What Would I Do?

That’s what I would do …. I would wait.

One of my strongest memories of Hermann Hesse’s novel Siddhartha, is of a part where the character Siddhartha is asked what can he do … what skills does he have. And Siddhartha’s reply was:

I can fast,

I can think,

and I can wait.

Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse

And that has always stayed strongly with me ….

I can wait

and watch (the mind) …..

and the path will clarify and open up.