An early-morning ‘moment’ that happened to Shastro.
I want to share with you something beautiful that happened this morning.
I got up as usual around 7am and while I was making my tea I looked out of the window at the meadow near the forest (I live in the country, in a secluded spot).
There were a dozen fallow deer, three adult males with magnificent antlers and a few females with their young ones… They were quietly eating grass in the early morning light.
I took my binoculars to see them up close… and so was able to ‘enter’ into the energy of their moment, so peaceful and in union with nature. I immediately felt very quiet too, sensing the peace and harmony they were in… as if I were there among them, in that silence.
Suddenly a female lifts her head up from the grass and looks straight at me. Now I have to explain that between me and them there are at least 150 metres of fields and bushes. There is no one else nearby and I am inside the house, behind a glass window – and I don’t even know if I am visible from outside because of the reflection of the glass… and above all, I haven’t made the slightest noise.
Yet she keeps looking, I can almost see her eyes… motionless… and I too look at her through my powerful binoculars. Then more and more eyes begin to point towards me… They are not frightened but just alert, very present… there is no doubt they are looking at ME! Yet my mind is dazed and wonders ‘how is it possible they know I am here and am watching them?’
I am invisible, I make no noise and yet… yet they FEEL me.
I keep looking at them and they look at me. And my mind relaxes into the realisation that we are feeling each other, we are connected, and we are silently sharing this magical moment. I feel an expansion in my chest as this feeling takes space inside of me: we are all part of the same life force that pervades this immense universe. That is why we feel… A transmission is happening that is beyond the comprehension of my small mind.
My heart expands as I feel the love for these beings with whom I share this planet, I feel their innocence, their purity and their absolute presence.
Unhurriedly one of the males approaches the forest and enters it, and little by little they all follow him and disappear from my sight.
I remain there, motionless, with tears in my eyes, in that silence, made of a loving stillness, of innocent presence, of feeling part of a whole so immense and magnificent in its perfection… and I return to finish preparing my cup of tea, with a presence that is the most beautiful gift that this day – which has just begun – could bring me.
3/14/2022
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