CHANTING CHANGES EVERYTHING...

...EXCEPT THE FACTS.

The practice of chanting can lift and clarify, increase light and lighten matter, illuminate and vibrate.

At some point during the hour long repetitions of a forty verse Sanskrit hymn of praise, a memory popped into my head--and immediately became visceral--a whole body memory of being at Ananda ashram on a Spring morning over a decade ago.
(Ma Bhaskarananda waving from the cabin I was given one summer)

I had been occupying the little one-room cabin on a slope of green, and tumbled out of bed one day to wander into the woody places where I came upon a vision--so many, many clumps of yellow in between the green like streams of sunlight running through the ground--it was a materialization of  the well known "host of golden daffodils."  Someone, sometime had planted naturalizing bulbs, which did what all naturalizing bulbs do given optimal conditions--they spread!  It was glorious then and glorious again last night.
(Where we chanted)

I got a ride all the way home.
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Quite enough for Tuesday

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Here it is Wednesday evening

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"Look and you will find it--what is unsought will go undetected."
-Sophocles-