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Leap. This is the Vedic directive. Leap. Each day we align ourselves with the movement of the laws of nature. We "establish ourselves in Being," as is directed in The Bhagavad Gita. Before meditation, we are constrained to self-identity as our thoughts and our feelings. From this identity, our choices will be those which feed the ego, choices which will lead us solely toward individual comfort or away from individual discomfort. We will be guessing what is right, or deciding based on opinions--of ourselves, our family, our religion, our philosophy. Some choices we make will be right, of course, at least to some extent; but still they will be choices, and sometimes we will just have to guess. It's a gamble. Sometimes we will win, but also, sometimes we will lose.
By de-exciting through meditation, we drop out of ego-identity and into identity with nature. Ego, self, is still here, but we begin to know ourselves as something in addition to this ego identity. We begin to know ourselves as nature itself; and from this identification with nature, we are guaranteed to be aligned with evolution. When we are aligned with evolution, there is no more "figuring it out." There is no more choice. There is simply the right thing to do. The best thing to do. The one step from this moment, from this place we find ourselves in that is the most evolutionary step to take;and we find ourselves naturally taking that step. Even if we can't see where we're going to land.
We leap.
And if we find that we don't like where it is we've landed, we simply leap again.
Today I will do at least one thing, however small, that feels like the right thing to do, even if it makes no sense. Perhaps especially if it makes no sense.
 Antelope, Stillwater County, Montana
All material copyright Jeff Kober
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