August 28, 2024
One Week Remains
In a week I shall step out into the world once again. Infinite possibilities swirl and bloom as potentialities begin to take shape in this manifest world. As I prepare to once again journey into the unknown, excitement and fantastical feelings take hold. I get to choose who I step forward as. Shall I choose kindness and compassion as my guides or do I unconsciously allow old patterns to run their course? The beauty of this life stems from the fact that we get to choose. Having been shown consciousness and settling on my awareness of awareness, I choose the former. I have always been “lucky” and I’m beginning to see how my path has been laid out before me, leading me inextricably toward the future.
While unknowns and doubts mingled with fears presume to take their place in my awareness, I understand that these are byproducts of absentmindedness and fantasy. These feelings live in past experiences attempting to produce a knowable future, but that’s not where life truly exists. The only real “work” that I do, the only actual activity I participate in is the frequent reminding of myself to come back to the present moment, the only real time that exists. To experience the Now as it truly is becomes all that really needs “doing.” Little by little I remove the lenses of ego (I am a yoga teacher, I am a son, I am a victim, I am this or that or the other…) so that I may experience reality as it is, not as I project it to be. This is the work. Experiencing this life through the unfiltered senses is the gift of life itself.
As I prepare for my trip to Mexico and then to South America, I am doing my best to wrap up my time here at home in Colorado. Spending time with friends and family is so clearly important. I’ve been resting here for nearly a year, integrating the lessons I learned from my previous five year adventure and learning balance through groundedness in the temple of the body. The time for rest is nearly complete as one chapter concludes and another begins.
First I embark to Isla de Mujeres near Cancun in Mexico to teach at the Kootenay Yoga School with my Soul Sister Sarah. When I taught with Sarah in Joshua Tree, my path was so clearly illuminated to my Dharma or Soul’s Purpose to be a guide for others to realize the nature of reality for themselves. I couldn’t think of a better way to begin this next chapter. I am so truly grateful for this opportunity to step into the Man I know I’m destined to become. I’ve had glimpses and sensations of this future version of myself in meditation which I’ve called in, and now is the time to become that future version of myself in the Now. I have no doubt that I will be called once again to share my gifts with the world while on this adventure. I release the how of it all and trust in the unfolding of events (whether “good” or “bad”) that I am evolving into the Being I was born to be.
After Mexico my plan is to travel to Costa Rica to visit one of my best friends who chose to leave behind the trappings of modern society in search of his Dharma. I have a deep sense that I’m meant to help guide him on his path as well, not knowing what that looks like, but simply to show up authentically and in the flow of life. Events will unfold naturally from this place of contentment. Surely some exploration of Costa Rica will be in order and then at some point I will be called to move on. Several synchronicities (meaningful coincidences) have highlighted Peru as a likely next step for a variety of reasons. I also have a latent calling to experience Argentina, knowing that this place has is linked to my future as well.
So there we have it. My intentions laid out with no specific timeline and a purposeful relinquishing of expectations. I don’t need to know the How or the When of it all. I trust in the Universe (the Divine, Pure Consciousness, or God, whichever label one would choose to place here) to lead me where I’m meant to go while also providing the connections and means to do so. I am open to possibilities. I feel the Love and Gratitude at the center of my Being and step forth into the world from this place of compassion and joy.
Once again, I know not where I am going or what may happen, all I do know is that I will never be the same.