Through Motion

Through motion:

it's all a letting go - although some moments so gentle in their surrender they pass with little notice. Yet everything still is given to change, not lasting past their subtle instant of expression. Life is always known through motion. 

some moments are so drastic in consequence that we immediately sense their implications. A change so sudden that life is instantly altered in its course. With this it feels less a letting go than a force of action, an important, cherished aspect of our lives taken by a storm. There is no real preparation for this change, no practice to make us suffer less in response. 

we are simply left with the presence of our pain. 

but even our sorrow is changing in the very moment it's received, already shifting to another point of notice, not quite the same in the quality of its expression. Grief too is known through motion. There is no role for us to play through any of this; we are not active in surrender, nor welcoming to whatever arrives next. It all happens on its own, a course of life free of our wishes and demands.

we are participants through motion. 

this isn't as fatalistic as it first may sound; that there is little done to free us from grief and fear, doomed to sorrow and great suffering. Loss will certainly happen to us all. Death is always present in its promise. There is no escape from any aspect of life and this includes its many forms of sorrow and even its conclusion. Yet none of this happens to us, we are not caught helpless in any storm. We are the very essence of this change, life through and through, windswept as well as every storm's breeze. We are this motion, shifting too with every moment of surrender.

we're life,

in every expression. 

~

Peace, Eric