Moving meditation

Colleen and I have both found ourselves to be much more able to obtain greater presence and inner peace throughout our travels since coming in contact with Vipassana. 

Meditation isn't restricted to the hour in the morning and evening, we attempt to maintain this mindfulness throughout the day.
While cycling our minds are quieter, we just observe the sensations in our bodies, the thoughts that arise in our minds, watch the world pass by, and listen to sounds come and go.
Cycling brings even more clarity to the truth of the impermanence of each experience.

While moving throughout the day, I try to experience the world in each present moment without any words, definitions, or labels entering my mind. Experiencing the moment simply as it is without any of the conditioning that tends to put up a screen over the reality of the present.
We are breaking away from this conditioning by simply removing the words, removing expectations, by truly watching.
Each interaction becomes more fufulling, eyes and smiles become brighter,  connections are deeper, my heart feels lighter.
Without craving or aversion each moment is complete and seamlessly flows into the next.

The more we practice the easier it is to remain in this state of just being. When tension does begin to arise I now have a greater ability to understand the need to stop and observe and try to find the source.
Watching this tension without judgement it easily subsides, taking away a knot that otherwise would have held itself inside if I had tried to suppress it.

On our way to Haldwani from Rishakesh we stay one night in a empty room in a Catholic mission hospital and another night with a loving Muslim family. Falling into each experience without trying to force anything, just being open to what comes.

We leave our bicycles in Haldwani for a few days and visit the Himalayan Farm Project where I had spent several months volunteering last year.
It's nice to come back feeling truly like a visitor, though I was always only a visitor. And to see the space fufulling it's purpose, full of passionate loving people from different parts of the globe creating a temporary community together, learning from and with each other how to live a more peaceful harmonious life.
We stay for a couple of days, cook delicious food, share stories and work to restore fertility to the soil.
Colleen and I come down the mountain feeling calm and clear, feeling at peace with the idea of spending the next month learning from another farm a little further north in the mountains.

We first take a bus to the nearby Nepal border to refresh the 6 month duration that we can stay in India at one time.
Then after a quick Nepal visit we head back to Haldwani to start our journey further north into the mountains.

Wishing you all love, peace, and inner harmony in this moment :)