“I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my judge. Whatever I do, wholesome or unwholesome, to that will I fall heir…
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Tag Archives: Peace
Zen and Breathing. via BalanceInMe.com
Changing Yourself Through Your Breath
| Deep breathing has been used to prepare for meditation since the beginning of human civilization. In the Hindu tradition, this practice was called pranayama and was used by yogis to improve their health and prepare for meditation.
My teacher used to say that “Your breath is your power”. And when you see someone full of energy and vitality, you’re seeing someone who understands the power of deep breathing. My friend Diana shows you a style of meditation that uses a powerful deep breathing technique on this page (click here to check it out). When you use a proper breathing technique, it will trigger natural and automatic movements which will relieve the tension that you have accumulated in your body. This will allow you to be far more mindful and will train your body to be effortlessly mindful in day to day life. That’s why my teacher was right to place so much importance on deep breathing. And it’s also why you should check out this style of meditation. Keep meditating!
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Return to the center and have a beautiful day people. :)
Always return to the center.
What we do today.
“Today is your day
To do with as you will
You can take it wherever you want it to go”
Nina
The calming rain. – Nina
Sweet rainfall… I awaited for you to cleanse my spirit
Thank you for joining me again, I’m so happy your back
I’m in love with your sound,
to me it’s music of peace, the music of life and the calmness that I crave
Sometimes I place my head to the sky to feel your heavenly touch, it’s orgasmic in its essence
For millions of years you have left and returned, travelling the earth and skies
You make me smile when I’m down, it’s just that since a child we’ve grown closer and closer in this mountainous rainforest I call home
You trickle and drop and exploring unknowns giving life to our plants, animals… all life; for that I thank you
Consider my life to be that of a rain dance; you fit perfectly with traditional flute or hand drum
I will dance with you; the physical rain
And the rains of life.
Reigns of life, rains of life.
pouring down.
Nina Yin reads her Buddhist love poetry. Slam poetry.
They say that a lotus flower can only bloom in the mud and peace can only be found in poverty
That a fool that knows they are a fool is truly wise… They say that life is suffering
They say that what goes around comes around, the karma; my dharma
They say that to take a journey as to meditate can be a key to enlightenment and that my worldly desires can only be a burden I carry along with me
They also say love is a burden but, after I am in love and that is something I will forever carry
I belong to an infinite universebong among the endless stars. So I bow my head to the way
I send out my positive energy to my mother earth of which is my home; and like the stars; my energy is infinite
My dreams are constantly speaking with me, possibly even more so when my mind is clear; because they say…
That whoms mind is clear
Unto them
The Universe Surrenders
-Nina
Zen Stories: Treasure House
Open Your Own Treasure House
Daiju visited the master Baso in China. Baso asked: “What do you seek?”
“Enlightenment,” replied Daiju.
“You have your own treasure house. Why do you search outside?” Baso asked.
Daiju inquired: “Where is my treasure house?”
Baso answered: “What you are asking is your treasure house.”
Daiju was enlightened! Ever after he urged his friends: “Open your own treasure house and use those treasures.”
XiaoYing. Nina Yin – Peace. —-Short Rap–!—- :)
-Nina
Everybody want to be a “G” in the streets / Sometimes I just want to see, / Some “peace” in the streets.
Lay back with my peeps Talk peace talk, not street talk / no fear in the heart of the city where we walk.
Open Vancity skies.. To sunshine… / Ban the violence, so no need for onetime.
All we wanna do is have fun, / time for my crew to run wild. Have a truce with gangs / so the troops can hang.
Truth is a thing of pride.
Toss the colors aside and swing wide.
One Love.
Check it out.
One Love.
To the streets.
-Nina
Story of Buddha by Nina Yin
“The importance of oneself.
Should not be important at all.
In essence we are natural.
But natural is not our essence
Until we are enlightened”
-Nina
Buddha’s mother couldn’t get pregnant, one night she had a dream, visited by an elephant carrying a lotus, the elephant touched the side of her stomach.
The Queen was pregnant.
After Buddha’s birth he was taken to a guru.
Born into a royal family
Saddat (Buddha) was to be a ruling king that the world had never seen….or a holy man (The Buddha) said the Guru.
His father tried desperately to hide the truth for many years, wishing he would never see suffering, and forever was to be indulging him in Luxury.
Saddat lived luxurious for many years but needed to find enlightenment, to understand his questions of life not found in self indulgence.
Saddat ran from the castle, his family and wealth.
He shaved his head and lived in homelessness.
-In Buddhism: Peace is found in poverty and without worldly things.-
After countless years of different practices and teachings.
Starving oneself for many years, practicing ancient rituals and studying….
Saddat took up starving oneself, thinking the key to enlightenment was to be without anything human to need nothing…
….he became but a skeleton…
His eyes deep in his skull like a light at a bottom of a dark well.
This was not the way.
Saddat was the most malnourished, deep in this practice.
But one day.
He got up from meditation.
He was given rice porridge by a woman walking by.
The others were shocked and exclaimed “Saddat loves luxury!”
Ashamed of him, but.
Buddha realized
There is good, in our lives, good that we need and is important.
Under a the boddhi tree sat meditating.
The Sun moved through the sky but the shadow of his tree did not move, the tree kept him comfortable,
He touched the ground connected with the universe and unto Buddha he became.
People from all over sought his teachings.
He taught for many more years to his disciples.
Noble truths,
compassion
and the way
enlightenment.
“It’s time for me to go”. He exclaimed.
“I will be in Nirvana”.
*Enlightened*, placing his hand to the earth.
leaving his teachings behind.
Forever.
-Nina Yin
Without Fear : Zen Master
Without Fear
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During the civil wars in feudal Japan, an invading army would quickly sweep into a town and take control. In one particular village, everyone fled just before the army arrived – everyone except the Zen master. Curious about this old fellow, the general went to the temple to see for himself what kind of man this master was. When he wasn’t treated with the deference and submissiveness to which he was accustomed, the general burst into anger. “You fool,” he shouted as he reached for his sword, “don’t you realize you are standing before a man who could run you through without blinking an eye!” But despite the threat, the master seemed unmoved. “And do you realize,” the master replied calmly, “that you are standing before a man who can be run through without blinking an eye?” |
“”Happy are those who do not fear death. They know no fear and therefore cannot be controlled.”
– Nina
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