This is a story about an Elephant.
Now before I begin my story, it's worth starting off with thinking about the idea of patience and of a process, if you like. Rather than trying to fix something it's more like being on a journey where we start to understand and witness the mind in a different way.
Traditionally, when this idea is talked about in mediation normally the Elephant is used as an example. I know this might seem in contrast to this idea of lightness and spaciousness, but there's something interesting about an Elephant. You watch an Elephant and you see a real sense of purpose, it's just one foot after the next. It's tight in any way, it's very relaxed, It's very deliberate, very purposeful.
It is well worth considering bringing this kind of attitude to this type of journey that we're on. Life, believe it or not, is a journey.
In the sense that, it's not something that's going to happen quickly and that everything is going to change over night, but if we all just keep taking one step after the next, and focussing on that in the moment right now, rather than looking too far ahead, or thinking back to what happened months or years ago from now to how one might have felt, then we start to bring the same characteristics into practice, and we start to see meaningful change over a period of time.
It's all about taking it slow, going at your own pace and slow and steady wins the race.
