Nowhere to Hide

I stand on a slab of white marble. It stretches as far as I can see in every direction. My feet tell me, as I wear no shoes, or indeed anything at all, that it is cold, solid and impenetrable. I look up and see a single puffy white cloud in the otherwise robin’s egg blue sky. I am alone, naked and now a little concerned about the meaning I am supposed to take from this dreamscape. As I consider this I am paralyzed by the reality the there is nowhere to hide. There is nothing, I suddenly realize, that I can do to insure my survival. I cannot dig in, find a cave, start a fire, find water or hunt game. There is no flora and no fauna. I have no tools, maps or equipment of any kind. I have nothing and I am nowhere.
I hear an echo of my thoughts, there is nowhere to hide. I could run, but why, the situation will remain bleak until I unlock its mystery and solve the problem.

I start to walk in a random direction with the destination totally unknown, I chuckle at the pun, thinking of the destiny part of destination. As I walk I become hyper aware of the one thing that I can control, my body. I feel my toes test every step and the chain reaction of my ankles, calves, knees, hip-flexors and quads. I feel my heart adapting to the effort and my mind in frantic search for comparatives, historical reference and solace. I decide to relax and almost immediately begin to add a rhythmic shuffle to the ball and change of my previous death march. If I am moving towards an ambush, disaster, or a snare trap, I will enjoy every second of the journey, this, my inner scout tells me, because there is no intel available, this is uncharted territory, the wilderness of the unknown. For all we know this could be the very path towards nirvana and enlightenment. All I have to do is stay calm and be aware. The fact that the only thing I have to be aware of are my thoughts and my body is a calming reality. Since there is nowhere to hide, as soon as I accept this circumstance as my current reality, I have uncovered another clue. I have unearthed a relic of this truth. Keep moving.

I have my thoughts and my body. Everything else exists only to show me this truth. The entire universe as we have come to interrupt and understand it, is one big mirror asking only that we look courageously into it, to deeply see what it actually is and who we are.

As I move towards the light in walking mediation, the importance of this moment creates a warmth in my chest, a glowing, comforting, positive and gentle ember of love. The transformation astounds me. Where I was once cold, naked and frightened, using no tools other than my thoughts and the orchestrated movements of my body, I now move with power and precision towards what I fully expect to be an abundance of awareness, energy and love.

I wake, stunned by the majesty of this nanosecond of eternity feeling refreshed and ready to move brightly into the new reality I have imagined.

There is nowhere to hide.