We at Slackline Australia believe that using a slackline is a tool for Enlightenment.

As you read this, words are forming in your mind, you are not who you think you are. 99% of the population is convinced that they are a separate entity, they believe they are a voice in their head and ultimately this is the cause of all suffering.

You are wondering am I part of that 99%? Well ask yourself: Can you stop thinking? Do you find yourself constantly flitting between the future and the past? Do you feel anxious, worried or upset? If you answered ‘Yes’ to any of these then you are perceiving life through a mind made entity whose core dysfunction is that you are separate. In this state you feel incomplete and alone, an isolated fragment in a cold and harsh Universe.

Since the mind is a problem solving machine it tries to ease these feelings of incompleteness through external factors such as becoming famous or getting financial security or finding the perfect partner but ask anyone who has achieved these things and they will tell you that these external factors simply cover up this feeling of incompleteness for a while but it is always there and always comes back. Why? Because the mind is trying to solve the problem of separateness not realising it is the problem.

For example, it is like a Detective looking for a criminal without realising the Detective is the criminal.

A problem can only exist while you are thinking.

Enter the slackline: Imagine your eyes are looking forward at a beautifully crafted speck of bark, you observe every detail, then you allow your eyes to relax and you suddenly realise that your vision instantly expands, you have 180 degree vision. While still being able to see that speck of bark perfectly, you place your foot on the line feeling the strength in it, the softness of the material and without taking your focus off the bark you step up and you suddenly realise that the body is solving the problem of balancing on a 25mm nylon line and it suddenly becomes possible for you to directly experience the liberation of no mind.

All of your ‘problems’ have suddenly vanished because you are experiencing the present moment, the only moment that ever exists, the one place the mind cannot venture, the one place the mind fears most but its not scary, incomprehensible yes but you can feel you are alive, you have life energy flowing through you under all that incessant thinking is a realm of indescribable peace.

This is who you really are, complete pure awareness. But then a thought comes knocking and you loose your concentration and with a spring you jump off the line and you now find yourself standing on the ground and it still feels like you are balancing, somehow you have brought back with you that feeling of peace and a little smile of knowing comes across your face. Again you direct your focus to that beautiful speck of bark and place your foot on that ‘narrow gate’ that is the doorway to the unmanifest. Knowing that each time you jump up onto that line your ability to stay in that world of indescribable peace grows and your ability to observe your mind sharpens.

This is the experience you too can have through our training programmes and shift your awareness from a ‘poor separate little me’ to a state of Enlightenment. This is why Slackline Australia was born and our only aim is to share this direct experience.