A Step - A Thought

Each step is like a thought - a pinpoint of activity within a vast stretch of ground and consciousness. The infinite remains unperturbed. Running is simply awareness given pause and then again a nod to motion. It's the flow of mind given form. We are not the step and we are not the thought - we are the ground of pure existence that allows the passing of their focus.

Peace,

Eric

Our Arrivial

Every step a letting go. It's how we travel. Each breath is eventually released. It's how we live. Running is the continuous gift of surrender.

It's how we arrive.

Peace,

Eric

Thoughts From A Rambling Run

Before the world was material fact - it was immaterial fiction dancing in the mind of something so much larger than ourselves. The world was thought into existence. Each of us come from this original mind - a thought flickered into being. We are still largely fiction. Our bodies mostly void save particles swirling worlds apart. Clearly we are something more. Perhaps this is what calls a runner to distance - the void exposed as our identity and reclaiming ourselves as infinite space. Running is our exposure. Labels are dropped as excess weight against the soul. Eventually we stand alone and unadorned - the universe in finite form.

Peace,

Eric 

Instructions To The Runner In The Rain

Offer no resistance - allow rain to be a

line against you.

And then slowly merge as

one.

~

These are the words that played through my mind as I ran through the rain today - instructions. Where the words came from I have no idea. But I suspect they were a message from the rain itself, or whispered from the clouds, or even farther than the reach of sky. What matters is that I heard - and offered a reply in return. Thank you, thank you, thank you. And indeed it seemed we merged as one.

Peace,

Eric

Worshipped

Indeed running is a prayer - a devotion told wordless to ground and air. Yet we too are caressed by devotion. The world stretched far to know our steps. The sky is endless to in its giving and reception of our breath. We are worshiped beyond thought and form. Running is an open dialogue - a prayer told and a prayer received.

Peace,

Eric

The Third Way

This is the third way - existing past the points of thought and form. Here, we run - yet more we extend an awareness of self found through breath and steps taken. It's the path of our creation . Running is just the act of remembrance - a familiar caress of who we are. The third way is not about arrival. It's the way of simply Being.

Peace,

Eric

At Once

This is the true experience of

running -

Bringing our awareness to finite points along the

infinite way.

~

It's like this - our awareness is limited in focus in order to streamline the infinite vision of our reality. We are literally all places at once. So with the fraction of a glance eternity will spread before us - inviting steps to follow. It's not what we see - it's what we know.

Peace,

Eric