Tracking

From my original blog, "Elementals" July 2005:

In Indianapolis last night, I bought another Tom Brown book, Tom Brown's Field Guide: Nature Observation and Tracking, not because I want to be a tracker, but because his exercises in expanding awareness are the best there are. His tracking school starts with the premise that to track something, you must be it, merging yourself with the spirit of all-there-is.

Which is what I'm after.

I've been doing his Sacred Silence meditation for a couple of weeks, now, and it has drawn me in, making it easier and easier to do each day, and not harder and harder. I find that I miss it when my mind begins to race. I the past I've seen meditation as a should, something that I knew I ought to be doing, but which seemed like a pointless chore. Sacred Silence meditation and the other things which spring from it are so much more alive than mere mediation, so much richer, that it seems like no work at all and indeed is no work. Instead it's being more alive and being wed to the immediate moment.

So much like music-making.

I find that this form of meditation is something that, the more I do it, the more I want to. And I bring back more of myself each time, gathering more bits of my lost and wandering spirit along the way.
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