Air (cont')

Soft rain, nice light. Riding the momentum of the previous weeks rides. Getting the breath in deep, finding that rhythm where the body calls for the next breath in its own rhythm.

Agression and sharp awareness seem rather close.

Staying with the breath.

Breath & Air

Working a bit with the air element.

Breath as the conduit, air as merged with space, delicate, sustaining energy.

Breathing through, as part of the system (like water to a river), but not the system itself. The karmic residues are there in a more subtle form.

Not the ending of time, just yet, still movement, a space for the arisings. Healing container, alive, connected to the specific, and universal.

The air inside the cup and the air outside the cup, not so different. Breathing in, breathing out.

Threads

Considering continuity and threads, distraction is what? Moving into the object of awareness? Non-distraction is what? Staying with the awareness itself? Non-duality is what? Realizing the non-division between subject and object?Staying with is what? Staying with contemplations closer to reflecting awareness?

The late Zen master Suzuki Roshi, author of, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind wrote: “Nothing exists but momentarily in its present form and color. One thing flows into another and cannot be grasped. Before the rain stops we hear a bird. Even under the heavy snow we see snowdrops and some new growth.” All things are in constant flux. As the tulips wither, the irises emerge.

Returning

Re-turning,
remembering,
that ground,
that place of,
letting go and releasing back,
into,
the gravity,
coupled with awareness,
that re-arises,
always once,
again.