The large, ruffled dog sat on the edge of the cool water that lapped gently at the bright sands. He had found that the place he had been instructed to meditate in - Serendipity Shores - was most beautiful and filled with life, even if one wouldn't know it at first glance. Life thrummed in low waves and tide pools, around him in the trees and small plants that wove and sung with the wind in the sands, and even above him as albatrosses and gulls cried in the air.
The energy of the ocean also sang to him, Ansui noticed as he sat with his eyes closed and his legs in a cross-legged manner, meditating and allowing the energy of the place to flow over him and calm his mind. It whispered to him as it gently moved over the shore again and again, a never ending cycle that had started long before Ansui and any of the other forms of life he had encountered had graced the earth.
He allowed his mind to first reach outside of him, into the waves and the trees and the sand and the energy within the air - allowed his mind to touch each of them in turn, taking in their sounds and scents and the feelings they gave off. The sand was warm, and the sound it made as the wind swept across it was gentle, smooth, akin to the sea that it neighbored. The plants danced also with the sand, waving their stems in tune with the blowing of the breeze.
All of these senses came to the great dog that sat, not apart from, but with the beach, with it in his mind and body and soul. His mind was blank, not observing the creatures and the energy that they emitted, not making notes about the sea and the sand and the wind, but being one with it, allowing himself to merge with it so that it was indistinguishable to him whether it was him that blew across the beach and made the reeds sway, or whether it was just the breeze...
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