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Bodhisearcher
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 Posted - Sep 09 2007 : 12:02:05 PM
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So there you are paddling steadily and making careful “progress” or so the illusion appears,
when you find yourself being tossed around in rough water struggling to keep hold of the raft.
Sometimes forgetting, for more than a moment, that there ever was a raft.
You try remembering the methods learned to right the raft, you shift your weight to create balance keeping an eye out for the next set of rapids then hold on tight at the mercy of the flow and current that can send you crashing into more rocks or tip you out completely.
Its no good wishing you weren’t here because it aint gonna change the reality that now presents itself to you, only the natural course of the river can offer some respite and there must come a point in the course of the river when calm water returns and the journey can be enjoyed.
In the meantime you have to pay for every mistake you make; every lapse in concentration, every “reaction” in the wrong direction makes the whole journey that bit more difficult. You ask yourself how long can I hold on, how long will my energy sustain the struggle.
It would be easy to give up to let the river have its way; swallow you, batter you against the rocks and deliver you to the sea as fish food. But there are people depending on you, you made a commitment that you would not give up, so dig in, find out what is inside there, get up and fight.
And all the theory, all the class time learning about the condition of the river, the methods, the knowledge of how to cope; it’s all unreachable in the sub or unconscious mind. You haven’t got time right now to contemplate to make choices, the river can claim your life at any moment and all that’s left is heart, what kind of shape your heart is in.
So next time you put off the conditioning work, the training to put yourself in good shape you might learn from the practical experience that a rough water ride offers.
It can shine a light on all the aspects of your game that are weak, learn to swim so that when the raft gets washed away you might survive.
But be grateful that some one thought to build rafts.
This isn’t sport this is life.
Peace
Ciaran |
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Rough water; a letter to myself
