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spontaneously happened when I decided to go for a walk one day. An Overflow of Presence in the Physical 15th August 2011 I walked through lush green paths which were behind my house. As I did often back then, I walked mindfully, and like a Buddhist monk, I did my best to not engage in thoughts or emotions that would distract me from focusing on every single step I took, and also from connecting with the nature around me. I was enjoying my walk; my mind was that of a Zen student, impartial but highly aware, non-labelling but acutely discerning. As I walked down one path, a mother with a baby in her pram was walking in my direction, and as they went past me, I spontaneously seemed to have reached an inner threshold. I was flooded with one of the most sublime feelings I have ever had while in the physical. To my shock, some kind of energy, call it the aura of a mother and her baby, had crescendoed a sort of surrendering of my 'egoic wall of perception', giving way for only the sacred intelligence of my heart and awareness to operate unhindered and untainted. My emotions, which I thought I had under perfect control beforehand, suddenly burst like an erupting geyser. Within seconds I flooded with tears as my whole experience opened up to me as if all the walls of my perception had suddenly collapsed; the reality I was now perceiving was singing a beautiful chorus into all my senses. Everything I looked at was new, vibrant and full of life. The sounds of birds and everything around me was so pure and innocent, I felt I had been given new ears of super-hearing abilities. I looked around me, raptured in awe as if I had awakened from a dream. I could suddenly see the sun's rays in the air and how its loving luminosity penetrated everything it touched, including how my body absorbed its life-giving essence. The lavish nature around me suddenly became