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Kabir Kouba (Photo credit: po.fortin)
“I have been thinking of the difference between water
and the waves on it. Rising,
water’s still water, falling back,
it is water, will you give me a hint
how to tell them apart?Because someone has made up the word
“wave,” do I have to distinguish it from water?There is a Secret One inside us;
the planets in all the galaxies
pass through his hands like beads.That is a string of beads one should look at with luminous eyes.”
~ Kabir
Incense smoke against a black sky (Photo credit: Vanessa Pike-Russell)
“So how do you do mindfulness? It is very simple and also very challenging. The practice of mindfulness requires only that whatever you do, you do with your whole being. You have to invest one hundred percent of yourself in doing even very simple things, like picking up a pen, opening a book, or lighting a stick of incense. As a novice monk, several times a day I had to light incense to offer on the altar of the meditation hall. I was taught to pick up the stick of incense with both hands, the left hand on top of the right hand, which picks up the stick of incense. A stick of incense is very light. Why do you have to use both hands? The idea is that you have to invest one hundred percent of yourself into this simple act of picking up an incense stick. When you strike the match and light the incense, or put the tip of the incense stick into the flame of a candle, you have to be with the act of lighting one hundred percent. This is the practice of mindfulness.” ~Thich Nath Hanh, The Art of Power
Amas d’étoiles des Pléiades (M45) (Photo credit: astroremucho)
A Moment Of Happiness
A moment of happiness,
you and I sitting on the verandah,
apparently two, but one in soul, you and I.
We feel the flowing water of life here,
you and I, with the garden’s beauty
and the birds singing.
The stars will be watching us,
and we will show them
what it is to be a thin crescent moon.
You and I unselfed, will be together,
indifferent to idle speculation, you and I.
The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar
as we laugh together, you and I.
In one form upon this earth,
and in another form in a timeless sweet land.
Heart and Soul Nebula — H-alpha (Photo credit: s58y)
Always we hope
someone else has the answer.
some other place will be better,
some other time it will all turn out.This is it.
no one else has the answer.
no other place will be better,
and it has already turned out.At the center of your being
you have the answer;
you know who you are
and you know what you want.There is no need
to run outside
for better seeing.
Nor to peer from a window.Rather abide at the center of your being;
for the more you leave it, the less you learn.
Search your heart
and see
the way to do
is to be.
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