When I coached youth soccer teams, I spent a lot of time teaching the basics, establishing the goals and setting the limits—what to do, what not to do. As the players grew older and more experienced, they had absorbed those lessons, and I began to encourage them to go beyond those limitations, to break the rules, so to speak, in expanding their game.
That's how Mahamudra Journey is beginning to look to me. Maybe I was on a Mahamudra Journey all along, but I sure didn't know it. I'm not even sure what it is now, but it's not what I expected. Maybe it's less than I expected, but in this case, less is more!
"Less is more!" What a good lesson in each moment. Can I stay with the infinity of possibilities within until conditions arise that show the next step? While resting in and as divine presence (how ever much I can feel and embody), can I act with kindness and compassion to others and self in our assumed roles as separate beings? Can I feel and embody the five elements within and without for communion from the heart's depth with this supposedly solid environment? Can I really have the courage to leap into the expanse of direct presence and allow that to guide each moment?