September 29, 2008
Somewhere East of Hite, Utah

In considering Everything Is Moving: No matter where we are in this world, no matter what our background or future direction, if we haven’t learned to relax, we haven’t learned a damn thing.

Seriously, this world/universe/reality is an extraordinary place, and if we haven’t found the time to sit back and marvel at it, I think we’re missing the point.

I’ve been places and I’ve met people, haven’t we all, and some people are more caught up with ‘doing things’ than others. It always blows my mind how self-important we all are sometimes, and how all the ‘things’ we have to do have become so important to us. I’m no different for the record. But this attitude is utter nonsense, there is very little that is actually all that important, aside from maybe saving a life, saving yourself, or maybe just making someone smile. All the rest is just hamster-wheel-circle-running-nonsense! Ha ha!

But I would say some things are pretty relevant, these being consciousness, awareness, stillness, simplicity, presence. (Now this is also only another opinion and we’ll see in one hundred years, let alone one week, where this opinion is.) These are the things that make life worth living, these are the things that allow us to simply LIVE… instead of that other thing we all call living, which is mostly just dying. We’ve all had our crises and our upsets, we’ve all had our hard times and breakdowns, but one sure-fire way to process all of these in my mind, is to simply stop. Stop. Don’t try to stop, just stop. Sit down, breath, look at the world around you, marvel, allow all that energy to flow through you, since it all going somewhere anyways so you might as well give it some direction, and ground it out. Stop and give it time to flow down into the ground.

I think this is what the other night was about for me, and the few days since. I was driving way too much that day and I arrived in a sleep spot just before dark, I was anxious, tired, tense and a ball of ‘bad’ energy. I had to make dinner, I had to write, I had to figure out what was wrong with the van, I had to, I had to, I had to… Stop.

So I did… and I sat under that endless expanse of night sky and realized that everything was moving. So I might as well just relax, and enjoy the show, instead of getting caught up in my own self-actualized pattern of energy.

peace,
d