Contribution & Adventure Trip Notes - Nothing is possible, and not difficult

I awoke this morning and realized it is Sunday. And 1 week from Day 3, Sunday, of a Landmark Forum in the Philippines. This week will be the 5th time that I will assist full time at a LF in the Philippines.

So when looking for a Context for today what came to me was "Nothing". Not your ordinary nothing, as in "what are you doing? Oh, nothing" meaning not anything particularly noteworthy. This Nothing is very noteworthy. It is the Nothing that allows for anything to arise and be possible in reality right now. The enlightened Nothing that all participants in the Landmark Forum experience on Sunday, Day 3 of their Landmark Forum.

But what I immediately had to deal with was my resistance to, or avoidance of Nothing. My inner voice said "oh Nothing is too hard, too significant, too big a thing to be in all day. You can't do that". So I told self "you've been in Nothing before, you can do it again". Then I noticed a fortune cookie fortune from the day before that had fallen onto the floor next to my bed. Picking it up I read it. It said," Nothing is impossible, only difficult". I corrected it to read:

"Nothing is impossible , or difficult". What I meant it to read is: Nothing is possible, and not difficult.

Then went out for my day. Wanted to fix my sandal so ask hotel manager lady where I can fix it (rather than I already know at the local market there should be a shoe repair guy). She directed me to Mr. Quickie shoe repair at a large shopping mall where I'm now posting this. The girls at Mr. Quickie (interestingly no men work at Mr. Quickie) loaned me a pair of chinellas (flip flops) while they quickly repaired my sandal.

Then I read my email. I got an email from June Paley a Landmark Introduction Leaders Program Weekend Leader. She has been coaching me by email. In part of her email in assisting me with an ongoing inquiry she asks me, "what are you committed to?" I had several immediate reactions or thoughts but still came up with "I don't know". This was immediately followed by "and I should know". I replied to her saying I would keep looking for what I'm committed to.

10 seconds later, the next email I read led me to a transformational essay by Laurence Platt on Living in I don't know:
http://laurenceplatt.home.att.net/wernererhard/livingin.html

Reading that inspiring essay I get the automatic & inauthentic phenomenon of the "and I should know" that follows my "I don't know". Then I'm suddenly free with my "I don't know" and I'm moved to tears by the experience of living life as an inquiry; just being with and bringing Nothing to "I don't know" allows for life to naturally and easily unfold. A profound access to Contribution and Adventure.

And an expression, or manifestation of the context of Nothing...