Hiking in the redwoods was absolutely amazing! The forest remained completely silent except for one Varied Thrush singing its beautifully contemplative song. http://macaulaylibrary.org/audio/42254 .Featuring a series of sustained single notes - each with a long pause in between - this call never fails to bring me into the profound silence of Wilderness Insight Meditation. Here, each thought, emotion and perception is like an echo of a divine love-word whose original sound is hidden, yet which resounds - like the song of the Varied Thrush - at the root of all things. Later in the hike, we could hear the roar of ocean waves crashing in the far distance, yet resounding within the intimate depths of the forest!
Photos: (Top) Rhododendron Flower and a fire-scarred Redwood; (Middle) Beautifully-textured Redwoods; (Bottom) Fern growing in
moss on a Big-Tooth Maple. All three photos were taken in Redwood
National Park, CA on July 26, 2015
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