this should be fun.....

Depending on one's circumstance, retreat may be the best route to stillness. Balance-keeping along the way is it's own reward until one begins to slip-back into unnecessary defense. Is a progressive edge of some sort what keeps balance rewarding? What sort of subtle discernment does this degree of practice require? If retreat is best, how do we trust beyond our comfort zone when risk grows uncontainably, and the risk-mind is overwhelmed? What continuity of faith precedes and follows risk-events toward stillness?

Healthy Traffic

If I feel ready there must be others burdened by their thoughts and experience of hyper-life in the transmission zone. I cringe to consider how the cell phone has become an avenue of constant communication for some. Somehow I justify my own surplus of webhours as necessary research. After all, do we have an alternative for the pursuit of global good?

Sometimes I'm afraid that traffic is all we've got to work with and wonder how many share this suspicion that transmission is outgrowing presence in our world. These are like attitudes or perceptions that grow on us, becoming our own as they belong to significant others. Hi-pace balance is different from cultivating stillness; from going there when necessary and remaining prepared to do so, or learning how to live at the pace of society, to the extent this is possible.