I think you sum up the situation quite succinctly here. The magic happens not when we stop chasing, but when the chasing becomes a dance in which we’re fully participating — ripe with humor, delighting in both pain and pleasure, and free of feeling that we need to ‘be somewhere else’. Thanks for your insight, kc!

Sweetwater,
Kenton

Every one of your articles has a gem of wisdom, but this particular one deeply reverberates with me.

I’ve been running around in circles most of my life. I realize this, and I don’t stop, but instead, I speed up to chase ideas and beliefs and methods about how to stop. I realize even this. Now what?

Getting comfortable with emptiness, being aware without analyzing, releasing of effort and ideas…this is all good. But then, a fear, a doubt. What if this too is a subtle form of the same madness?

kc