It is important to keep things simple for the journey at hand. A few nice tools are necessary, if one has to many at your disposal, the mind stays to busy figuring out which to use. In fact at the beginning it will be important to trust body, gut, heart, kidney, anything but staying in your head, mind-organ. Your instincts will prove more accurate and comparable with sustained life than mind-life where we are going.
Tools as above can be used in small place or larger vista, one is only occupying and taking one step at a time, one moment per unit of time.
Many of us will be starting this journey later in life after we have had time to accumulate many physical, material, and psychological items. Soon we will look at this inventory, and see how we know what we will need to keep and what needs jettisoning for the journey.
Remember the main difference between ‘trip’ and ‘journey’ as we are using it in this series is the length of endeavor or duration. Mostly I will reference ‘inner travel’ with experience from ‘outer travel’-neither of which am I an expert, but neither will I speak of anything I have not personally experienced.
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