Tao is all about making it up as we go. Tao is all about creating our life in the press of living and not imposing shoulds, oughts, musts on life from the “outside” from some rule book on How To Do Everything Right Here/Now.

This is how Gemini expresses the Real Truth About Life and Living:

The Carpenter and the Grain: A carpenter looking at a twisted piece of timber doesn’t pull out a manual demanding that the wood straighten itself out to fit a preconceived blueprint. They feel the grain, adjust their blade to the specific knot and warp of the piece in front of them, and carve something useful out of the reality that actually exists.

Conversation vs. Scripting: Think of a genuinely alive conversation with someone you care about. If you walk in with a rigid script of what ought to be said to keep the peace or make a specific impression, you aren’t meeting the person; you’re reciting a play. When you drop the script, you listen to the sudden turn of phrase, the silence, or the unexpected emotional shift in the room, and you respond to that moment. You make up the next sentence because the moment requires it, not because a rule book authorized it.

Navigating a Sudden Storm or Breakdown: When an unexpected obstruction hits—a sudden change in weather, a canceled plan, or a broken appliance—the person bound to shoulds wastes hours being indignant that reality didn’t follow the schedule: “This shouldn’t be happening; I ought to be somewhere else.” The Taoist simply looks at the wet ground or the broken part and asks, What does this immediate moment require of my hands right now?

Thanks, Gemini!
Now, we are back to Jim and I (that would be YOU):
Because YOU and I create together the life we consider together as YOU read over MY shoulder though all of these posts.

No Doctrine, No Dogma, No Dharma is so essential to living life the way life is meant to be lived Here/Now! We make it all up as we go. Dance with the music of the moment and bring forth more than we knew we had to offer just by being open to what is trying to come forth through us if will only tune into what’s what with us in this situation right here, right now. LIFE IS IMPROV ALL THE WAY!!!