Heart Open, Balanced Restored.
(Essentially a part two from “Penetrate this Present Depth”, in this piece I shift from reflecting on the external beauty around me, toward a recognition of the blissful internal state I find myself in. This was written on Day 3 of my stay at Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery, where I felt a strong calling to revisit the magical forest which brought me so much fascination the day prior. The focus here is being in tune with my body, senses and eventually my heart, “even if just for a moment…”)
Heart open, balanced restored. Even if just for a moment, let it be a blissful reminder of the devastating simplicity that this is all there is, anyway.
I find myself immersed in a Luxury only recognised by the tender unification of my body's senses, dancing together in effortless harmony. It reminds me of a childhood dream; to find a movie, video game, virtual world so vivid and expansive that I may infinitely explore it's every intentional detail, while painting the vast canvas that lays before me.
Perhaps just a melancholic yearning for the same innocent expeditions conjured by our insatiable, youthful imaginations. Yet I find a more profound, alchemising sorrow to this distant recollection. Why is it now, only in seemingly fleeting moments, that I return to this state of Being? So present, so pure, yet so wilfully ignored...
As I recover my Self from getting lost in this intellectually enticing thought train, I step off at the next stop, and continue my aimless journey...
A mindful surge of intelligent energy reignites the precipices of my sensing bodily organs. Enough to invite curious thoughts of analysis to decode this rather unfamiliar experience, yet I opt to remain internally still, on this occasion.
In this state, metaphors, symbolisms, philosophies and Poetry seamlessly enter the chasm beyond the thinking mind, as if eternally waiting patiently for their moment to be invited through the noisy doors of perception. I see myself mirrored in the rippled lake, both in image and in the greater stillness, undisturbed by the waves of motion passing through. As I bathe in this recognition, I feel my heart closing another chapter. Oh, the Harmony of experience, even if just for a moment.
