Wow, Ann - What a beautiful explanation of riding a horse! Probably everyone
who has ever done so, can relate to what you have written - I sometimes try to
imagine my paternal grandfather's experience, who relied on true 'horsepower'
for much of his life, and didn't see a car until he was almost fifty years old.
A world of horses.
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This is an interesting experience that always happens when I practice TM with
my wife. I can feel my nearly pure awareness contact hers, and then the
boundary is gone, and it is simply oneness, without boundary or ownership. I
always flinch mentally, just as the boundary dissolves. It is as if I am
suspended in an empty room, dimly lit by blue lights, and I sense another room,
this one also empty, but dimly lit by purple lights. Then, suddenly the divider
between the two is gone, and it is one room. This is probably more common that
it sounds, especially given Share's experience in the dome ("ovals of light").
I only get this riding my horse! The athletic movement of the horse and
finding the way in which my body can work and move with his back is the goal.
Couple that with the mental partnership of asking and responding and you can
start to appreciate why this sport is so amazing. You take an animal with its
own free will, its own ideas and you take its strong body and you sit on that
body and communicate through touch what you would like to do and lo and behold,
the horse responds and then your responsibility is to find a way to stay out of
the horse's way, to integrate yourself with its mind and its physicality in
order to become one thing moving as dynamically and effortlessly as possible
through space. It really is all that!
