Great thoughts and ideas flood to me when I am training. I need to train in order to maintain well being, health and positive flow. Recently, I was injured in a car accident and have been spiraling downward without my training routines, partners and places. But I am not the type to give up; not after everything I’ve not given up on so far.
My pursuits are many-sided but the goal of all of them is the same: Go with the flow and move with people who aspire to do the same.
Training helps to discipline me to do this: to bring the light of right movement regardless of whether or not people understand where it’s coming from or what it means.
Without the ability to move as I’m used to, I sit and watch my buddies train. It brings me peace to see that they can do what I must temporarily take leave from. It makes me feel good to know that there are others like me — a different sort of person who vibrates at a higher frequency, so to say. Training with right intention, every day, makes right light brighter.
I do not wish to dwell on what I’m missing (as I would be missing the point entirely if I did), so I raise my chin, stretch and start my work.
At a job today, a great thought came to me: I bring my training ground with me wherever I go and in whatever I do. The sweet science is an applied science, after all. To bring my skills to light is what I am here to do. So step by step, as I cleaned, I thought my way into a new way of thinking.
So I train my mind while my body heals. My mind heals my body in the process, working out in a different way. This is the goal of the real spiritual warrior: to move and flow like water, yielding to all obstacles, never attaching him or herself to stagnancy.
I pay even more attention to detail. As I moved slower than usual while cleaning, my intention took on new meaning. The home owner, the home and the cleaner got an impromptu spiritual makeover, a wonderful cleansing. My mind felt fortified with new conviction; to use what I have learned in a way that will make me even more humble and uninhibited in my efforts when I return to the higher physical levels of training.
Thinking outside the box is the only way to see the bigger picture. To stay in a small mind mentality (to not think outside the box) creates a false reality. To only live within the parameters of well-established “rightness” is to say to yourself that you are better than those who aren’t “right” like you. Ego loves to judge and incites riots of comparison of all sorts.
Fear, doubt, insecurity or what have you — all those self-indulgent rides in ego land — are all products of thinking inside the box. Thinking only within one’s comfort zones, and judging everyone who does not “get it”, is an example of being trapped in the box.
I realize now that I have had a tendency to reserve my “thinking outside the box” training for specific situations, places, times, and with specific people — expecting specific results. Comfort zones are necessary, but I do not feel any comfort in ego anymore.
Ego always disappoints. It’s like if a person trained only for the purpose of kicking a specific person’s ass. It’s all ego.
Being singularly focused on such a base level goal trains ego to become stronger, more dominating and, worst of all, snuffs the light the enlightened hope to bear.
There is nothing wrong with having an ego. It’s where some very interesting questions are posed. But having seen past my own small world view, I let my spirit answer ego’s questions, thereby taking ego’s power away. The spirit is like the all-knowing parent and the ego, like a spoiled rotten child having a tantrum. The spirit calmly guides the mind out of tantrum mode with loving discipline, like good parents and fighters do everywhere.
The mind creates the box and can “un-create” it too. Imagine pouring water into a box; filling it up. The box might take a while to completely bust at the sides, but it eventually and inevitably will. The spirit — metaphorically the water — will persevere when the ego — the metaphorical box — erodes and decays under the weight of reality.
Schrodinger’s Cat is out of the bag.
I have let myself out of my own bag — the closed-minded club — once and for all, and although I feel sort of lonely for my old closed-minded ways, which have been engendered and entrained into me for years, I feel free again. I am applying what I have learned from leaving my old ways behind — acknowledging that I am choosing to do this — and applying it to my life’s work.
I am in complete control over how I conduct my life. This makes my light bigger and I cannot help but share it.
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