New Year 2024: Be Water

Happy 2024, everyone. I spent the day doing the things I wish to increase in my life, which included writing in the new year. May 2024 be fresh, happy and free with this blessing from Bruce Lee, and a poetic response below....

"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

 

“Be Water, My Friend.”
©January 1, 2024 Karla Johnston, InnerConstellation.com

2024 blessing from Bruce Lee:
Blue sky,
clear Lake, like glass,
mirroring.
What are conditions that set the stage?
Knowing the answer, is intimacy with water.

Formless,
Shapeless,
Boundary-less.

Like love,
finding the low ground
to me,
where I stand upon the shore,
having turned away,
shutting off the valve,
stopping the flow.
Because—resistance has set in.
But love, like water, keeps flowing,
it cannot help but fill all the empty spots.  

2024, I commit, to honoring and tending my body,
giving myself conditions of nourishment.
When struggle arises, I stay with it and know—
awareness, like water,
allows compassion to flow.

2024, I commit, to honoring and tending my body-outside-my-body,
provide others with conditions of nourishment.
When suffering arises, I open to it, and know—
love, like water, actually cannot be stopped,
it’s a clear conduit
between us.