Sunday, April 6, 2014

The Tao of Distance Running - # 40





Return is the movement of the Tao.
Yielding is the way of the Tao.
                                                       *



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We unfold as a grace of motion from a still, calm pool of being. This is
our true nature. We run - and in a length of miles return again to
the place of our unfolding.
In between there lays a
lifetime.


The path is meant to bring us home.




  • We don't fight the path - not of life and not the one we run. To yield is to find strength in the way things are within each present moment. Our strength lays not in fighting an immovable object or racing every hill. We yield outer force to return to the center of our being -where the nature of the self is to flow, abide and flow again. Efficiency over force is power. In this way we endure forever. 





Peace,
Eric


*Portion of the Tao Te Ching translated by Stephen Mitchell 

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