Focus on the Road!
October 1st, 2008 by Pete
A man is learning to drive and is out in his instructor’s car with the instructor sitting beside him. He has had a few lessons and is beginning to feel more confident, so the instructor tells him to drive onto the freeway. He does so, but then it starts to rain.
The rain gets heavier, so the instructor tells him to put on the windscreen-wipers. The learner-driver turns them on, but because this is a new experience for him, he finds he is quite distracted by the wipers moving from side to side in front of him and soon the car begins to swerve from side to side on the freeway.
As they veer from side to side along the freeway, the cars behind them begin to sound their horns, so the driver says to the instructor, “I can’t control the car properly with this distraction in front of me, can we pull over and stop?”
The instructor says, “No, you can’t stop on the freeway — focus on the road.”
The driver says, “But I can’t, the windscreen-wipers are too much of a distraction.”
The instructor replied, “Just focus on the road.”
The driver then begins to plead with the instructor, “Please, can we just slow the wipers down a little?”
To which the instructor replied, “No, the rain is too heavy — focus on the road.”
The driver is still distracted by the mesmerizing wipers and struggling to keep control of the car, so he says to the instructor, “Then, can I please slow down and go into the slow lane?”
But the instructor says, “No, maintain your speed and focus on the road.”
The learner continued on eratically feeling very anxious and intimidated by the honking of the other cars and pleaded once more, “Please, please — let me get off the freeway or I may cause an accident.”
But the instructor again insists, “No, focus on the road.”
And what happens? After a while, focusing finally occurs and the swervng ceases. When focusing has taken place, it doesn’t matter whether the windscreen-wipers are on slow speed, medium speed, or high speed, because focusing on the road has now happened.
It is the same with this inquiry. You are saying, “My mind is too busy, there are too many things going on in my life … how can I stay in the Self?”
The instructor says, “You are the Self … focus on the Self.”
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