The bridge = DISCIPLINE “How to keep moving forward?”

Sometimes we are stuck. Can we even envision the place where we would rather be? If everything’s chaos then life is purposeless and nothing matters. There is a yawning chasm between there and here. What we need is a Bridge but nothing is visible. Looks like we might have to build one, but what tools and materials do we have? Are there any similarities between where we are now and where we want to be? We need to approach from the closest possible point. Maybe the distance is illusory, maybe the place we plan to get to doesn’t exist at all. The Bridge, on the other hand is ours. We built it and we can own it. The Bridge itself may become the place where we want to be.

Discipline is our resource. Discipline is doing something we’re committed to do when we don’t want to. We’re forming new skin to become the person we want, need to be. It’s sore and tender at first. We’re charting a new path to finding our soulmate, but we lose confidence fast. Rebellion starts early; right when we open one eye. Do I really have to get up? No one cares but me.

I could make a new rule, a new plan…But we know the truth – this is just our devil messing with us. Trying to see how much it can get away with. The saving grace here is to fall in love with discipline. Discipline is order. It’s building, like music. It’s the Beautiful Thing That Comes Next. Naturally we can change our plan – any time. Our real self can make informed decisions to Do Anything. But is this our Real Self, this niggling, seductive saboteur? No. We are on a journey to our real self, the self embodied by the Other (which is tantra) and the self we create together (Tantric Attachment.) We’re committed. And we’re excited! We’ll never get there if we sit by the side of the road in a bundle of sobbing bones and blubber. Here’s the kicker – it feels better the more you do it. You will come to the understanding that it’s all inside you. And you love it!

#HAIKU: The Bridge

I’m here and you’re there. If I go there will

you come here? Stay. I’ll find you.