The Art of Travel 1-3

THE ART OF TRAVEL

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YOU WHERE BORN TO TRAVEL

Whether we like it or not we are on the move.We journey through

time and space.Through thoughts & emotions into the many

experiences of life.

This very planet is traveling around the sun, which in turn

is moving through an outer arm of a spiral galaxy, which in turn is traveling through our Milky Way.

Matter has been traveling for 15 billion years across countless

light years in space.

Leaving where ever you are now,is the most natural thing in the Universe.

Commentary: Yes i still think as incarnated beings we are destined

to travel, to move this fleshy vehicle about, and some of us quite a lot. There is a heck of a lot of space in this universe to roam around in once we are done here, but you'll find this planet ain't so small once you clock up a few frequent flyer points. Cosmologists tell us that everything is moving. Even galaxies. The Andromeda Galaxy 2.5 million light years away, will actually crash into our Milky Way in around 6 billion years from now.By then i guess we will have worked out how to travel down cosmic worm holes.

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THERE ARE NO DESTINATIONS:YOU ARE ALREADY HERE

When you are fully present to the now & here, you are in effect

now-here, and being no-where you are everywhere.If you are everywhere 

you can't really go any where can you?

Mindful of this apparent anomaly learn to connect with everything

that appears to be OUT THERE.

Commentary: I swear i wasn't smoking anything, i was doing a bit of semantically traveling. But this wordplay explanation does provide an insight for that ALL ONE experience we can have simply by being fully present where ever we are.

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TRAVELING IS A TRANSITION OF AWARENESS.

YOU LEAVE TO ARRIVE.

We travel in circles.Each place is like a bead on a necklace.Connected by a thread they form a loop.

'I been travelin around' means just that.

Commentary: Some people have long necklaces.Here i go contradicting myself from -2- , but if you see everywhere as the necklace you are wearing, each bead (place)always remains on that ONE necklace.You don't really go anywhere cept round and round. Eh?

(The pic of the expresso cup is from Tassa del Oro cafe in Roma. Figure you might need a short sharp shot of caffine to deal with these existential travel musings.)