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Try to pick what
determines SCUBA diving and SCUBA divers.
a)
learning
how to survive (with flailing arms and bulging eyes) exposure to hostile liquid
environment
b)
filling
the check boxes for new destinations and new fishes you must see
c)
collecting
diving licenses and bragging about it
d)
a pleasure
of extreme adrenaline activity
So called divers, who
would pick the above answers as suitable, are about as far from diving
as an average New York’ cockroach is from becoming next president of the USA .
SCUBA diving is a
fusion of poetry, philosophy, perception, feelings – life itself in a fullest
meaning.
It takes you to the
four dimensional path meandering towards freedom. When the fifth dimension of
Freedom touches your heart you become a Diver.
You are returning to
times when you were safe in a liquid environment of your mother’s womb, you are
returning to times when your not so bright ancestors, eons ago, decided to
crawl out of the sea.
You reach out to
faraway times beyond some distant horizons.
You master when and
how to stop, when to take a shortcut, when a detour…
You abandon perception
of time as a line leading from the past through now into the future. You see
the time is just another universe worth exploring.
Your mind, soul and
heart are open. You are able to immerse, to see below the surface – not just when
diving,..
You may find a buddy
with whom you will bond. Buddy may stay or stray. However, trust, companionship, respect, rainbow… are timeless.
Your personal bushido
may change a lot. Your telling right from wrong may become extremely strange to
majority. You may be called renegade, hard core individualist, ocean cowboy,
ronin of 21st century, absolute loser…
Who cares?
What you experience on
this path is worth way, way more.
This is a part of my
path.
e-path…….not found….:)
Holy cow! And I was about to pick b answer.
ReplyDeleteNonetheless, nicely written.
True, very true...
It seems answer b can be a temporary temptation even for the founders of Zen Diving :)
DeleteI definitely have check boxes for destinations and fishes :)
ReplyDeleteOK, OK... try harder...:)
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