If you want your Tao to deliver the best, invest in loss, because more is less.
The orthodox slant on investment policy is only invest to make gains. The way of the contemporary urban warrior, by contrast, is to invest in loss. This is not to suggest the warrior is a sucker. Simply that, rather than invest your energy for a return in momentary gain, you invest in decreasing your self-image.
The more you increase your self-image, ie, the myth of who you are, what you do, what you own and what you want, the more unwieldy you become. By carrying that psycho-emotional junk in your travelling trunk, you lose mobility, flexibility and adaptability, and therefore freedom.
When you invest in loss of the myth of who you are, you reduce the load, thereby reducing wind-drag coefficient. This makes it easier for you to move freely from adventure and increases your chances of being in the right place at the right time for reality to work its full quota of magic on your behalf.
So, rather than expending vast sums of mental energy gripping on to all the elements that comprise your life-story, release your grip and let the Tao take the strain. When you allow the story to unfold on its own, thereby containing your energy, you can respond more effectively as events occur (like CNN news).
Visualise yourself as a pure, radiant being, with no baggage from the past of plans for the future.
What follows is the 'nobody' contemplation. It requires courage to perform as it constitutes an experiment with reality, playing with your sense of identity as it does.
