June 27, 2026  

The Hailstorm Was the Door

There is a kind of exhaustion that has nothing to do with how much sleep you got. It comes from gripping. From rehearsing what you are going...

There is a kind of exhaustion that has nothing to do with how much sleep you got.

It comes from gripping. From rehearsing what you are going to say. From managing how things look. From spending energy on outcomes you cannot control and resisting realities you cannot change.

Most of us know that feeling. We just do not always know what to do with it.

This Sunday we close a four-week exploration of Taoism with a message called Tranquil But Unceasing. It begins with a ribbon of brown water at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, and what that water has been quietly teaching for millions of years.

It includes a hailstorm that turned out to be an open door.

A Bruce Lee interview from 1971 that still has something to say.

And the story of a woman whose life fell completely apart in the front seat of someone's pickup truck, and what happened when she stopped fighting it.

The ancient Taoists had a word for the kind of action that flows without friction, that moves without inner resistance, that participates without strain. It turns out Ernest Holmes was pointing at the same thing.

Come find out what water knows that the rest of us keep forgetting.

Sunday, June 28 | 9 and 11 am | Center for Spiritual Living, Santa Rosa or on YouTube