Take a Chance: Think Big

Justin’s remark about thinking big has come again to me this evening, the day after my return from Seijaku accreditation in San Francisco. Realization comes that we most times stop before we begin … allowing the streams of negativity to have their way … keeping one in a ‘predictable’ mode of living … leaving the chance taking to others.

Trying to get back to Syracuse after Seijaku, I took a chance that perhaps standby wasn’t such a scary word. As events turned out, the flight was overbooked and my ‘wishful thinking had me take another path. The path became one of utilizing the remainder of the day (a sunny Sunday afternoon) to meander without structure, rather ‘homeless’ feeling and understanding the life of the wanderer. The path took me to two of the other T’ai Chi Chih teachers and some enlightening and quite healthy conversations followed by dinner where ‘Phantom of the Opera’ was being sung and played on a piano …accompanied by opera type ‘happy birthday’ chants sung intermittently by the attending waiters and waitresses.

Note that there is a camaraderie found almost instantly with another TCC teacher … the ‘Chi’ giving us common ground …

To conclude … I took a chance but didn’t really lose … that I’ll take other chances now with a realization that Spirit will bring me to better and ‘bigger’ ways to express …

Go to the top! (I hear) … listen to the voice of Justin Stone …THINK BIG!!!

– Ralph Garn
Syracuse NY