The only way to cut through the fog of chaos and hear the true meaning of the unknown practice is to be patient. The unknown information of the future comes to us slowly but at its own pace. When we move too quickly, this information becomes fuzzy, easy to miss, and even hard to understand. Of course, patience is not so easy. Waiting has been one of my greatest mentors in my cancer recovery. It has been my most difficult opponent and my most powerful ally. During my three most difficult years of seeking medical treatment, I faced difficult choices at every step, and only by waiting patiently could the final answer be revealed. In the long wait, I also became more and more grounded in the unknown world of free fall. We are born with patience and impatience. On the one hand, our growth is slow, on the other hand, life flies around like a hummingbird, flapping its wings incessantly even when suspended. And when our body and mind are united, it will be as if there is a mysterious combination lock, inside the precision of the heart one by one interlocked, something will be opened forever. Achieving mind-body unity -- body, mind, and heart moving at the same pace -- requires us to slow down, but we know that pace must be real. Real footsteps help us to pass through the fog of chaos and reveal to us the brilliance of spirituality and the energy of life. When our body, mind and heart slow down and work in concert, the gifts of patience are revealed to us. So how do we become more patient? When we start to speed up, we need to slow ourselves down and allow ourselves to move at this slow pace. When you notice that your heart is racing, use a cool head to slow yourself down. When your mind gets active, let your tired body help you slow down. The purpose of patience is to give our body, heart, and mind a pause until they are one and move forward with true, true steps. A little music and a few moments of silence may help us achieve unity. Practice faith in opportunity.

Practice faith in opportunity. That means following your heart. Opportunity is often just a small crack, so small that we wonder if we can fit the whole person into it. But this chasm may restore your health, may allow you to leave your lonely life of retreat and swim toward the ocean of love, and may allow us to lay down all our weapons (including the invisible ones) and humbly walk through the tunnel in front of us and embrace our true selves. Trust means returning to the earth, only in this way, we can squeeze through the small crack of opportunity, as long as we have the opportunity to practice trust. We must also become more humble, more true to who we are, and more open to the next break in opportunity. It may sound scary, but in reality, we often don't know what we have and what we can plant along the way until we are naked and exposed to opportunities. Until we can cast aside excuses and doubts and trust deeply, we will not know what part of ourselves has been quietly mature, our pain is hiding hidden hidden treasure. Opportunity never promises us an end or a respite from our anxiety about never achieving self-actualization. Opportunity gives us nothing but a clear spring in which our fish of soul can swim, and it is in this swim that we can wash away the things that are not important in the first place. The practice of courage is to do even the smallest things with love.

This was the motto of the Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. When we take apart the overwhelming enormity of things, we tend to start with a point, accumulating good deeds bit by bit, expressing the truth sentence by sentence. On the surface, the things that require our courage may seem indestructible, but once we take action, we're no longer just floating around on the outside. "The Beginning" allows us to see more of the truth and to have a clearer sense of the pulse of the situation we are about to cross. A little love - driven action can naturally tell us what the next step should be. So, you don't have to rehearse to get to your final goal, just get started. When our hearts are free from fear, we must do the little things with love, so that even when we are afraid, the power of love will be at our reach. For example, you can bring love to feed your dog, make a cup of coffee for your loved one, or hold the door for an elderly person who dawdles from the parking lot on a rainy day. The world is our field of practice. Doing small things with love is how we take care of each other. Along the way, doing small things with love also releases our courage. Each of our small acts of kindness leads our actions to greater things. It turns out that doing small things with love is the real face of courage. I tell myself to "be courageous" whenever I feel a bit cowardly. I don't mean to adjust myself to my "best state," but to open up to who I am. If we open up, courage will flow in. We must do the little things with love, so that even when we are afraid, its power will be at our fingertips. The discipline of connection lies in being present and listening. When we feel a lack of connection, the presence and listening of others helps us to return to the wider space. When it comes to listening, the difference between introverts and extroverts is basically the direction of our attention, whether we naturally turn outward or inward when we listen. Just as someone is left handed and someone is right handed, having one tendency is an advantage, and having the other is an undeveloped ability, neither good nor bad. But the connected discipline is that it invites us to perfect a tendency that is not our natural inclination. Culture can also be divided into extroverted culture and introverted culture. Buddhist statues in Eastern cultures often have their eyes closed, symbolizing attunement to the inner world; In Western cultures, ancient Greek or Roman statues often have their eyes open, symbolizing attunement to the outside world. But to live passionately and consciously, we need both. Everyday life is a workshop where we integrate our extroverted and introverted attention. Daily chores require us to take care of, but performing these tasks doesn't necessarily help us stay connected. More and more, our lives become problem-oriented, like going to the doctor, fixing our car, mowing the lawn, or trying to repair our broken connection to life. We do the dishes and tell ourselves we need to settle down, but all I have to do is focus on the act of doing the dishes and I settle down right away. If we don't stay connected in the minutiae of life, our frustration and sense of disorientation can hurt others. If we want to feel present, we might as well be caring for others. When we are able to be caring, our soul is replenished. I, like everyone else, am still working hard on this discipline. When I feel disconnected, my only thought is to try to open my heart to the teachings that may be waiting for me. I believe that each person's presence brings me a message of maturity, and that when we are able to practice presence and listening, whether we do it perfectly or not, we will find ourselves already feeling the wisdom of connection flowing through us. Just a few days ago, I suddenly wanted to pull out some of the tools my father used before he died. He left a chisel, a T-square and an awl. When it became too hard to accept that my father was dead, I would pick up the tools he had left behind and hold them in my hands. We can listen to what's in my hand, and when we touch something that someone else has touched, it sends us a message. This information is not language, but a perception emanating from the moment the language takes place. These four disciplines will lead us to the fifth discipline called "Explore -- Master -- Leave", a discipline that we will continue to become fascinated with as time goes on. In our long life, we are constantly starting, discovering, growing and maturing. Practice makes perfect, and then we often abandon our already skilled skills and start over. No matter what we learn, the beginning of the magical feeling is incomparable. In exploration, we are curious and excited about the unknown, energized as never before, and then dive in, religiously, and in the process develop a mastery of a skill, an understanding, a discipline or a relationship. The physical and mental engagement will bring about a transformation in our lives, and gradually we will become some kind of authority. But if we stay in the position of so-called authority, sooner or later we will become numb. There is no denying that a skill is useful, but our mind needs to be constantly learning and living. The mind is not satisfied that it has become an authority in any field, it needs to be a constant verification of its natural gifts.

The only way to cut through the fog of chaos and hear the true meaning of the unknown practice is to be patient. The unknown information of the future comes to us slowly but at its own pace. When we move too quickly, this information becomes fuzzy, easy to miss, and even hard to understand. Of course, patience is not so easy. Waiting has been one of my greatest mentors in my cancer recovery. It has been my most difficult opponent and my most powerful ally. During my three most difficult years of seeking medical treatment, I faced difficult choices at every step, and only by waiting patiently could the final answer be revealed. In the long wait, I also became more and more grounded in the unknown world of free fall. We are born with patience and impatience. On the one hand, our growth is slow, on the other hand, life flies around like a hummingbird, flapping its wings incessantly even when suspended. And when our body and mind are united, it will be as if there is a mysterious combination lock, inside the precision of the heart one by one interlocked, something will be opened forever. Achieving mind-body unity -- body, mind, and heart moving at the same pace -- requires us to slow down, but we know that pace must be real. Real footsteps help us to pass through the fog of chaos and reveal to us the brilliance of spirituality and the energy of life. When our body, mind and heart slow down and work in concert, the gifts of patience are revealed to us. So how do we become more patient? When we start to speed up, we need to slow ourselves down and allow ourselves to move at this slow pace. When you notice that your heart is racing, use a cool head to slow yourself down. When your mind gets active, let your tired body help you slow down. The purpose of patience is to give our body, heart, and mind a pause until they are one and move forward with true, true steps. A little music and a few moments of silence may help us achieve unity. Practice faith in opportunity.

Practice faith in opportunity. That means following your heart. Opportunity is often just a small crack, so small that we wonder if we can fit the whole person into it. But this chasm may restore your health, may allow you to leave your lonely life of retreat and swim toward the ocean of love, and may allow us to lay down all our weapons (including the invisible ones) and humbly walk through the tunnel in front of us and embrace our true selves. Trust means returning to the earth, only in this way, we can squeeze through the small crack of opportunity, as long as we have the opportunity to practice trust. We must also become more humble, more true to who we are, and more open to the next break in opportunity. It may sound scary, but in reality, we often don't know what we have and what we can plant along the way until we are naked and exposed to opportunities. Until we can cast aside excuses and doubts and trust deeply, we will not know what part of ourselves has been quietly mature, our pain is hiding hidden hidden treasure. Opportunity never promises us an end or a respite from our anxiety about never achieving self-actualization. Opportunity gives us nothing but a clear spring in which our fish of soul can swim, and it is in this swim that we can wash away the things that are not important in the first place. The practice of courage is to do even the smallest things with love.

This was the motto of the Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. When we take apart the overwhelming enormity of things, we tend to start with a point, accumulating good deeds bit by bit, expressing the truth sentence by sentence. On the surface, the things that require our courage may seem indestructible, but once we take action, we're no longer just floating around on the outside. "The Beginning" allows us to see more of the truth and to have a clearer sense of the pulse of the situation we are about to cross. A little love - driven action can naturally tell us what the next step should be. So, you don't have to rehearse to get to your final goal, just get started. When our hearts are free from fear, we must do the little things with love, so that even when we are afraid, the power of love will be at our reach. For example, you can bring love to feed your dog, make a cup of coffee for your loved one, or hold the door for an elderly person who dawdles from the parking lot on a rainy day. The world is our field of practice. Doing small things with love is how we take care of each other. Along the way, doing small things with love also releases our courage. Each of our small acts of kindness leads our actions to greater things. It turns out that doing small things with love is the real face of courage. I tell myself to "be courageous" whenever I feel a bit cowardly. I don't mean to adjust myself to my "best state," but to open up to who I am. If we open up, courage will flow in. We must do the little things with love, so that even when we are afraid, its power will be at our fingertips. The discipline of connection lies in being present and listening. When we feel a lack of connection, the presence and listening of others helps us to return to the wider space. When it comes to listening, the difference between introverts and extroverts is basically the direction of our attention, whether we naturally turn outward or inward when we listen. Just as someone is left handed and someone is right handed, having one tendency is an advantage, and having the other is an undeveloped ability, neither good nor bad. But the connected discipline is that it invites us to perfect a tendency that is not our natural inclination. Culture can also be divided into extroverted culture and introverted culture. Buddhist statues in Eastern cultures often have their eyes closed, symbolizing attunement to the inner world; In Western cultures, ancient Greek or Roman statues often have their eyes open, symbolizing attunement to the outside world. But to live passionately and consciously, we need both. Everyday life is a workshop where we integrate our extroverted and introverted attention. Daily chores require us to take care of, but performing these tasks doesn't necessarily help us stay connected. More and more, our lives become problem-oriented, like going to the doctor, fixing our car, mowing the lawn, or trying to repair our broken connection to life. We do the dishes and tell ourselves we need to settle down, but all I have to do is focus on the act of doing the dishes and I settle down right away. If we don't stay connected in the minutiae of life, our frustration and sense of disorientation can hurt others. If we want to feel present, we might as well be caring for others. When we are able to be caring, our soul is replenished. I, like everyone else, am still working hard on this discipline. When I feel disconnected, my only thought is to try to open my heart to the teachings that may be waiting for me. I believe that each person's presence brings me a message of maturity, and that when we are able to practice presence and listening, whether we do it perfectly or not, we will find ourselves already feeling the wisdom of connection flowing through us. Just a few days ago, I suddenly wanted to pull out some of the tools my father used before he died. He left a chisel, a T-square and an awl. When it became too hard to accept that my father was dead, I would pick up the tools he had left behind and hold them in my hands. We can listen to what's in my hand, and when we touch something that someone else has touched, it sends us a message. This information is not language, but a perception emanating from the moment the language takes place. These four disciplines will lead us to the fifth discipline called "Explore -- Master -- Leave", a discipline that we will continue to become fascinated with as time goes on. In our long life, we are constantly starting, discovering, growing and maturing. Practice makes perfect, and then we often abandon our already skilled skills and start over. No matter what we learn, the beginning of the magical feeling is incomparable. In exploration, we are curious and excited about the unknown, energized as never before, and then dive in, religiously, and in the process develop a mastery of a skill, an understanding, a discipline or a relationship. The physical and mental engagement will bring about a transformation in our lives, and gradually we will become some kind of authority. But if we stay in the position of so-called authority, sooner or later we will become numb. There is no denying that a skill is useful, but our mind needs to be constantly learning and living. The mind is not satisfied that it has become an authority in any field, it needs to be a constant verification of its natural gifts.