Take a chance and live your dreams.
Every moment counts.
Against all odds fight for the reason to live.
Run through the darkness till the sunrise.
If the world can’t handle you just hold your head high.
You are the judge and jury of your own life.
An artist striving for something; in this fleeting moment of escape.
A vacation from the norm and to revitalize the spirit, seeing yourself and everything around you in a new light.
So go, run through the darkness to see a new light.
Just go.
Nina Yin
These demons haunt me, they set up appointments with my soul once a month. Can we do brunch? Hungry lust to see you suffer that much.
A sacred story of a Zen monk in ancient Japan; training under a samurai retainer Ninyin knew as the way; to make a decision in the space of seven breaths but couldn’t understand why he couldn’t get over a side to him; a side making him distracted from his training. To dash in head on was the way of the samurai; to dedicate ones body and mind to the way. Ancient Japan was an interesting place.
The Abbot sensed the distractions inside Ninyin One day the teacher instructed him to meditate in front of a mirror until he understood the purpose of this confliction within himself. Unsure of how his master sensed this he sat down in front of the mirror. On the first day he grew weary and applied powdered rouge when he was pale as not to look weak. On the second day his eyes began to open more widely and sensed a change in mindset and on on the third day; although his head was shaved as all the male monks were he saw a beautiful woman staring back at him and stared in awe at her.
“This is the side that has distracted me? “. Tears rolled down her cheeks and the purpose of the confliction became evident. Ninyin had studied Zen and meditated her whole life. To see who she really is.
She took the realization to the master; afraid of condemnation from the temple but enlightened within herself. The master said to her, “Live life as if Buddha’s eyes were always watching you, if you can live in peace than this is surely The Way”.
She became known as the peaceful warrior, and after staying at the temple for 10 years she grew her hair long and began travelling the cities unlike most monks; on a constant journey to enlightenment.
Nina Yin
“They say life is like a sort of journey; one that starts and ends in the sea of endless stars,”.
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“When, when?” I sighed.
The one I longed for
Has finally come;
With her now,
I have all that I need.
“Life is like a tunnel but, you don’t have to close your eyes and hold your breath,”. -Nina
“Buddhism regards all living creatures as being endowed with the Buddha nature and the potential to become Buddhas. That’s why Buddhism teaches us to refrain from killing and to liberate creatures instead.”
~ Venerable Master Hsuan Hua
Liberating Life
Dream train to sublime bliss in nirvana
with euphoric melodies echoing at the station
While fesh rain hitting the hot concrete smell fills the air;
a Journey to the new world; I can imagine
Standing on my tippy toes atop mount Everest,
laughing with the Gods.
Nina Yin
“Write, write something”. She said. Staring at the screen with a blank stare. But wait a second, this is emptiness in form, it’s non-conceptual. Of value or of nothingness but, it is writing…. so…. “your going somewhere right?”.
Write, write something”. She said again to herself getting frustrated. She takes a deep breath and thinks of her lover lying in bed. Someone whos special to her and she’d be lying to herself if she said she didn’t love her.
“Write, write something”. She starts to smile while the hip hop blares in the background. Thinking of the markers in her bag and how she’s about to ride the train.
I want to write.
“Write, write something”.
To L.C.
NINA Yin.
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