Floor mop

How quickly we descend into darkness sometimes, but sometimes, just as quickly, a way beyond it, a resolution, a point of insight is revealed.

Sometimes, it is revealed in the most unlikely of places by the most ordinary and unseemly messengers.

This time it was a floor mop.

You hold the mop in your hands and driving it along the floor, you watch how it directs the soapy water, how it moves along the tile-lined floor. You realize that if you try to do it your way, to force your direction into it, you scatter the soap into all sorts of directions and end up defeating your purpose. But when you listen to the moment and yield to the flow of the water, and let the mop follow this will ... what arises is an energy not reducible to each but actually arising because of the joining of each.

Yes ... thy will be done.