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ZeN mOdE 📿📿 LoCk dOwN diaries–1

 

 

Deep in

 

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their 

 

 

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roots all

 

 

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flowers

 

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keep the

 

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light…

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( words ~ ` ~  Theodore Roethke,  Flower:Crepe myrtle 💜💜)


Mother…

 

Mother

Who,s 

Always

There…

 

 

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Always Home…

 

Where are we

Going?

Always home

 

 

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Apply Within…

 

 

You once told me

 
You wanted to find

 
Yourself in the world –

 

 

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And I told you to

 
First apply within,

 
To discover the world

 
within you.

 

 

 

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You once told me

 
You wanted to save

 
The world from all its wars –

 

 

 

 

 

 

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And I told you to

 
First save yourself

 
From the world,

 
And all the wars

 

 
Through.

 

 

 

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( words : APPLY WITHIN by Suzy Kassem” )


The songs of trees…

We are all 

 

Trees…

 

 

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.

The Green

  smoke…

 

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Listen to 

it’s songs

…your own soul…

 

 

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All our wisdom

is stored 

in the Trees…

   ~`~ Santosh Kalwar

 

 

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..Universe in

ecstatic 

motion…

   ~`~ Rumi

 

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Our most intimate

contact with

Nature…

    ~`~  George Nakashima

 

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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

 

 

 

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Let’s Pause…

 

 

Too often in life we pass by
Important things.

 
Let’s pause, change perspective &

 
See things more clearly.

 
          ~`~ Sergio de silva

 

 

 

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( 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

 

 

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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

 

 

 

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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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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.

 

 

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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.

 

 

 

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Breathing in again, stretch your arms and be aware that you also penetrate other 

elements.

 

 

 

 

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Man helps make the other elements possible.

 

( Words : Thich Nhat Hanh  )

 


Alert…

Zen is an effort

to become
alert &

aware.
                              ~ ` ~ Osho

 

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Sparkle…

I am pretty sure that

when we sparkle

individually, we

Heal + shine

collectively.

~ ` ~  Tanya Markul

 

Wishing you all a happy &peaceful

new year ❤ ❤

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Who Am I …?

I am That  I am..

I am that which I have created myself to be.

                             ~ ` ~ The Gita

 

 

 

 

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I am the answer you were not

expecting…

 

 

 

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I exist 

As I am.

That is enough.

             ~ ` ~ Walt Whitman

 

 

 

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Knowing yourself is the beginning of

all

wisdom.

       ~ ` ~ Aristotle

 

 

 

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Many have an Image of me.

Few get the

picture…

 

 

 

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I regret opening up to 

some people.

They didn’t deserve to 

know me like that.

    ~ ` ~ Gold-Kushkloudz

 

 

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Wondering on 

myself,

by myself,

for myself…

 

 

 

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I am a thinker

Not a talker…

 

 

 

 

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I have travelled 

through madness

to 

find me…

 

 

 

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Don’t ask 

anyone 

but me,

about me…

 

 

 

 

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I am shy at first but…

I do the stupidest random

things when I 

get comfortable

with someone…

 

 

 

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hate being

Shy…

 

 

 

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Never have I dealt with 

anything more

difficult than my

own soul…

 

 

 

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You don’t know me…

I put back my pieces,

differently.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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( words: Internet )


They Heal…

 

 

The ways of these

gentle giants &

 

how they
heal us are
mysterious…

 

 

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Heart seeks…

 

 

From the clamor of crowds I flee,
my heart seeks

 
The kind of silence that would

 
mesmerize speech itself.

 

 

                              ~ ` ~ An Urdu poem 

 

 

 

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A Soul’s journey…

 

Art is the journey of

a

free soul.

                   ~ ` ~ Alev Oguz

 

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take your journey

change your body

find your

soul

 

 

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U don’t have a soul

you are a soul

You have a body

          ~ ` ~  C.S Lewis

 

 

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Quiet the mind

&

the soul will 

speak

       ~ ` ~ Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

 

 

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In a world where

everyone wears a 

mask,

It’s a privilege to see

a soul.

                       ~ ` ~ Anon 

 

 

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You have a 

 

soul…

(more…)


Born Fisherman…

 

 

You were born to be a fisherman as the 

fish was born to be a 

fish…

 

 

 

 

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You loved him when 

he was

alive…

 

 

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and you loved him

after…

 

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Fishing kills me exactly 

as it keeps me

alive…

 

 

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( words: Ernest Hemingway ~ ` ~ The old man & the sea )


Seeking you…

 

What you 

 

see

 

is seeking

 

YOU.

~ ` ~   Rumi

 

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Pieces of me…

 

 

I like the way

that feels…

 

 

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It’s as if you know

me better…

 

 

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Than I ever know 

myself…

 

 

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I love how you can 

tell…

 

 

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All the pieces, pieces, pieces

of me…

 

 

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( words; Ashlee Simpson )


True path…

 

 

Truth is one

&

the true path is one.

 

 

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It does not belong to

anybody.

Its nobody’s

property.

 

 

 

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it is only one!

there are not many paths really.

Many people walk on the 

path,

but the path is one.

 

 

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And it is so vast

they may not meet

each

other

 

 

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( 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)

 

 

 

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Poetry…

                    There are poems

                          inside you

                                that paper can’t

                                                              handle      

  

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              Painting is silent 

                          poetry

                                      &

                        poetry is painting

                          that speaks

                                            ~ ` ~  Nikos KAzantzakis

 

 

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             You have your brush

                  you have your colors, you

                   paint paradise,

             then in you go.

                                                             ~ ` ~  Adrienne Rich 

 

 

 

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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 )