30 November, 2015

Einstein wisdom...


"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions". 

Albert Einstein,

29 November, 2015

On vibration...


"Every being is always receiving 
that which is a vibrational match 
to whatever they are offering."

Esther Hicks (Abraham)

28 November, 2015

Prejudice...


“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds along rocks.”

Charlotte Bronte

19 November, 2015

Native American Prayer


Oh, Great Spirit
Whose voice I hear in the winds,
And whose breath gives life to all the world
hear me, I am small and weak,
I need your strength and wisdom.

Let me walk in beauty and make my eyes ever behold
the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things you have
made and my ears sharp to hear your voice.

Make me wise so that I may understand the things
you have taught my people.
Let me learn the lessons you have
hidden in every leaf and rock.

I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother,
but to fight my greatest enemy - myself.
Make me always ready to come to you
with clean hands and straight eyes.

So when life fades, as the fading sunset,
my Spirit may come to you without shame.

(translated by Lakota Sioux Chief Yellow Lark in 1887)

15 November, 2015

On the true enemy...

 

“If you want to get rid of your enemy,
 the true way is to realize that your enemy
is delusion.”

Kegon Sutra

11 November, 2015

The love ballad


There was a young boy who yearned to be straight
He feared for his soul and sought a muse: a mate!
She appeared one day with flowers in her hair…
And with voice sweet beckoned him to her lair

Oh foolish child, of tales of maidens had you not heard
Casting spells on legions of men… thick as a horde!

She tickled his vanity, pride, desire, need to be free
And dazzled and magnetized, blinded was he!
She brewed potions of love and lust day and night
Aided by ghouls, she reached the peak of her might.
Oh foolish child, of tales of maidens had you not heard
Casting spells on legions of men… thick as a horde

But one day, inexorably time and merit ran out
And neighbours recounted of a scream and a shout
She sang her last love song with an awful pitch
And saddened discovered that she was a witch!

The spell thus was broken and the boy awoke
A dream so real that ended on a good note!

Somwang (Book of poems)


10 November, 2015

The brilliance of Awareness...


"How boundless and free is the sky of Awareness! How bright the full moon of wisdom! Truly, is anything missing now? Nirvana is right here, before our eyes; this very place is the Lotus Land; this very body, the Buddha."

Hakuin Zenji 
Song of Zazen

08 November, 2015

South African bed time story...

05 November, 2015

Peace...stillness!


“Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is 
— no matter what form it takes — you are still, 
you are at peace.”

Eckhart Tolle