Green Mountain State

Green Mountain State – by Trevor Hall.

I recorded this on my sailboat Chat d’O.

View this song with a slide show of photos taken while sailing the west side of Lanai, Hawaii.

In many spiritual traditions they believe in some form of reincarnation.

In many Hindu traditions, they practice the Dharma and follow a Sadhana that offers liberation from the inherent pain & suffering caused by not knowing our True Self or the Absolute Reality of what’s before & after this life… the philosopher’s quintessential “meaning of Life”.

They believe this process will take a long time… many lifetimes.

They assume that it will take more lifetimes than there are leaves on a forest of trees.

So in this song, “I call to the ladders and leaves.”

“I call on the ones we don’t see”.

This about the seeker that is curious how many life times will it take before ‘Enlightenment’ is achieved, calling on the transcended Masters for those Wisdoms.

Serious ‘seekers’ will no doubt find a ‘Way’…

A ‘Way’ that is revealed in one’s ‘Inner Silence’ that regardless of how  far along towards the Enlightened to our True Self Realization…

That this holy, Divine, Sacred, Absolute state of Being…

Is Always Already Alright.

There is nothing “we” … our egos, can do to mess up this ‘almighty Divinity’ that is

our True Nature.

Sure,

We can suffer our whole lives with the ignorance of our True nature,

like most people in this life do.

But that won’t have any effect on what comes next.

And,

Whatever does come next will remain beyond the ability of mere spoken or written words to describe.

For the curious ‘seeker’ that applies the ‘Right Effort’,

there are ‘Ways’ to get a deeper understanding of these ineffable Wisdoms…

But even the most profoundly ‘Enlightened’ ones will not be able to

simply tell someone exactly what it will feel like….

At best,

they can only point towards a direction to take your Path that will reveal more & more such ‘Wisdoms’.

The song mentions:

“In the house way down by the lake…

A story told in a mystic way.”

The Thailand Forest Monk – Ajahn Chan describes quieting the mind like a ‘still forest pond’.

Then, its reflections become Pure.

The photos were taken from our sailboat while sailing on the west side of Lanai.

We have sailed over 35,000 miles so far not counting my decades of windsurfing obsessions…

You could say that…

“My song was born on the wind” …

Like the 10-day Spiritual journey called Vipassana…

With my nautical lifestyle … I create a ‘Seapassana’… a spiritual place I call home.

Our sailboat Chat d'O anchored in Hanalei Bay Kauai under a rainbow.
Our sailboat Chat d’O anchored in Hanalei Bay Kauai under a rainbow.

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The Start of 2020

Our business was doing great, but we still couldn’t afford to buy a house or a condo. Renting in Maui for another 30 years was not an option we wanted to take. Then, Bobbie Jo suggested we buy a sailboat that is comfortable to cruise and live in. By the end of January, we started looking for our new home.

After a long search, we found our dream boat in Mazatlan, Mexico. COVID-19 was not yet a concern when our boat hunt began, but masks were starting to appear at airports by the time we flew to Mazatlan. Originally, we had planned to get the boat ready as fast as possible to cover a full calendar for the busy wedding season. However, it was apparent our business was going to tank amid the pandemic, and the struggle went on until the end of the year.

Luckily, we scored an awesome condo for only $19 a day at Mazatlan. On the 10th day of our stay, we received the news that all harbors will be closed the next Monday morning. We thought we’d be stuck in Mexico longer, but another sailor advised us to leave before sunrise.

We felt the adrenalin of escaping the Mexican harbor master just before the sun rose that faithful day. The seas were rough as waves were building up in the tight channel that led us to the open ocean. We ended up anchored off an adorable little isle just a mile offshore. We enjoyed cruising to many spectacular anchorages and cute villages on our way to Puerto Vallarta, where we would depart for Maui on May 7. On May 30, 2020, we completed our 24-day passage from Mexico to Maui.