{"id":1045,"date":"2009-08-02T14:51:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T21:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2009-08-04T16:42:27","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T23:42:27","slug":"natures-tinnitus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=1045","title":{"rendered":"Nature’s Tinnitus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nNot quite in a sitting meditation near my tiny solar water garden, I was aware of the gurgles between the lily pads, the birds peeping in the tall bushes that line the parameter of the yard and the occasional mechanics from the quarry to the west.<\/p>\n

All the usual backyard symphony players in our little outdoor home amphitheater.<\/p>\n

But there was one sound I could not place.\u00a0 It seemed familiar yet I just could not name that tune within my cerebral media library.\u00a0 Had the drone originated inside of my own head it would have been my familiar tinnitus adding to the concert de jour.<\/p>\n

But this sound was not part of my internal vibrations; it was coming from the north.\u00a0 It seemed fixed in place, not on the move like the bird song or the jet engines over head.<\/p>\n

I tried to listen closer, to isolate the hum from the other voices in the garden.\u00a0 Yet everything was melting together and the separate nature of the waves impossible to discern from the auditory ocean.<\/p>\n

Just then a memory appeared on my internal LCD.\u00a0 It was many years ago.\u00a0 I could see myself walking around a tree farm with my family.\u00a0 The air was crisp, not like the balmy weather of a SoCal summer today.<\/p>\n

In the remembrance, I heard this same hum coming from over head and looking upwards I could see a swarm of bees busy in migration.\u00a0 No doubt they were aloft following the queen.<\/p>\n

Opening my eyes and looking up to my own trees beside the tall hedges, I saw hundreds of busy worker bees at task in the branches.\u00a0 Perhaps they were pollinating the birch buds\u00a0or otherwise enjoying a garden meditation of their own.<\/p>\n

Funny how the unidentified drone turned out to be many drones on the move.\u00a0 Nature’s tinnitus.<\/p>\n

Mystery unraveled, I closed my eyes and listened to the remaining stanzas of the ensemble within a more\u00a0 formal Zazen sit atop a stone zafu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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