yes

Yes!

I am sitting on a rock on a steep hillside, facing west. The sun is sinking low towards, the end of the day. It has been cloudy all day, but now the sun has emerged from behind that blanket of cloud. And before me, I see valleys and hills. There are trees, woods, some green terraces where wheat is being grown, and a couple of tiny villages perched precariously on hillsides. I hear birds, and way down in the bottom of the valley there is a stream. I can hear it too, and now and again the voices of other people carried to me from a kilometre away across the valley. The air is still.

This moment is divine. And sensing all this... no, that's not the right word, being all this, a huge yes bubbles up from somewhere deep inside me. It's as if every cell in my body is vibrating with a positive attitude to this moment. Yes.

This moment is perfect. Nothing needs to be changed, not a single atom. And I realise that this feeling, this direct being perfection, comes when I put myself aside, when I simply sit and open myself to existence. And then I disappear, and there is all this, all this beauty in form, shapes, colours, sounds. It intoxicates me.

In a moment such as this, one can die in peace. There's nothing needing to be done, nothing needing to be achieved. Yes.