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Journaling.
It’s 5 am in the city I call home. The usual wake up time and I’m remembering my dreams as I do every night; a more fluid world….slightly terrified simply because my vivid dream world is so different to the real world I wake up to. It takes me 45 minutes to aclimatise to the new energies coming into my psyche and today it was overwhelming.
Writing is something I do as soon as I get up, they say the subconscious mind is still active. Perfect for the creative type. I have my coffee and peace of mind as the words I create slowly fill the screen. Writing gives me peace of mind. It also gives me peace of mind to be in love and fully transitioned into the woman I am today. I feel lucky.
I have an extroverted mind yet there’s a side of me attached to my lonesome creative or playful alone time; the introverted side important for my growth as a person. I hate writing about myself in a sense because usually when I come back to it I’m either disappointed in myself or something doesn’t quite feel right. On the other hand if I write in completely positive pretext about my life and situations it seems to make me happy to look back to myself standing strong in the face of danger.
Today is amazing.
Nina
Courage
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Source: Courage
The interconnected manifest – Nina
The abstract thoughts relevant to concrete form;
everything is connected making the magic very real
Submerged in self awareness yet profoundly connected
in imaginative design and inclinations creating and manifesting its form
Dreams and reality are not so far apart; both created by the mind and collected in the mind
to be analyzed and articulated
What today may bring is up to me as well as the destiny
We’ll have to work together or bound in self destruction
I can make today whatever I want it to be
Setting Destiny Stones for me to walk upon with grace
Or they could tower over me; an abrupt fate
Creating overwhelming fear in my heart
But if I choose to take destiny
Fate and future into my hands
I know I can surely manifest
Stepping stones upward on this journey into tomorrow
Into the sky with my dreams once again.
Nina Yin
Beginning your Meditation by Nina Yin
It’s often hard to slow ones thoughts, it’s a fast paced world we live in but I encourage everyone to stop…. and breathe…..
For one looking into it for the first time I would recommend using a guided meditation; a simple process used to relax ones mind and body. Concentrating on your breath can help take away overwhelming thoughts and feelings during meditation ; in…… and out…. Also slowing the heart rate.
My personal opinion is that meditation can be done anywhere and in infinite ways. Once indulged in meditation you may find certain key points that make it worthwhile. For myself ground yoga or standing yoga, Zen music and sounds of rain help allow me to completely relax my body and spirit. On the opposite spectrum I’ve also found it humbling and calm to walk the inner city with my headphones on; spiritual music playing and losing myself in the streets. There is no wrong ways to go about it.
Calm cool and collected. We sit in half lotus. Becoming more and more enlightened, within ourselves.
Nina Yin
Peaceful warrior. By Nina Yin
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
Yin/Yang
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Source: Yin/Yang
Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf: Zen Poems of Ryokan
“When, when?” I sighed.
The one I longed for
Has finally come;
With her now,
I have all that I need.
Open eyes.
“Life is like a tunnel but, you don’t have to close your eyes and hold your breath,”. -Nina
Nature and Buddhist Teachings – ~ Venerable Master Hsuan Hua; Liberating Life
“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
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