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A journey to SIBERIA to study people, life, and happiness.

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On the day after I arrived in Corsica, I had my best meditation yet.

I´d finished a writing task, and so my mind was unencumbered.  The air was dark and silent, and I sat on a wild, grassy lawn facing St. Florent´s bay.  I slowly ceased thinking.

Lights from St. Florent´s village, far across the bay, cast a mystical illumination on the trunks of slender trees near me.  For thirty minutes, the cool bay air floated around.

The bare, white, fork-shaped tree to the right lulled me will-lessly to standing position.  The tree´s base was a hardy, glowing cylinder; its middle contrasted against the dark plants behind; its two forking fingers pointed sharply upward, twelve feet from the ground.  Its middle glowed.  Its bottom bulged up through the dark-green ground.  The middle was sturdy, strong.  The top´s glowing points dazzled in the air.

And then, Justin was gone.  The tree´s form was felt.  And its form, in many ways, was defined by the form of the air and plants around it.  The air and plants around it were me.  I stepped around the grassy lawn, feeling the forms of lit-up plants and glowing trees.  It was like being in a museum: observe but don´t interact.  If one would´ve painted a picture of the scene from afar, I wouldn´t have been in it.

I got too excited by this successful meditation, and so my mind returned me to my ego.  Peaceably, I slept in my tent.


- Modern Oddyseus

"Perfect Ecstasy is possible at any time, for any length of time." - Kerouac


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7.MONDAY EVENING SAMADHI - St. Florent, France Mar 26, 2007
8.NOT SO FAST! - St. Florent, France Mar 27, 2007 ( This entry has 3 photos 3 )
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