I was walking in the forest after three weeks in Zen. My heart, eyes, ears and soul were awake. Along the path I came across the most magnificent flower, truly it was awesome. I stopped, frozen in my tracks, a perfect moment in time. 

I wanted to sustain that perfect moment, where my Human Nature and Nature were all just one: connected. I started to move backward so as not to disturb the scene but that changed the situation. I stopped. I started to move forward so as to be closer to the experience, but that disturbed the perfection. I found myself frozen in time. A magnificent space to be in - this experience in the real world of nature and after three weeks in Zen, was how I finally learned meditation.

The emptiness of this experience was, at first, horribly challenging. I wasn't me. I'd evaporated in a moment of unconditional being. Inspired.