SEIZA SUNSET

sitting in seiza

sunset...waves crash...wind blowing

consciousness expands

at First Landing State Park on the Chesapeake Bay beach off the main boardwalk, to the right, past the dunes, looking at the pelicans perched on the posts that go out to sea...here is where i sit in seiza facing the sunset each day during our one week family vacation...i see colors, feel the vibration of the sun setting, hear waves crashing, the sucking, pulling sound of dissipated waves returning to the ocean, wind blows over my naked arms and back, tosseling my hair out of place across my eyes, feeling sand beneath my legs and buttocks grounds me to earth...senses on fire but not ablaze...consciousness EXPANDS, i become these things, merge, becoming each other...the feeling-state comes and goes...i don't know that i'd want it to be a permanent state as it would be hard to function in everyday life.

sit yourself comfortably on the ground (or in a chair) with your bare feet touching the earth, attune to each of your senses in turn, describing out loud or silently what you witness, then let it all go and just BE...allow whatever needs to happen arise and let go, over and over...arising and going...perhaps among these comings and goings you too will experience a state of expanded consciousness.