Cloisters, Le Thoronet
Before anything else happens, I live and I breathe. With living and breathing come the opportunity for sensation. To sense life here and now with no encumbrances, no obstacles. To sense it simply as it is, resting here in stillness. And I breathe without obstacles or encumbrances, resting here in stillness. Here is where I breathe in the song of life which at its root begins in stillness and in silence. And from this deep beginning arise all vibrations of being; and even though I don't clearly know it. and I'm not always in relationship with it, at their root where these vibrations arise in order to effect the creation of being. Every action begins harmonically aligned. At its root, the song of creation and my own vibration are perfectly harmonically aligned. And every further vibration or note that arises in the course of life and being as I breathe in and out from this stillness is added into that originally perfect and harmonized vibration, in an ascending scale that has both harmonic and the possibility of dissonant notes in it. I call that process age or life or time. But it does not matter what name I give it, because it has no original name, any more than each day that passes actually has an original name. And so, I have permission to experience this without any names. To just sense the nature of vibration. The way that it begins. The way that it aligns, and encounters other vibrations which align with it. In the acknowledgement through sensation of this natural harmonious alignment of being. I acknowledge the fact that I am here now, within this symphony of energies, and that there are times such as this one where a stop is reached and the whole orchestra comes to rest for a moment, at the bottom of its own breath, waiting to begin the next movement. The first perfect vibration, to which will be added all the other notes in the song. The song of I Am, which the entire cosmos is both writing, and singing, and hearing all at the same time. I am is the composer and the conductor, the orchestra and the audience, all together here at one time in relationship. I come to this great mystery opening my heart to the feeling-truth of its nature so that every note in the song can penetrate more deeply.
