Last night I re-read notes I took from my last meeting with Aastha.
“You and your twin can only interact in the present moment.”
On the drive to my walk by the water, I asked myself: “Even if you don’t think its possible to be mindful all the time, imagine what it’d look like and feel like to be mindful right now.”
So I did. And it lasted longer than I thought it would. And as I sat on my bench looking at the water, amongst the breeze and the waves in the wake, I acheived presence.
The water seemed so alive. So “large.” A lot more than how it appears in the photo. I felt how I do when I’m at the beach standing before the ocean. Where the scene feels overwhelming and commanding.
It’s hard to capture what I felt, but if I had to, I guess I’d say: “Soon I went from being the person watching the water to: “just being.” But there was almost something so much more than that. More profound.
“This must be what it means to feel no separation from nature.”