Atop
The lush has taken over. Once spindled branches and silent stalks have emerged to their fullness. I feel the wild again, that only sun can bring. A gregarious green grimaces outside my window, obscuring my once unconditional view, speaking of life. As wind rustles these leaves, and flowers fawn for bees, I feel fresh. A space inside, free from my urge to hide, bounds forth into the promise of summer.
As the turn of the season approaches, I observe myself yet unturned, witnessing my worry of time’s march. Have I come into the ripeness I now see all around? I am reminded of my love of the lush — a promise I make to the trees and tide, to bloom and grow, ebb and flow.
Children chirp alongside their feathered friends outside my window in a mellifluous merging. The heat has not yet assumed its humbling posture, and instead invites movement and play, sound and song, free from the encumbrance of jackets and jeans. If I quiet myself, I can hear the whispers of the wild from these sidewalk games.
Where is my wild, and does it guard the ripeness I seek? I find wild hides in no place and time, and instead resonates with great nature’s gait. I hear my wild inside, behind closed eyes, a rising tide.
My ripeness sits not atop some hill; I have instead found it in the still, silent will. This ripeness I seek exists at no peak, but instead peeks through transitions and transformations, bringing me into another wondrous new cycle.
From Our Oracles
Virtue has decayed — or rather mistaken ideas of virtue have created decay, and these unstable thoughts have created defeat. Seek freedom from rigid dualism; ego attachments to virtue and vice, success and defeat, good and evil. Recognize that thinking of oneself, or humans, as “special” creates separation, imbalance, and lays the groundwork for conceptions of virtue that inevitably decay. Seeing with this clarity empowers all individuals’ inner truths, which frees us to give and receive help from within and without.
Some Happenings
Adrian hosts a breathwork and sound meditation experience every Wednesday at 7:45PM at Happie Space. Come breakthrough into expanded states of consciousness through intense rhythmic breathing and then recharge with blissfully meditative sounds. Reserve your spot using the Happie Space App (iOS, Android), MindBody, or ClassPass.
We will also be hosting a private extended sound meditation mid-June. If this sounds interesting to you, we encourage you to reach out!
Some Sound
A short wing (xylophone-ish instrument) meditation
Some Links
🐲 Secrets of the carnyx (a wind instrument of the Iron Age Celts)
💧 The sound of Suikinkutsu (Japanese garden water harp)
🌌 The Nightingale’s Song - An Interview with Sam Lee, a folk singer, writer, and song collector who duets with nightingales
🕯 R.I.P Vangelis (legendary composer). Here is an interview he did few years ago.
We’ve been listening to:
Echo by Catrin Finch and Sekou Kieta
The Song of the Golden Dragon (video) by Estas Tonne
Keshava Murahara by Alice Coltrane
Didgerihang by OCNO
Purification Mantra of the Five Elements by Drukmo Gyal
Some Words
Speak as the moon Soon To my ocean Touch as the tide Rides My shores Hear breath In the trees Dancing with their leaves See sands Duning new mountains Just for today Smell the sap Sweetening life And rise to play