Child of Earth

I am a child of earth
My path is no highway
My rise needs no elevator

The sun is in my heart

High time

Now it´s time, high time
To step out of obsessive thinking
To come to my senses
And arrive at the ground at my feet.

Daily

An old Hasidic rabbi asked his pupils how they could tell when the night had ended and the day had begun, for that is the time for certain holy prayers.
“Is it,” proposed one student, “when you can see an animal in the distance and tell whether it is a sheep or a dog?” “No,” answered the rabbi.
“Is it when you can clearly see the lines of your own palm?” “Is it when you can look at a tree in the distance and tell if it is a fig or a pear tree?” “No,” answered the rabbi each time.
“Then what is it?” the pupils demanded.
“It is when you can look on the face of any man or woman and see that they are your sister or brother. Until then it is still night.”

In the end

Poem by Tara Sophia Mohr

In the end
you won’t be known
for the things you did,
or what you built,
or what you said.

You won’t even be known
for the love given
or the hearts saved,

because in the end you won’t be known.

You won’t be asked, by a vast creator full of light:
What did you do to be known?

You will be asked: Did you know it,
this place, this journey?

What there is to know can’t be written.
Something between the crispness of air
and the glint in her eye
and the texture of the orange peel.

What you’ll want a thousand years from now is this:
a memory that beats like a heart–
a travel memory, of what it was to walk here,
alive and warm and textured within.

Sweet brightness, aliveness, take-me-now-ness that is life.

You are here to pay attention. That is enough.

True nature

Huang Po:

Your true nature is something never lost to you,
even in moments of delusion,
nor is it gained at the moment of enlightenment.
It is the nature of your own mind,
the source of all things,
your original luminous brilliance.
You, the richest person in the world,
have been going around laboring and begging,
when all the while the treasure you seek is within you.
It is who you are.

Waking

Waking, by Hafiz


In the morning
When I began to wake,
It happened again -That feeling
That You, Beloved,
Had stood over me all night
...Keeping watch,
That feeling
That as soon as I began to stir
You put Your lips on my forehead
And lit a Holy Lamp
Inside my Heart.

Moment

tigers above

tigers below

strawberries in my mouth

present moment

wonderful

Metta

May all beings everywhere, with whom we are inseparably interconnected and who want and need the same as we do,
May all be liberated, healed, fulfilled and free

Honoring

"Your innate goodness needs tending. When we build and maintain a spiritual practice, we are acknowledging that we take our spiritual lives seriously. Every time we meditate, pray or engage in spiritual reading or practice, we are honoring our innate Buddha-nature--honoring the light within, honoring our best selves and our highest potential. We are attuning ourselves with the sacred."

Lama Surya Das

Listening

Non-judgmental listening is a healing present to both, the one who tells and the one who listens.

Do we

"What we know is a drop, what we don´t know is an ocean."  

Isaac Newton

Very moment

It is the world around us and the people here living in this very moment.

Inoma

Pama Mapa

Neulengbach

Lion´s roar

"Can you imagine opening without resistance to the aliveness, change and loss that is inherent in this existence? 

Can you imagine opening in this very moment to the pleasantness and pain, the changing flow of life? 

It is that openness that awakens the lion’s roar. 

It is that openness that allows us to live with a heart that is ready for anything."

Tara  Brach

from: http://blog.tarabrach.com/

Being

Breathing space
Smiling face
Just from time to time

Mindfulness

Jon Kabat-Zinn:

"The habit of ignoring our present moments in favor of others yet to come leads directly to a pervasive lack of awareness of the web of life in which we are embedded. This includes a lack of awareness and understanding of our own mind and how it influences our perceptions and our actions. It severely limits our perspective on what it means to be a person and how we are connected to each other and the world around us. Religion has traditionally been the domain of such fundamental inquiries within a spiritual framework, but mindfulness has little to do with religion, except in the most fundamental meaning of the word, as an attempt to appreciate the deep mystery of being alive and to acknowledge being vitally connected to all that exists."

from: Wherever You Go, There You Are

Flow river flow

sound for today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8jC1lRZGTU

Amazon watch

http://amazonwatch.org/work

Rosemary

"There's rosemary, that's for remembrance."

(Ophelia in Hamlet)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary

Respect

Take refuge in your senses, open up

To all the small miracles you rushed through.

Become inclined to watch the way of rain

When it falls slow and free.

Imitate the habit of twilight,

Taking time to open the well of color

That fostered the brightness of day.

Draw alongside the silence of stone

Until its calmness can claim you.

Be excessively gentle with yourself.

Stay clear of those vexed in spirit.

Learn to linger around someone of ease

Who feels they have all the time in the world.

Gradually, you will return to yourself,

Having learned a new respect for your heart

And the joy that dwells far within slow time.

John O´Donohue

(picture from wikimedia commons)

Learning

Deng Ming-Dao:

The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.

from: http://www.mettadrum.com/2012/02/we-can-agree.html#more 

Peace

S/he who does take feelings seriously and learns to communicate them non-violently, is on the path to wisdom, on the path to peace. Therefore I want to introduce a constructive way to deal with anger, frustration and discrimination…


http://nonviolentcommunication.com/store/images/pdf/2a_nvc_foreword.pdf

Earthed

lying - relaxed
sitting - centered
standing - rooted
moving - grounded


attending no-thing
developing qualities
preparing the way


being human - earthed


(inoma)


(also thinking of)
http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/search?q=prepare+the+way

Bamboo

Bamboo

Solid bamboo

Receiving and giving

From the heart of earth

Joyful burst of growth out there

 Prepared gradually within invisible realms

I keep quiet for a moment

Look deeply into myself

And get a clue

Feeling of being bend in the wind

When a work of roots - broad and deep - is holding you tight

(Inoma)

Keeping quiet

Pablo Neruda:

Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still.

This one time upon the earth, let's not speak any language, let's stop for one second, and not move our arms so much.

It would be a delicious moment, without hurry, without locomotives, all of us would be together in a sudden uneasiness.

The fishermen in the cold sea would do no harm to the whales and the peasant gathering salt would look at his torn hands.

Those who prepare green wars, wars of gas, wars of fire, victories without survivors, would put on clean clothing and would walk alongside their brothers

in the shade, without doing a thing.

What I want shouldn't be confused with final inactivity: life alone is what matters, I want nothing to do with death.

If we weren't unanimous about keeping our lives so much in motion, if we could do nothing for once, perhaps a great silence would interrupt this sadness, this never understanding ourselves and threatening ourselves with death,

perhaps the earth is teaching us when everything seems to be dead

and then everything is alive.

Now I will count to twelve and you keep quiet and I'll go.

(Translated by Stephen Mitchell)