Yet Another Advantage of Feeling the Sense of Urgency
04/18/2006 09:51 p.m.

April 9th, 2006


I have recommenced cycling as part of my morning routine apart from running and playing a little with Mowgli, since the last 8 days. I used to take 40 to 50 rounds of the circular driveway of my house in the past. I have decided to take 25 this time.

On day one, after having taken 5 rounds ( which isn't much considering that one round works out to just about 50 meters or so,) I felt as if I have taken 500 rounds and 25 looked never-ending. I was worried that I might give up cycling. But things suddenly changed since yesterday, and this happened owing to the implementation of the practice I call 'feeling the sense of urgency' (my journal dated: 6th April, 2006).

This feeling of sense of urgency is not just rushing through things in order to return to the top most priority, but it also ensures that one accomplishes the task in hand in a proper and intended manner. Besides, living from moment to moment in continuity and in silence from action to action, undoing all the barriers all along the way, is one of my top priorities which is infinitely in application, despite all my failures.

The counting of rounds while cycling turned into a barrier since it generated anxiety and boredom. This made me think, and I decided to undo this counting. I decided to become one with my cycling. My attention stopped drifting, neither ahead nor in retrospect, and this did the trick.

In the course of my cycling, though, there occurred two moments when I thought, and yes, the thought was that I have taken enough rounds, but to my surprise I found that I continued to cycle. My body refused to stop.

I don't know if I did 25 rounds or 35, but I know for sure that I did enough, and in the process I generated much needed energies. The quality of my concentration and the composition of my mind was better. Yes, this is another advantage of this trick I am tricking my self with these days - feeling the sense of urgency.