It's Not So Difficult

Beyond comparisons - it's the mind that frees the body. It's the silence between thoughts that frees the mind. Our truth is the center. Directionless. In the refusal to follow thought we become empty of all save reality. Our steps know nothing of difficulty - only motion and its pause. Adding thought to the equation creates the duality of conditions. Believing these thoughts split our world in two. Just run. Allow all things to pass. Be witness to inner commentary. Believe and don't believe. And distance will flow on its own accord.

Peace,

Eric

Truth. Lies And The Tao Of Running

Nothing exist. Yet our thoughts and flesh say otherwise. And that is the subtle message of reality. Everything is a finite truth within the infinite expansion of spirit. Knowing this is freedom. We are beyond the judgment of existence. And so we play. For those who run - distance is the echo of a single step. We see the infinite spread from this moment. Running is simply the pleasure of awareness as the echo fades to the illusion of a finish. The anguish and glory, elation and defeat  - all rules within the game. They're ours to change or cherish to our choosing. They are real only for the briefness of a moment. This is the truth of the Tao - and yet even this is false in its statement. So simply play the game and run.

Enjoy (or not)

Peace,

Eric

A Mobius Path

A Mobius path - our steps along a singular reality seen unique from their perspective. Run from the center. Be grounded by earth and air and our connection to both. Have faith in the flight of imagination. In the fluidity of existence everything belongs and nothing falls from order. Things simply are. This is how we run with the Tao: We can suffer and enjoy, find bliss in our discomfort, see eternity within a single moment and know each step is both are first and last. We run in the allowance of all things - free from our demands.

Peace,

Eric

Don't Know

Don't know - and in this uncertainty we

find the promise held by

distance.

Our every step is full of wonder.

~

In Zen the "don't know" mind is the state of pure potentiality  - not only do we not have answers but our questions are asked only to lead us more into mystery. That's why we run. It's an open-ended question of how much we may give ourselves to distance at any moment. How open are we to receive the fullness of earth with each step and the breadth of sky on every breath. We don't know - yet with every step we ask these questions.

Peace,

Eric

From This Point

From this point - the

infinite.

And every step after.

~

We are an experience of the infinite. From this regard - running is the self caress of existence.

Enjoy.

Peace,

Eric

Shifting Perspective

On it's own accord - motion exist as an invitation to be joined in a marriage of spirit and form. It's a unique state of union. Motion is a shift of perspective of our existence - stillness carried through distance with a keen awareness that we are both states at once. In the singularity of our Being we are all things and stillness and motion coincide as distinct aspects of our pure expression. When we are able to make this inner nod towards motion - stillness acts in harmony within the framework of our creative whole. Nothing is lost and running becomes an art form of shifting awareness. It's the true gift of running with spirit.

Peace,

Eric

Running To Tao

More than distance - our truth, beauty and mystery offered in reflection. Running is the exploration of self given solid form. We seek a path only for convenience of body and to break the flight of mind. The path brings us intimate to the ground of our existence. We are spacious and yet as well we are earth and bone and flesh.

Running shows us who we are.

But only in the depth beyond appearance.

Peace,

Eric