At the beginning of my walk this morning two long stemmed white roses appeared at my feet. I picked them off the ground, inhaled the intoxicating scent and carried them with me so that I could offer them to the Jewel Tree at the Pier along with the usual offering of rice. When I arrived at the Pier I took notice how the spring season had filled in the landscape with soothing tints of green. I made mental offerings to the tree then approached and noticed that the Pink Angel had also made an offering in white, rich white flowers surrounding a center circle of golden fairy dust. I laid the two white roses horizontally and spread the rice amidst the golden dust. I made my wish and then walked to the track and did the usual sprints and exercises. The feeling of weightlessness had returned which made the sprinting reps fun and quick. I decided to extend the distance from 120 meters to 250 meters. Pull-ups, push-ups and dips are also getting easier due to the peculiar sensation of lightness. No doubt the reduction in food intake the past 30 days has had something to do with this, along with eradicating most sugary foods.
After the track session I walked to the local beach, along the way I passed a group of three people relaxing on the stone steps of the pathway and they noticed my passing and two of them blessed me with big beautiful smiles and shouts of glee. This is nothing unusual due to my personal karma, a combination of an ugly body and a mind trying to tame itself. I'm currently reading a book of dharma and the chapter on anger struck me hard in the face. The meditation master stated that a person who in a previous lifetime was afflicted with great anger would be reborn as an ugly human or animal. Having an acutely ugly body it makes logical sense that I must have done something horribly wrong at some point in the distant past. The good news is that in this lifetime I have learned to tame some of my anger and have so far refused to water the seeds of this powerful force of negative energy. I am becoming convinced that I am a first level human who needs to accumulate as much wisdom as possible before graduating to a higher plane of humanity. During the past year my mind has begun to steep itself in bits and pieces of wisdom, made possible with the help and assistance of the Jewel Trees. In my youth I in no way imagined that in my old age I'd be making daily pilgrimages to Jewel Trees, that my selfhood would be obliterated prior to the destruction of my body, that my mind would become inhabited by someone I had yet to meet, and this new mind would then migrate into a new existence after a shorter or longer period of training.