Just Go With It!

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”  ~ Rumi

It is rather naive to assume each day will, or should, be bright and happy. It should be common knowledge at this point that there is nothing without everything; sad balances happy.. death balances life, and so on… nothing is separate…..  We can’t escape this perpetual condition.  Even the geometry of space relies on vector equilibrium all the way up and down the scales of magnification…

Although balancing rocks also balances a messy mind, I surely get tangled in thought from time to time like most I know…. worrying about random things.  irrational imaginings…. however, the key is a lesson I learned from snowboarding and skateboarding actually…  Those moments when you look down a mountain and overcome the fear of flowing with it… the flow requires pure presence in the moment to achieve enjoyment while maintaining a relative degree of safety at high speeds….  The lesson being to LET GO of that fear. Go with the moment… A crucial skill for LIFE. When I go and balance it is often a way to let go of thought very easily… there is a similar pattern of letting go as a complicated balance is realized, especially with heavy rocks… sometimes I become at the mercy of the rocks as large weights and tensions disallow me to “rewind” or rethink. After a certain point, it is just me and the moment.  if the moment is not engaged fully, It can lead to sudden collapse and potential injury.  Same concept with bombing a hill on a snowboard.  You are either all into the moment or increasingly vulnerable to injury.

If letting go is not learned and practiced in life, I imagine it will not be easy to let go at the unpredictable moment of death.  One of the biggest wastes of energy I have found is consciously trying to protect myself from pain or sadness… simply FLOW.. the more we grasp and attach ourselves to ideas and things, the closer to disappointment we become…