ENTER THE TIMELESS CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE PRESENT MOMENT

“There are millions of people in this world who are tortured by their own minds. The present moment is the portal out of suffering. Resist the present moment … close ther door to happiness.”

ECKART TOLLE

WHILE RIDING … THIS CAME TO ME

Riding my tadpole often relaxes my mental presence to the same place of inner reckoning that Siddhartha (the Buddha) taught his followers to realize when self-training a calm mind. This was their 1st step towards becoming enlightened about finding their emotional balance … their heavenly peace. They can then take their calmed mind from the chatter of their mental white noise through the portal of awareness into the ever-changing reality of the present moment. This then allows the individual to self-train a meditative state of focused awareness for the sudden emergence of aha wisdom … yes … spiritual enlightenment. Siddhartha achieved this mind-into-body meditative state on his journey to his self-trained spiritual enlightenment.

In this arena of focus, your awareness is in the place of self-contemplation where it can gather the appropriate knowledge (self-knowledge) for what’s necessary to build a grassroots understanding of this reality’s outcome-determining principles to allow realizing a more enlightened life understanding. An individual’s emptiness-of-understanding of these principles challenges their human emotional makeup. Your mental chatter becomes a bit more enriched with life understanding and your future emotional suffering becomes progressively a bit less.

The emotional balance-based heavenly bliss all humans seek follows in the wake of the “aha” moments of realized experiential wisdom we experience. Siddhartha’s teaching takes you into the ongoing life-buzz within your body … the only place you have an intrinsically honed true sensual arena connection with Mother Nature to witness and focus on the principle makeup of her at work in Father Time’s present moment reality.

Jim Morrison named his ’60s LA rock band in honor of these portals to self-understanding … the Doors.

STEP OUT OF MENTAL CONVERSATION TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE PRINCIPLED FORCES THAT MAKE UP THE PRESENT MOMENT

An individual fills the emptiness-of-understanding that their ego does its best to hide and mask with the same Fig Leaf Wisdom Adam & Eve used in the Garden of Eden when taking the leap of blind faith to believe in the Eden snake’s empty promise of all-knowing wisdom. They were empty of understanding the intrinsically founded pre-intellectual parroted outcome-determining principles of nature that made the gifted wisdom … wisdom rooted in experiential history … not mere blind faith in some outside source’s hearsay.

It’s true. Your ego chatter takes your awareness away from the only place where you can have the “aha” moments of discovery that give you a more personal understanding of the unchangeable principles of nature that rule the situational outcomes of the ongoing change that Mother Nature stamps out for you in Father Time’s footprints.

Your ego will handcuff your mental energy’s ongoing curiosity to figure out what affects your emptiness of understanding of what affects life situational outcomes. Theological borrowed wisdom fails to provide an intrinsic understanding of these principled apples of wisdom just like the empty wisdom from Eden’s Tree of Knowledge. You will wear masks your self-protective ego-generated mental white-noise crafts for you to appear to others that you have a life understanding. You’ll painfully wander lost through your mental garden of white noise in search of the answer to a yet unknown question.

MINIMIZE RIDING DUTIES

Make your trike operational duties as background-natural as possible.

The mental free zone emerges with time-spun adaptations. On a tadpole, my first comfort allowing insight was that I didn’t have to use brain power to keep my balance. I noticed that my drum brakes took away my preoccupation with brakes that didn’t just simply work.

I rode a loaned ICE VTX for the 1st time on the 160-mile bike ride from Terre Haute to Richmond. I learned that the VTX trike cockpit was made to fit my physique. The only problem with my ride was having to concentrate on shifting the gears. A Rolloff rear hub gear set cured that. Now, gears get shifted without thinking within my cadence of pedaling. The more one rides, the more fitting they can fashion their trike.

For me, on an upright bike, the last 10 miles are spent shifting on my saddle from side to side thinking about my sore butt. On a trike, the last 10 miles of a ride are the best. My body’s acclimated to the weather and my body’s warmed up and getting used … painlessly … while allowing my expended energy to adjust my pedaling to whatever terrain Mother Nature presents … without thinking about the degree of slope involved.

Over 50 years old? Ride your tadpole 3 times/week and add 10 years to your life.

Shake up and intensify that mental concentration … head north on the current gravel Nickle Plate Rail Trail above 52nd Street before it becomes a paved railway this year.

Let that child inside have an adventure day out!