ZeN mOdE 📿📿 LoCk dOwN diaries–1
Deep in
their
roots all
flowers
keep the
light…
( words ~ ` ~ Theodore Roethke, Flower:Crepe myrtle 💜💜)
Apply Within…
You once told me
You wanted to find
Yourself in the world –
And I told you to
First apply within,
To discover the world
within you.
You once told me
You wanted to save
The world from all its wars –
And I told you to
First save yourself
From the world,
And all the wars
Through.
( words : APPLY WITHIN by Suzy Kassem” )
The songs of trees…
We are all
Trees…
.
The Green
smoke…
Listen to
it’s songs
…your own soul…
All our wisdom
is stored
in the Trees…
~`~ Santosh Kalwar
..Universe in
ecstatic
motion…
~`~ Rumi
Our most intimate
contact with
Nature…
~`~ George Nakashima
Natya…(dance)
There will be no wisdom, no learning,
no art, nor craft, no device,
nor action that is not found within
natya.
~ ` ~ Sage Bharatha, Natya Shastra
Let’s Pause…
Too often in life we pass by
Important things.
Let’s pause, change perspective &
See things more clearly.
~`~ Sergio de silva
( Corbett national park,India)
Let go…
When I finally learned to let go of
having to totally control everything
around me and let my life unfold,
I was stunned by the results…
~ ` ~ Geri Larkin
Enduring & Real…
To look for a form or search
for a
sound
is to stumble down the
wrong path .
The wisdom that cannot be thought,
alone reveals that which
is enduring and
real…
~ ` ~ Zen
Breathe in…
Breathe in with the deep awareness that you are a
human being.
Then breathe out and touch the earth,
a non-man element, as your mother.
Visualize the streams of water beneath the Earth’s
surface.
See the minerals .See our Mother Earth, the Mother of
us all.
Then bring your arms up and breathe in again, touching the
trees, flowers, fruits, birds, squirrels, air and sky– the
non-elements.
When your head is touching the air, the sun, the moon,
the galaxies, the cosmos–non-man elements that have
come together in order to make man possible–you see
that all of the elements are coming into you to make your
being possible.
Breathing in again, stretch your arms and be aware that you also penetrate other
elements.
Man helps make the other elements possible.
( Words : Thich Nhat Hanh )
Sparkle…
I am pretty sure that
when we sparkle
individually, we
Heal + shine
collectively.
~ ` ~ Tanya Markul
Wishing you all a happy &peaceful
new year ❤ ❤
Who Am I …?
I am That I am..
I am that which I have created myself to be.
~ ` ~ The Gita
I am the answer you were not
expecting…
I exist
As I am.
That is enough.
~ ` ~ Walt Whitman
Knowing yourself is the beginning of
all
wisdom.
~ ` ~ Aristotle
Many have an Image of me.
Few get the
picture…
I regret opening up to
some people.
They didn’t deserve to
know me like that.
~ ` ~ Gold-Kushkloudz
Wondering on
myself,
by myself,
for myself…
I am a thinker
Not a talker…
I have travelled
through madness
to
find me…
Don’t ask
anyone
but me,
about me…
I am shy at first but…
I do the stupidest random
things when I
get comfortable
with someone…
I
hate being
Shy…
Never have I dealt with
anything more
difficult than my
own soul…
You don’t know me…
I put back my pieces,
differently.
( words: Internet )
Heart seeks…
From the clamor of crowds I flee,
my heart seeks
The kind of silence that would
mesmerize speech itself.
~ ` ~ An Urdu poem
A Soul’s journey…
Art is the journey of
a
free soul.
~ ` ~ Alev Oguz
take your journey
change your body
find your
soul
U don’t have a soul
you are a soul
You have a body
~ ` ~ C.S Lewis
Quiet the mind
&
the soul will
speak
~ ` ~ Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
In a world where
everyone wears a
mask,
It’s a privilege to see
a soul.
~ ` ~ Anon
You have a
soul…
Born Fisherman…
You were born to be a fisherman as the
fish was born to be a
fish…
You loved him when
he was
alive…
and you loved him
after…
Fishing kills me exactly
as it keeps me
alive…
( words: Ernest Hemingway ~ ` ~ The old man & the sea )
Pieces of me…
I like the way
that feels…
It’s as if you know
me better…
Than I ever know
myself…
I love how you can
tell…
All the pieces, pieces, pieces
of me…
( words; Ashlee Simpson )
True path…
Truth is one
&
the true path is one.
It does not belong to
anybody.
Its nobody’s
property.
it is only one!
there are not many paths really.
Many people walk on the
path,
but the path is one.
And it is so vast
they may not meet
each
other
( words: Osho’s teachings )
Heart Wanders…
Clouds heap upon clouds & it
darkens…
I keep gazing on the far away gloom
of the sky, & my
heart wanders wailing with the
restless mind.
~ ` ~ Rabindranath Tagore (Gitanjali)
Poetry…
There are poems
inside you
that paper can’t
handle
Painting is silent
poetry
&
poetry is painting
that speaks
~ ` ~ Nikos KAzantzakis
You have your brush
you have your colors, you
paint paradise,
then in you go.
~ ` ~ Adrienne Rich
Not the flower but the Fragrance…
You ask me ,
” can you tell us what is the purpose of creation ? ”
The world has never been created.
It has always been here ,
it is eternal.
There is no creator of the world :
God is not the creator of the world …
god is the
very creative energy of existence —
creativity rather than a creator.
He is not the poet but
the poetry…
Not the dancer
but the dance….
not the flower but
the fragrance…
~~~~~The Dhammapada
( the way of Buddha )