I want to try to discribe this walk I went on the other evening. I just finished meditation so I was already on a considerable high. Then I went out and took one of my usual walks along a canal near-bye. There's a nice, old farm cross the bank, on the other side. Geese  and ducks running loose, a couple of ponies for the kids, a goat, and all those kind of things.

Anyway, as I reached the end of the canal, and came to the main road, I saw this little lane that disappeared completely from sight as it turned the corner behind some trees...and I thought: "I've never been up that lane before. I wonder where it goes." So I crossed over and started walking along it.

It was such a pretty lane. It was evening and the sun was already low in the sky and all around me was vast expanses of cultivated agricultural land and trees, with all kinds of things growing on it. I came to a fork in the road and stood for ages just trying to decide which way to go. Both ways looked quite delightful and mysterious too ...I mean, who knows what's waiting just round the next corner? It felt somehow exciting.

Finally ...I decided to walk towards where the sun was going down. I could see some woods in the distance and I love walking in the woods. All the time I was walking I was still holding on to a meditative state. Keeping my mind almost completely empty and having my concentration tuned as sharp as a knife, while my breathing was slow and deep as if I were sleeping. Totally relaxed - Totally concentrated.

So I started walking along the lane looking with fascination at the cute rows of

baby cabbages in the ground nearby. My heart went out completely to them all. I felt such love and wonder for everything I saw. It was all so heavenly. But it's hard to explain why. The colours of everything shone with a light of their own. I came to another road junction and again had to pause while I came to grips with my indecision concerning which way I might go.

Finally I made up my mind and followed a lane that took me past farmhouses and cottages with the prettiest gardens that I have ever seen around here. They reminded me of the typical English cottage garden a lot. There was a girl, with blonde hair, going round on her bike delivering the evening paper to each house.

This tired, old dog came out to take a look at me and I showed it some brief affection and carried on.. till I came to the next junction -

OH!!! DISCISIONS... DISCISIONS

Once I had made up my mind which way to go. I followed the lane that went in the direction of the woodlands near-bye. I remember a farmer driving a tractor past me on the road and then I came to a dirt track that lead up towards the woods with fields either side. There was a huge metal tank used for storing something or other in the center of one of the fields, half concealed amongst some trees and bushes.

When I reached the woods everything seemed to still and peaceful. Not a soul to be seen or heard anywhere...I was just on my own in the trees..but you were there with me too ...if you know what I mean?! I explored along the different tracks that criss-crossed between the trees and having exhausted them all ...and also exhausted myself ...I decided to start heading back home. I went back to the road and the papergirl was still there going from house to house delivering.

I always try to return home by a different route than the one I came by and this evening was no exception. I followed a road that was heading more or less in the right direction and it took me past fields of cultivated flowers standing in long straight rows. Some were rows of deep purple flowers and other was white. There were also just a few white flowers amidst the purple ones and a few purple flowers amidst the white ones too. ..I liked that!!!

I just stood for ages talking it all in. Even the papergirl managed to overtake me again. It was just all so heavenly. I just need to take my time to take it all in.

Finally I arrived back to the main road but at a different point from where I had originally started. Some teenagers where riding along the bicycle paths on their mopeds ...having fun. I noticed some bright yellow marsh marigolds growing between some water-lily leaves in a ditch that run alongside the road. I sat down and just looked at them for ages, fascinated by their light.

I was being to feel so tired by then. Not by the physical effort of walking but because of the mental effort of holding onto such intense concentration for almost one and a half hours. I started to feel a bit weak and remembered that I hadn't really eaten so much that day. So I headed off again back home. I was getting REALLY hungry by now. STARVING, in fact...yet even as I walk along the last few streets that lead back home I noticed how the familiar ..now seemed new and unfamiliar.

Everything glowed with a kind of light and the smallest and most mundane things took on a whole, new meaning. I hardly recognized my own street anymore. Everything had changed.

Of course, it was only my state of mind that was intoxicated ..but it was GREAT.

I'm just sorry that I can't explain it better ..That's all.

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