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biking joyful and not

September 28, 2005 at 10:19 pm | In bicycle, meaning in life, personal work, food |

This summer I’ve been sharing a box of Angelic Organics veggies with Sarah and Sam, also members of the Hub Co-op where I live. This means once every 3rd Wednesday, I need to ride by bike 9 miles from my downtown office to the drop-site in Oak Park and then another 6 miles home. Tonight was my night. It was chilly and rainy and windy as I left the office and I seemed to be in for a very long miserable bike ride. So I started singing at the top of my lungs about the long bike ride ahead of me in the rain, against the wind and all that, cold ears and all. Before I knew it I was in Oak Park and loading the veggies into the trailer. I didn’t sing as much coming home with the wind at my back and the rain stopped, but did sing a big more. And before I knew it I was home.

So I got to thinking about this and realized that on my weeks to pick up the veggies in the past I ended up with a really sore body afterwards and I think it’s due to riding with the goal in mind, and thus with tension in my body. Tonight I certainly knew where I was going so it’s not that I forgot the goal, but I occupied myself with expression instead of concentrating on the physical sensations of riding. And my body feels great! Could it be that I was more physically relaxed tonight? I think that seems like a pretty good explanation.

So on tonight’s conference call we discussed # 7. The Principle of Immediate Action

“If you pursue an end you enchain yourself. If everything you do is realised as though it were an end in itself, you liberate yourself.”

Seems to fit with that biking story, doesn’t it?