Good morning friends. One of my favorite things to do is to drive. I love to drive especially when it is a long drive. I have read a an article that focused my mind as I love driving. It’s a good one. Those who love to drive, did you know that they consider driving as a spiritual exercise. It’s nice to know about it. Let me share this with you.
I am a driver with 35 years’ experience, who is yet unable to say: “I am perfect.”
Everyday I learn something new, or a memory prevents me from embarrassing myself. Preventing ego from disturbing my driving is a very beautiful spiritual exercise, because in Bangalore’s traffic, your patience is tested to the maximum.
Being in the right can still get you into an argument or a fight, and I can make things worse if I let my ego erupt, and even though I have helped other drivers to drive better, I still have to keep learning and smiling. I will quote something here: “Today you are disciples, tomorrow you will be teachers, to be good teachers you must remain good disciples.” So I continuously reassess myself by recollecting where I goofed up during the day.
Driving is also a form of meditation. My mind becomes a blank except for the information being relayed to it by my eyes, and which it instantly translates into action for my feet and hands to use. All done in nanoseconds. To enhance this meditation, I have to merge with the car and become one with it. I have this habit of becoming what I see. I become one with a kite soaring in the sky, to see the wonderful vista below through its eyes. It’s the same looking at a tree, unless I become the tree I will never be able to experience the insect life teeming under the bark or running along the branches. The lizard, the squirrel, or the bird relaxing under the shade of the leaves. This is equivalent to being one with the Universe, one energy. This is one of the highest forms of meditation. – Stephen Isaac
