Tag Archives: Zen
Living in and escaping reality. A breath and a vision away.
A tibetan meditation method has proven extremely effective for me (with practice). For months I would breathe in and out during times needed to let go. I was taught to picture an image in my head; it could be anything. As I breathe in, it comes closer to me and as I breathe out it draws further away. It has progressively become more and more effective on alleviating negative thoughts and as a matter of fact… thoughts at all. I learned from watching tibetan teacher at a conference teaching mediation.
As I said I have been practicing for months. Last night the image that I had been viewing for the last few months decides to change. It used to be a snow covered mountain that would draw itself in and out but for this time; for what reason I am not sure. What once was snow covered peaks daunting and treacherous yet beautiful mountains turned into an extremely simplicit image of a yellow flower. Now perhaps more simple, and meaningful to me the meditation was even more calming. I have been drawing flowers in my graffiti for quite some time. Drawing eyes inside my flowers; watching over the city. I love drawing them.
I am happy the flower has arrived and thought I would share the ideology of meditation, clarity and growth it brings.
And change.
Rant over
If Your Compassion Does Not Include Yourself, It Is Incomplete – Buddha — The Seeds 4 Life
In life, there will be times of failure, and times of regret. Times of frustration, and times of worry. Moments of insecurity and inadequacy plague even the most confident among us. We will all experience some level of self-doubt and self-criticism, and this is what makes the practice of self-compassion so vitally important. Today, rather…
via If Your Compassion Does Not Include Yourself, It Is Incomplete – Buddha — The Seeds 4 Life
3 Day Quote Challenge. Day 3 – Silent
NOMAD CLAN…FRANCE…
The Tibetan Book of Proportions — Buddhist Art News
The Public Domain Review offers a series of images from “an eighteenth-century pattern book consisting of 36 ink drawings showing precise iconometric guidelines for depicting the Buddha and Bodhisattva figures.” Original text at the Getty. [link]
Zen and Meditation. Ancient Poetry
The Third Zen Patriarch, Janzhi Sengcan, wrote in his poem Xinxin Ming:
“The more you talk and think about it, the further astray you wander from the truth. Stop talking and thinking, and there is nothing you will not be able to know. To return to the root is to find the meaning, but to pursue appearances is to miss their source. At the moment of inner enlightenment there is a going beyond appearances and emptiness.”
These words were written almost 1,500 years ago in China.
Tibetan Buddhist Monks Return to Asia Society to Sand Mandala and Present Music and Dance — Buddhist Art News
by SARAH HUA 25 May 2016 Houston, Texas, May 25, 2016—Asia Society Texas Center is pleased to welcome back to Houston the Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery. From August 18-21, the monks will construct a sand mandala and perform ceremonies in the Center’s Louisa Stude Sarofim Gallery. During this ritual, millions of grains […]
Mystic Life. Yin and Yang
My life has been filled with uplifting and terrifying wonders, I try to keep balance
It is this balance that creates the beauty as one cannot exist without the other.
-Nina
Nothing To Do — Great Middle Way
Renunciation has nothing to do with sacrificing. When we talk about renunciation, somehow we get all scared because we think that we have to give up some goodies, something valuable, some important things. But there is nothing that is important; there is nothing that is solidly existing. All that you give up is actually a […]
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