The Train

You are a train. And your entire life you have been on train tracks headed in the same direction as all the other trains. You live by the train’s rules of only going one way on the tracks and only sleeping at the train station and only being productive by carrying things to and from on your train.

You have been chug, chugging along, sometimes merrily, sometimes not merrily depending on the weather, or what you have been asked to carry.

But then one day you decide to dip your train wheel off the tracks. And you get a glimpse of TRUTH, of liberation.

Then you dip another wheel and then another. And you continue to get more and more glimpses of what life might be like outside the confines of the train tracks. And you are intrigued and curious and follow your train heart.

Then one day the train, the tracks and everything in your train world begins to crumble. You have nowhere to chug along to, because the train tracks are dissolving. It is terrifying and you free fall into its depths.

Then the glimpse is there again and it’s showing you a new way. A re-birth. This becomes stronger the more you look. The more you go into the depths of it all.

And your train heart was chug chugging along so nicely before and now it’s being shown the TRUTH. And it doesn’t know what to do with this TRUTH. And it’s confused and lost.

But the train finds its inner train courage. And it wants to know the TRUTH. It wants to ‘be’ the truth.

The momentum from chugging along all it’s life in one direction to now shift and chug into a different direction requires an enormous amount of energy. It’s like slowly stopping a 120 mph train going one direction and asking it to be still. The train still has energetic wants and programmed habits to keep going 120 mph. But slowly, so slowly, it slows down. It shifts the energetic desires to keep plowing at mock speed. And in that slowing, it sees that going 120 mph is not really who it is.

It actually sees that the trains progress and momentum going 120 mph is actually an illusion and not real. Only just the energy of the momentum of going 120 mph. And the train is in fact not only the train, but the fields, and meadows, and cows and the train doesn’t even need to be a train. The train can be whatever it wants.