The Tao of Disatnce Running - #24

If you want to accord with the Tao,
just do your job, then let go.

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And now...only motion.
We have prepared in everyway for this
moment - when the stillness of
our being is given
flight.
With these wings we find our
stride and take to the path.


When it's time to run - we run.

• Once in motion - we are runners. There is simplicity in our actions and no need for additions given to our steps. We plan, we take the necessary actions to keep us in motion - and then we let go. This is our time and freedom waits for us to shed the layers of self that bind us to the daily grind. There is no self at the far end of running - we have lost it in the wake of steps given freely. Now we're running. Now we're alive as motion. Now we're beyond the need of doing - now we are truly being. 

Peace,

Eric

*Portion of the Tao Te Ching translated by Stephen Mitchell