So Here We Are In Bilbao
I absolutely love airports and flying in planes...
I love travelling...
I love this in between space...
It allows me to see the threads of where I am still attached to 'getting things done' and 'the time going too quickly' in my days when not on a plane...
Because what is the difference?
There is none.
I am essentially still doing the same things...
I got up to run this morning, and now I am answering emails and writing, but have absolutely no idea of the time or any attachment to how long anything is taking...
By changing context it is often possible for us to see where tension is hidden away, so subtle as to be part of our normal life...
We exist in multiple levels of context...
In each episode and with each different person we are with, different things are happening depending on the belief systems of the people involved..,
Everyone is bringing their family, social, cultural and spiritual beliefs into the mix and this is affecting the dynamic...
Somehow on a plane or in any travelling mode all of this - for me anyway - is suspended...
I am aware that for others, this is not the case; delays, crowds, flying itself is a context fraught with possible tension....
Which is why being reflective wherever we are, and noticing ourselves and what emerges in all of the different scenarios of our life, can lead us back to our true selves...
And this isn't just reflecting on the tension or the energy that feels heavy or negative within us, that has revealed itself for clearing....
This is also noticing our gold, the good the uplifting, the still and quiet...
If we notice where we find ourselves at peace, or in what activities we feel at ease... Then rather than seek to be in those places to find this feeling, or to need to doing those things that promote these feelings...
Instead our meditation is to really notice how it feels, what is the quality and essence of this still quiet peace...?
Because it is simply a window which opens us to the possibility that we can live this way in every moment...
And the same when we feel tense, it isn't about avoiding the people or situations that instigate this fear or stress... It is in releasing the stress, and finding the stillness...
Of course then our energy will naturally move away from the things that are not for our growth or ease and move us more naturally to those things that are...
But that will be the result of finding and resting in the inner balance and peace....
Doing the things that feel good can be a way to remember of course, a spoke to the hub of the core place of truth...
But if we seek to 'do those things' to 'get' the feeling, then they can become a distraction, a chimera...
The line is thin...
I know this from experience...
Running has been my salvation and my nemesis...
I allowed it to distract me at times from my true soul path, but in that space of being lead away by running my nemesis, it was in the running that I saw this, and so it became my salvation, my barometer to reveal to me my tension...
Yesterday when I ran 200 metres 8 times, I felt an aperture opening to immense power, not in an egocentric way, in a beyond way...
And I was reminded of this space that I have encountered on the run before...
It is often described as 'the zone', a place of flow...
Later...
We are on a big coach, just leaving Bilbao, which wasn't where we expected to be...!
We flew to Barcelona and then boarded a plane bound for San Sebastian; however high winds meant it wasn't safe to fly into the City, so here we are in Bilbao...
My day of a travel meditation, this in between space, has extended... !
This place of movement and not knowing; of accepting what is, reflecting for me the ultimate meditation of dropping between the spaces in our thoughts, into the still place in between, of not knowing...
Later still...
Fourteen hours after setting off, we have arrived...
I would suggest that anyone who wants a swift journey to a destination does not travel with me...!
