Thoughts…
I was at Aikido tonight and I had a thought. As soon as I had the thought a feeling, for a brief second, bubbled up inside of me. The thought was pertaining to the idea of love.
I thought of what it must feel like to actively love the universe. To love all things no matter how painful or insignificant. What it must feel like to practice this kind of love.
And then for a brief second I did.
Feeling this was vibratory. Soon I felt another thought invade, and my mental hand batted it away. Then sensei asked us to practice a new move with a partner and I lost the thought as I started to interact with someone else.
Is that how it has to be? Do we have to attain a level of contentment only to have it ripped away as we become embedded once again into the drama of other humans? (I <3 Huckabees)
I felt it on my own and I wanted to record it right now, right here, to have a futile digital mark proclaiming my brief entertainment with the power of pure being. Unfortunately in doing this blog entry I may have officially killed it.
“The Way that can be experienced is not true;
The world that can be constructed is not real.
The Way manifests all that happens and may happen;
The world represents all that exists and may exist.
To experience without abstraction is to sense the world;
To experience with abstraction is to know the world.
These two experiences are indistinguishable;
Their construction differs but their effect is the same.
Beyond the gate of experience flows the Way,
Which is ever greater and more subtle than the world.”
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
