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. (50 words.)

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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