing the darkness we become to it, and we become to ourselves through it. Paradoxically, we might find that there’s a great deal of light there even; more light than we ever could’ve imagined.

Right there and then, the day and night, the internal and external aspects of our lives become one. The Tao finds it’s way’, it’s eternal balance, in the meeting of such opposites…

…and he/she finds her way always through the (re)discovering of the Tao.

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