Bethie’s back! I have just returned from a several day training in Carlsbad, California. This is the third year in a row that I’ve trekked down to Carlsbad for workshops. I absolutely love it there!
I am ever so busy plunging myself back into life. So, indulge me one more time as I re-post below, “Buddha Goes Surfing”, the inspiration that came from my very first visit there…
I just wanted to briefly share how much I loved watching the surfers at Carlsbad beach. I found myself quite entranced by the whole dance of surfing. I watched how they moved in towards a wave and I began to see how surfing moved in stages. It seemed first there was the anticipation of the wave and then choosing where to be with it. I noted the expectation, the planning, all the way through riding the wave. What one might call the stage of fruition or in some cases non-fruition.
It struck me how this is really a metaphor of how everything moves and develops in life. The stages of anticipation, the planning, then carrying out the plans, the doing and finally culminating in fruition or non-fruition. This is how we buy a house, those new shoes, that new car. These are the stages in how we accept a new job or even interview for one. It’s the cycles of that project at work. This is how a garden grows and so much more. It’s essentially how everything is created and developed.
In light of that, fruition or non-fruition doesn’t really matter because there is ALWAYS another wave! And knowing this we can move in the flow and let the current carry us along; we don’t have to buck that current.
By the way, didn’t you just love the title of this piece?! Yup, tell your friends you read the news here first: Buddha Goes Surfing and his message to all — all is well, no worries, go with the flow because there is always, always another wave.
