The Yoga of Distance Running - Verse 1:7

The wise man lets go of all

results, whether good or bad,

and is focused on the action alone.

Yoga is skill in actions

                                                                (Bhagavad Gita 2:50)

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Beyond our stride - only

steps yet taken.

And further still is no

concern.


We give ourselves to every step...and let go with each one taken.

• Results follow action. In running our singular focus is on a step. Our stride is what follows as each step is taken and then let go. Perfection is allowed. Yet if we were to judge and hold each step in scrutiny - there would be no action. Our stride would falter from the start. A larger point still is that we ourselves are but one step in an infinite stride taken by the Self. Action is taken through us - a step does not judge itself, it becomes the stride by its surrender - and by our letting go we become once more the Self in our arrival.     

Peace,

Eric

*Verse 2:50 translated by Stephen Mitchell