Which is sacred – The fast-food box floating at the lake edge or the swallows zooming over the surface hunting? Practicing Taiji, my bliss in the present moment deepens while I dance with the darting swallows. The Styrofoam interrupts. How to find the sacred even there? Bobbing beautifully, dazzling light – Ah.
Can you hear the heavenly choir in the lawnmower? Can you hear it sing in the leaf blower? (The big park lawn mower was swooping around me as I practiced my morning Taiji as it does each Monday morning.
Can you find the Sacred Present in litter floating in the pristine lake?
After all, you spend more time with these things than in the so-called Sacred places. Wouldn’t it be useful to learn to find the Sacred anywhere any time?
You can. Just listen to the sounds of the lawnmower. Just be with them. Without judging. Without resisting.
I often tighten up when I hear unpleasant sounds and research shows noise pollution amongst the worst forms of pollution regarding the effects on human and animal health.
When I just listen, relax the cringing, the Holy Angels sing inside the lawn mower and even the leaf blower.
The Styrofoam? As I removed it from my lake, I was mesmerized by the beauty of the light on it and the way the wavelets caressed it and the way the Styrofoam played at the very top surface of the water. My mind was quiet. I was as peaceful and full of light as the most serene meditation.
So, where is the sacred? Find some trash and be with it.
Blessings,
William
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