The world will become peaceful, beautiful and abundant
IF OUR PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES ARE SIMULTANEOUSLY AN OPPORTUNITY TO REFLECT


A man is running along a road. The road stretches before him in a completely straight line, ending at a lighthouse in the far distance. He concentrates on moving forward with all his might in order to reach his destination. As he runs, his awareness is on the light at the top, guiding his steps on a purely physical level. Yet he is also aware that the same steps, at different times, feel lighter or heavier. This is because the road, although perfectly straight, also rises and falls from time to time, although it is not perceptible to the eye.

As he runs through the night, his eyes see the light more clearly – an immobile pinpoint contrasting with the stars which move across the sky. And during the day, the light all but disappears, yet he knows it is there. As he runs in reflection, he realises that the ground he is running on is actually the earth, turning through periods of night and day, and that the spinning earth is also moving round the sun.

As he turns inward, he reflects upon the constant circuit within himself, the passage of blood, the expelling of residue, the eternal renewal process of his cells, and he wonders in particular at those cells on the soles of his feet which are under constant pressure. He notices his breath – regular when relaxed, flat when in fear, imperceptible when he is asleep. In periods of heightened awareness, he becomes the earth itself, imagining what it must be like to feel the imprint of his running shoes on her body, how they bend the grass, how they thud on the concrete which prevents her breath.

In the end, the running man reaches his destination, only to find that a new circle of potential destinations has opened up as he surveys the landscape from the top of the lighthouse. Reflecting upon his past and potential future journeys he recognises the DENSITY of the physical matter he has traversed, and the physical body he has used to traverse it, but his experience has been so much more than this. NEW DIMENSIONS have opened up to him, resulting from his ability to reflect, observe, empathise and wonder. Holding all these perceptions at once, the running man recognises himself as part of the ENTIRE COSMOS.