WALKING with LIGHT FEET and SPLASHES

Life gets serious at times. Things can feel very serious. And then we have times when we are preparing to embark on something, to pursue a goal or vision, and we can feel very serious about that too. To this we have this notion of taking steps, often a first step. We want to succeed so badly at something, we want to realize a vision so badly that we get incredibly serious about our goal. This is especially easy to do if we have a purpose driven goal. We are ready to take a step but our feet feel like they are covered in concrete. It is the weight of our intention which is made heavy by our sense of importance. Yet when we walk, when we head out on a journey, life does not care how heavy our feet are. In fact we are somewhat the fool for taking such heavy steps when we can walk lightly. The heavier our steps, the more we are focused on our feet, our intention, which sounds like a good idea. However, the more focus we have on our feet, the less we are aware of our surroundings, and responding to our surroundings is what gets us where we need to go, not staring at our heavy feet.

We are creatures of habit and momentum. If we begin our jounreys with heavy feet, placing so much weight on our steps, we will often carry this forward in the way we walk and we may even foolishly convince our selves that the reason we got somewhere was because of our seriousness, when it really was just that we kept walking and kept respondng to obstacles. This all leads us to a notion of first steps and of splashes and jumping in the water. We could say a beginning is like taking a first step on a journey. But a more complete story lies in the metaphor of jumping into the water. To this, the notion of taking a heavy first step is akin to wanting to make a big splash. We want everyone to see us. Look over there, they are making a bif splash. Let's all go and look! But people make splashes everywhere and a splash is just a splash. A splash is a short lived thing, big or small. So the ocean of life is unconcerned with splashes. A wave is an event. Temporary still. but it has a power. Great power. A splash means little. What splashes do is they send ripples, not just above the water, but equally important below. Big splashes tend to be made by either people who are panicking, or those who have some self important issue going on. Some people are great at making gigatnitc splashes, yet they all lead to nothing. Is that who we want to become? Small splashes are how all wise things become. Maybe nobody seems to notice, but we make ripples. And then we begin to swim, yes. We can male a big splash and wait for others to find us, but what finds us is all relative to our wisdom and readiness, not our ability to make splashes.

No, we cannot accomplish anything in life alone, but we jump in the water alone. Once we are in, we are no longer alone. Our spalshes are not of concern. Our ripples are, but we don't have to worry about them. When we swim, we just swim. We don't think how are my ripples? What ripples should I make? They are natural things and we want our ripples to communicate to life that we are just being our selves. Not that we are trying too hard nor failing to create momentum. Our vision, strength, and purpose are our focus not our ripples. Our momentum is important. And our ability to pay attention and respond to life is important. To know what is able to help us and what just wants to eat us.

So, take the weight off of your steps and trust in them. Let your focus be where it should be, on the path. And do not waste your energy trying to make a big splash. Just jump in and trust. Big splashes that matter, that have significance, are not things from individuals. they are the cumulative effort of the many. Just like a wave, they are slow building of many ripples into a single cohesive movement. The result of the ocean of life as much as the little swimmers and splashers that we all are. To begin light footed and unimportant is a sign of wisdom. To make small splashes and see what life sends back reveals the miracle of the ocean of life in its ability to give us just what we need to move forward and to expsoe to us the things that nourish us, as well as the things we must recoginze that only want to rob us of our energy. In this, we become what we become and that is all we want. We can all become part of a great wave of something. This is always the sum of events and through the timing of life and of us just allowing the ocean to reveal our true nature and expression.

SMALL SPLASHES MAKE RIPPLES JUST AS DO BIG SPLASHES. RIPPLES ARE WAYS OF COMMUNICATING WITH LIFE MORE THAN SPLASHES. WE SHOULD MAKE THE SPLASH WE MAKE AS LIFE RESPONDS MOST TO HONESTY. READINESS IS NOT A THING OF THE ABILITY TO MAKE BIG SPLASHES. IT IS THE ABILITY TO JUMP IN AND MAKE WAVES, RIPPLES. TO LET LIFE RESPOND TO US FOR WHAT WE TRULY ARE.

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