The Walking Man Hold your question inside for now,
Feeling that your eyes wish to close.
Gently relax the muscles and close out the world just for now.
Breathing peace into every muscle,
Every fiber.
It makes it so easy for you to hear your breathing.
Breathe deeply,
Feeling your body relaxing from this first breath.
As you turn your listening to hear every breath,
You find that you begin to listen to your heart as well.
As you do so,
You find your heart rate responds and slows as you continue to ease.
Your breathing so deep and natural.
Your heartbeat seems to fill your senses now as you find your knowing moving to every part of your being.
You remember to connect with each cell of your being and feel how comfortable you are just being you,
All of you.
You smile as now you remember how you really are more than just you.
You are everything and everywhere all at once.
This knowing comes directly from your heart and now your heart allows you to expand to everywhere there is.
What a feeling to once again be everywhere.
The familiarity of everything.
How wonderful to be back here again.
Slowly you become aware that there is a single point in front of you.
As you focus on this point,
It expands to fill your whole view with a peaceful country scene.
So warm and comfortable.
Welcoming you back to this place you have been so many times before.
And now you are here once again.
There is the comfortable stone bench under the shading limbs of an immense and ancient tree.
As you sit on the bench,
He comes into view.
Approaching at an easy pace,
You see the walking man wave as he catches sight of you where you have met previously the bench under the great tree.
You exchange familiar greetings as he joins you on the bench and begins to untie his bundle.
He places a container of warm water on the bench between you and reaches for his pouch of tea leaves.
Sifting the leaves into the water,
The aroma of the tea again fills your being.
How pleasing it is to be here once more.
He pours the tea into the well-worn cups and you salute as you move the cup for the first sip.
Feeling the warmth past your lips has soothed your entire being as it filters into all you are.
How wonderful it is to acquire this experience once more.
This is how things were meant to be.
The tea expands your awareness and seems to travel directly to where you have held your question.
It flows and swirls around your question,
Moving it into the center of your being where it waits.
Another sip of tea and you gently sit back against the old tree,
Noting the smile the walking man holds as he sees the tea doing just what you came here for it to do.
As you take in the last of your tea,
You feel a wrapper under your question,
Becoming one with it.
Your question expands,
Into all there is,
Then comes back to you,
Just in the very center of who you are.
It is complete with the answer you came here for.
What a feeling of completeness,
Wholeness,
And wonder at it all.
Yet now it seems so simple.
Of course that is the answer.
What else could have come?
You relax your arm and place the cup gently on the bench.
You breathe in the universe and become one with your finding.
You hear the walking man emptying the container of tea and wiping the cups.
All is so perfect and you have the ancient familiar knowing once again.
Just being here,
With the ancient tree,
The ageless walking man,
And the cup of beauty he always seems to bring.
You hear the walking man re-tying his bits and bobs into his bundle.
He gathers his belongings and touches your forehead as he prepares to be on his way.
You meet his gaze and nod your appreciation for his arrival and his care.
As he is moving out of view,
You turn your head and smile at his departure.
Not too curious about where he will be next or when you will meet again.
Expressing your gratitude to all there is for this gift,
Once more you rise and touch the old tree and things.
Your hand lingers on the arm of the stone bench as you turn to leave.
What beauty it is to be part of all this and to regain it,
Just by remembering,
Allowing,
Being.
Allow yourself to feel the wisdom gained here and now.
The knowing of the universe and the very special soul you are.
All of this love and this knowing will always be in your heart just because you allow it to be.
As we return to this body,
This time,
And this space,
As you join body and soul,
Allow yourself to feel the beauty,
To be the beauty,
The wisdom,
And the knowing.
This beauty is always yours and as long as you allow,
You will always walk in beauty in this body,
This time,
This place.
Fully together and ready to come back now.
And welcome back.
