I am always updating the little shrine in my living room. I had some sand from my visit to red rock nevada in a jar for over 12 years and finally had a very good use for it. I unscrewed an old wooden art box that held paints, pencil crayons, markers and pastels and filled it up with the sand. Placing buddha inside of a lotus in the centre 🙂 ….
As I continue on my mission for a Fung Shui home I hope this fire element zen garden can bring me some positivity.
Nina
Laid in an ocean and exhaled the sky…
Sweet meditation; Like Lucid Dreams
Thank you for these.
Drops of rain.
Fall upon me
As I inhale the ocean and exhale the breeze
Such ease…
How the water caresses my body and light tantalize my eyes
Laid in an ocean…and exhaled the sky.
….
After my mediation
I make a humbling plea
I am now
Placed on my knees
And bowing in threes
Taken away
And I return to the ground
I seeked absolute nothing
*Absolute was found.*
-Nina
A Taoist story tells of an old man who accidentally fell into the river rapids leading to a high and dangerous waterfall. Onlookers feared for his life. Miraculously, he came out alive and unharmed…
Source: With the Flow: A Zen Story
Here’s something that might help you improve your meditation practice. When you’ve closed your eyes, repeat to yourself “just___”.
For example, if you’re sitting in your meditation cushion, repeat to yourself “just seat”, or “just breathe”.
This can help you be calm and find inner peace and balance.
Do not ignore the effect of small kindnesses, saying, “This will come to nothing.” Just as drop by drop the water jar is filled, so in time the wise become replete with wholesomeness. —…
Source: Drop By Drop
These two mental states are conducive to correct knowledge. Which two?
Peace and clarity.By developing peace, what purpose is served? Mind is purified.
By purifying mind, what purpose is served? Craving is abandoned.
By developing clarity, what purpose is served? Wisdom is developed.
By developing wisdom, what purpose is served? Ignorance is abandoned.
Defiled by craving, the mind is not released [from emotional agitation], and defiled by ignorance, wisdom is not developed.
Thus, abandoning craving through peace, there is liberation of the mental fluctuations, and abandoning ignorance through clarity, there is liberation by wisdom.—Buddha
Shakyamuni, Vijjābhāgiya Sutta
Source: Peace and Clarity
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