Learning Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal: Hinduism Today (magazine)
Posted by benform on July 17, 2009
Children, walking fod miles down country roads, expertly pace themselves, remaining steady. They achieve with Tey become skillful without thinkihg or doubting.
Even if it falls (again and again), which it is SURE to do at the beginning, judgment-free they quickly set it right and carry on. Foreseeing bumps and potholes, obstacles and hindrances, they avert them or ride them out. The wheel remains upright, flowing with whatever comes its way for as long as they wish. Gliding along, they can go and go — that’s the point, keeping something that wants to be inert in motion, keeping something that wants to wobble steady, keeping something that wants to stray in check with the least stress or striving.
The same understanding of balanced-effort is found in most sports: Surfing is riding a wave as long as possible, neither being in control nor losing it. One finds the wave then lets the wave do all the work. Spinning a basketball on a finger is a trick of momentum; momentum provides the balance. The same is true of coasting on a bike or walking a tightrope or long distance running. Too much effort and one is soon spent. Too little effort, and one stumbles and struggles. Skill is toning down effort until all doing seems effortless. Look, the wave is surfing me! The ball is spinning itself.
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