The Infinite Moment

Published by Derek under Pictures, Meditations/Discussions, Personal on September 27, 2007

I must say driving in the car is a very meditative experience. I know I probably should be focused on the traffic, but I just seem to zone out every time I’m behind the wheel. I even zone out on my bicycle.

It’s like everything around me just shifts out of focus and I am floating in a sea of nothingness. I know it sounds bizarre, but it’s true. I’ll be riding/driving along and then I seem to perceive the entire picture. Everything around me becomes one with me. It’s actually a very enlightening experience. I’ve noticed that whenever I’m in a position of constant change and fluidity the natural tendency to follow in its flow grabs a hold of me. I can’t really explain what it feels like, but I guess you could say that I experience the awareness of being the driver, passenger, traffic, streetlight, pedestrian, and every little thing that comes to view all at once. Imagine a baseball game and while you’re at bat you are the pitcher and the outfielders. You are even the ball that is flying towards you. You no longer are thinking you are just reacting to the universe set in motion.

I wonder why we don’t experience this flow all the time. I know I have experienced it before. Whenever I’m on stage in front of an audience I feel everything around me flow in and out of the same moment. So much energy is focused on the same things that it almost creates it’s own tiny universe in our own universe. Like a bubble inside another bubble.

Maybe I’m just a space cadet and I really am just too tired to be driving/riding around town. I don’t know. All I know is that there is something about the flow of a stream that seems to set in motion an infinite space of awareness. You can see it in the ocean if you look long enough. You can see it in the heartbeat of the city when you watch it from 50,000 feet. You can see it in every aspect of life as it moves from point A to point B.

Life becomes more beautiful every day…

Peace.