Your "Zen Moment"

[Fljotsdale]

Couple of years ago I was on holiday with my eldest daughter on the borders of Devon and Cornwall, on the coast. There was a little, almost landlocked bay - and a storm was coming. We went out in the dark and the wind and the rain (VERY windy, VERY rainy!) and stood on the beach (it was b****y freezing!) getting soaked in the spray from these massive waves that hurling themselves at the rocky walls of the bay - It was glorious, exhilarating, wonderful. I don't think I shall ever forget it.

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Originally posted by Sazerac: In 1988, while camping in the Rocky Mountain National Park...we were just below the Timberline. Right after the sun went down, we heard the wolves calling to each other...it sounded like it was from every mountaintop... ...and I went into a deep reverie. I communed with them; I could hear their language; they have syllables, pulse, meter, rhythm, and I realized the deep intelligence of these beings and that their level of communication approaches ours in complexity and in thought process... and that memory remains with me to this day. Wolf is truly a unique being.

Saz,
Are you aware that the wolf has the closest thing to the human race that you can find in the whole animal world in the form of their vocalizations?
Neat fact.
I love the wolves.


Moni



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I am a small part Native American~Apache to be exact~one of my most memorable Zen Moments occured in the desert of southwest AZ...I was standing alone in an area where nothing of modern man could be seen (telephone poles and such)...it was just me and nature.
As I reflected on the original Navtive American Indians that inhabited the land I stood on so many years ago, I pondered when the last time one of God's people had stood on that particular piece of ground that I was on. In what had been perfectly still air, a quick breeze blew past me and "whispered the answer in my ear".
"There is one here right now"
"Me?" I questioned.
The breeze circled and whipped around and past me again. "Of course, who did you think I was talking about?"
As the air became still again, I felt complete oneness with the universe around me. It is a feeling I have never lost.


Moni

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[SSJ4Sephiroth]

id probably hafta say that the only one i really remember was today actually. i was just sitting outside, watching the clouds go by from the ground. i just love watching the scenery from down here, altho id love it even more from above.

[caleb]

Camping next to a lake in arizona after a long day of fishing with my grandfather and waking up at night looking down a ravine at a herd of burrows/mules getting a drink from the lake.....then doing a flying leap for my cot when I noticed a big hairy tarantula 2 feet from me.

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BOW TO THE BISCUIT KING AND HIS THRONE OF SCONE!!!

[Epona]

When I saw the temple at Abu Simbel (Egypt). I just couldn't believe how big it was. We had been in a bus, just an ordinary bus used by locals - not an air conditioned coach (this was in '94 when tourists were being targetted by terrorists, 8 people had been shot the night before so we were deliberately avoiding 'tourist transport', it's also more fun to meet the locals) - for hours driving through a road in the Sahara desert, holes in the floor, insects buzzing around us, seeing mirages like lakes on the sand. We arrived hot and uncomfortable, left the bus and rounded the corner and WOW! Absolutely awesome.

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Epona of The Laughing Hyenas

[Larry_OHF]

Check this out...sometimes, when me and my band are playing, I can close my eyes and just go into my zone. That means that I have no idea where I am going with what I am playing, but my comrads pick up on it and they go there with me, and we are making musc without knowing what note or beat will even hapen next. Somehow, we are on beat, pausing, changing course, etc, and we flow right along with each other, as though we had practiced that for centuries. Others times, when the ZONE does not call me...we cannot pull off magic like that. (None of us drink, smoke, etc. for those that are wondering).

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Larry,
Loyal guardian of the OHF
Devoted member of the Ironworks
Only member of the Elite Bodyguard to Rikard (the fool that takes the bullet)
Ertai's back-up
Memnoch's chief look-out

[AliCat]

I was taking flying lessons, working on my private pilot's license in South Dakota. The day I soloed, the sun was setting, slowly, turning the cotton-candy cumulus clouds a rosy pink. I did about four takeoffs and landings (touch and gos) before taxiing back. Flying solo for the first time, and instead of watching the sunset from below, I was up with those pink fluffy clouds in the middle of the beauty. That was a perfect moment.

[Mouse]

Originally posted by AliCat: I was taking flying lessons, working on my private pilot's license in South Dakota. The day I soloed, the sun was setting, slowly, turning the cotton-candy cumulus clouds a rosy pink. I did about four takeoffs and landings (touch and gos) before taxiing back. Flying solo for the first time, and instead of watching the sunset from below, I was up with those pink fluffy clouds in the middle of the beauty. That was a perfect moment.

Come on now and 'fess up - it was really when you discovered the magic of root vegetables, wasn't it?



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Regards



Mouse

Originally posted by Larry_OHF: Check this out...sometimes, when me and my band are playing, I can close my eyes and just go into my zone. That means that I have no idea where I am going with what I am playing, but my comrads pick up on it and they go there with me, and we are making musc without knowing what note or beat will even hapen next. Somehow, we are on beat, pausing, changing course, etc, and we flow right along with each other, as though we had practiced that for centuries. Others times, when the ZONE does not call me...we cannot pull off magic like that. (None of us drink, smoke, etc. for those that are wondering).

Larry,
That's just awesome!