In Our Absence

No thing.

No one.

And still there is

awareness...

~

There is power in absence. In the absence of a viewer - there is only the view. And we are equal in its beauty. Without a runner we too are stretched as distance with nothing found beyond our reach. There is no self found separate from the source.

In the absence of beliefs - we are.

Peace,

Eric

Running Transparently

In this great transparency - the path becomes

beneath our steps.

And every thought revealed as

its creator.

~

Relax - and the path unfolds without effort. There are hills to climb and streams to cross. There always are. It's perfect. Even if we think otherwise. Yet beneath the wave of thought is a clear and steady pool of being. Run from here. Create from here. We become transparent - and the path reflects perfection.

Peace,

Eric

On Being Trackless

trackless -and the path holds no memory

beyond the step now

taken

~

Running is the expression of the present moment as told by steps. We are free to allow the experience to be the simplicity earth and step meeting new or to carry the reminder of steps taken once before. Either way the reality remains awareness of the present moment.

It's our choice on where we focus.

Peace,

Eric

Only Here

It's all right here - the step is taken

only in the mind.

And thoughts unfold as

distance.

~

If running is viewed only as a point of achievement, as a means of arrival to somewhere other than where we are - we will find ourselves less than who we are. Or better put - we won't find ourselves at all. Running is the great unveiling. Distance strips us to the essential moment of awareness - one step making contact to the earth holds the world. The infinite begins, holds and ends here. The rest is just joyful travel. Enjoy.

Peace,

Eric

The No Attainment Of Running

There is no attainment.

We dream of absence in a sleep of
shared delusions.

Waking to a false dawn that
holds all distance.

And yet...no day begins with
settled borders.

This is our time to
awaken.

A true dawn of no attainment.

Only moments yielding to the constant
flow...of what is always
present.

~

It certainly seems as if we attain something - miles, a sense of accomplishment, or even the allusive sense of peace. Yet they fade. Even medals eventually rust. It comes back to the simplicity of running - we give all kinds of easy answers to the question of why we devote ourselves to distance - and the answer always remains the easiest one and yet the one that we're unable to articulate in any reasonable way. We run - to give ourselves away.

Not to get a single thing.

But for a certain length of time and distance - we run to know the emptiness of only motion. In this we find there is truly no attainment.

Nothing can be absent from

our touch.

Peace,

Eric

Seamless

Running is an invitation to a world that knows both ground and sky. Each step is a bridge of intimate connections - earth touched and at once gifted back to air. Seamless.

Peace,

Eric

To Find Our Own Perfection

we find our own perfection in broken

parts along the way.

trusting in the space that

binds them

~

If we run far enough - something within us will break. Ego, will and even faith will flee. We are left with nothing. And there we find our own perfection. Everything of the world will break. It's the first truth of Buddha and the law of impermanence. It's a known fact for runners. We break. Yet still we carry on. Here's what we find: there is something more, ineffable and light bearing behind the solidness of mind and will. To break is to allow. It's to reveal. We are that which waits behind the wall of self. If we run far enough, long enough, if we break and continue past the hold of mind and body - we find nothing. Just the space that holds are own perfection.

Peace,

Eric