Zen master is saying that I was so silent that no one noticed me.

We were born with silence, and as we grew up we lost the silence and we were filled with words. We lived in our hearts, and as time passed we moved into our heads. Now the reverse of this journey is enlightenment. It is the journey…[Read more]

Live the life like Zorba The Buddha.
Zorba is the foundation and Buddha is the palace. Buddha is the peak, but the foundation stones are laid by Zorba. It will be foolish to choose to be a Buddha without having the foundation stones.

Be absolutely mathematical about it: Zorba should be there a…[Read more]

Have you ever tried to train a puppy? Our minds are like puppies, constantly reacting to things within and around us. “It’s essential to recognize that who you truly are is not that person who is constantly in reaction. You are the stillness between your thoughts.”

Everything that’s created com…[Read more]

Evening Symbolically, this cycle offers the most dramatic contrast between light and darkness, between consciousness and unconsciousness.
Waist is in the middle.

Shakyamuni’s life exemplifies a basic interpretation of the Middle Way as the path between two extremes, close to A…[Read more]

This is how our ego respond.

For most people, ego becomes an issue only when someone has too much of it and is considered egotistical – and even then, a big ego is often equated with drive and success.
The situation is very different seen from the perspective of consciousness. The reason that Bud…[Read more]

When he is awakening from unreal to real he is dropping his mind.

Vedanta is the awakening from unreal to real, from ignorance to bliss. It teaches that anything we can experience with our senses only exists in our mind, which also doesn’t exist. And yet, in realizing that n…[Read more]

Solid snow is melting and becoming water. Form is transform. Snow is taking new form which is very fresh. Freshness is always innocent like a child.

Love dances in the freshness of the unknown.

The unknown is the field of all possibilities in every moment of the present. And this is…[Read more]

Ego needs always something special. When ego is drop you feel ordinary, average and non-resistance.

Nonresistance doesn’t necessarily mean doing nothing. All it means is that any “doing” becomes non-reactive. Remember the deep wisdom underlying the practice of Eastern martial a…[Read more]

We all are interconnected like a spider web, if you are happy, happiness spreads out in universe.

What is happiness and how can you spread it?
Happiness is when your life fulfils your needs. Quite simply, this means that you feel satisfied and fulfilled with everything in your life. Happiness is a f…[Read more]

If we don’t live the life in totality we die in desire. When we die in desire we come back to this world again.

Even desire to become free or enlightened is just another craving for fulfillment or completion in the future. So don’t seek to become free or desire or “ac…[Read more]

Body become old and it is waiting for the death. Visiting the ancestral grave is to experience the silence of the grave. He is realizing his fear.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not…[Read more]

When you release your inner fragrance your consciousness grows been on the rocks of the mind, thoughts.

Maturity has a fragrance. It gives a tremendous beauty to the individual. It gives intelligence, the sharpest possible intelligence. It makes him nothing but…[Read more]

We live in a world full of pairs of opposites: birth and death, joy and sorrow, victory and defeat, likes and dislikes, insult and praise, good and evil, and so on. In each pair, one cannot exist without the other. That is why if a child laughs too much, it is told to…[Read more]

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry—all forms of fear—are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of non-forgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence. In that mom…[Read more]

Mind is like a monkey. As after the first rain of winter water freezes, in the deep meditation mind freezes.

WHAT IS MEDITATION?
Meditation is a technique for personal growth that has been practiced for thousands of years around the world with repeatable…[Read more]

This Haiku says that our soul has left us long back. We are dead in living body. As we live into mind. This is temple porch. Just go inside of yourself, and you will meet your soul.

Once you come out of the mind, by and by you will become aware of millions of things in…[Read more]

In this haiku Zen master says we are too late to understand ourselves. Season when leaves had faded was long back but we were unconscious about that, now wake up.

It Is Time To Wake Up:
You have wasted too much valuable time, energy, opportunity already. But still there…[Read more]

As chilly winter nights cool the body, cricket may be looking for a way to warm up that doesn’t include turning up the heat. He is enjoying his inner warmth – love.

Remember, in our inmost being, we are all completely lovable because spirit is love. Beyond what a…[Read more]

When person is going through death experience at that time simultaneously he experience life into death.

Death Is the Most Misunderstood Phenomenon
Death is the most misunderstood phenomenon. People have thought of death as the end of life. That is the first, basic…[Read more]

Whenever we meet ourselves we find no object over there, just emptiness. As we are not familiar with our emptiness we feel like autumn, everything has fall apart. We compare that emptiness with darkness. But in reality it is full of life, silence.

Truth is a transcendence. Truth…[Read more]

One the unique things about the grass symbol is that you never find just one blade of grass by itself. You can find flowers, trees, animals, and people who spend their time alone, but grass is also surrounded by more grass. This makes grass a great symbol for…[Read more]

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Living well only means Enlightenment.

Enlightenment is a simple realization that everything is as it should be.
That is the definition of enlightenment: everything is as it…[Read more]

In this haiku sea is representing our unconsciousness. Wild Duck represents our soul. When our unconscious body whirls, through the whirling we become conscious of our soul.

To come out from our unconsciousness whirling is beautiful meditation:
Whirling is an ancient…[Read more]

Our possessiveness has taken away freedom to love. Like with creepers quieted the swinging bridge.

Love can be impure, then it creates bondage. When it is pure it brings freedom. The whole process of awareness is of purifying your love-energy. It is mixed with many…[Read more]

It says that it was mating season. Lady butterfly sending message of readiness through it’s perfume. She is floating over orchid – says that she is playful, romantic.

Unless we are ready from our side and send message to the existence, in that readiness receptivity existence merge w…[Read more]

Twilight represents opposite. Life exists in contradictions.

Life is not made of contradictions. It is made of complementaries. Only in the mind, do things appear to be opposite. Only in the mind, you cannot conceive how they both can be one. That’s why Euclidean geometry s…[Read more]

From the Camellia-petal Dew Drop just spills in the silence of the first appearance of light in the sky.

When our mind becomes silent, in the inner sky first ray of consciousness appears. In that moment for the first time like Camellia flowers, which is symbol of love, we experience…[Read more]

With maturity out of awareness person become silent. When someone become silent he become aware of his surrounding also. He can smell of scent of flowers which is floating in air. He is in middle like evening. Day has gone and still night not started.

If you can…[Read more]

Chrysanthemum is used for meditation. When you become silent your any act can become meditation.

Zen is simply a technique of entering into your veryness. The entrance is so deep that nothing remains, and all is found.

Silence is when you connect with your core consciousness and your deepest…[Read more]

When sky is light means state of no-thoughts. This is moment is possibility to become alert towards self. If you become alert towards yourself, transformation happens.
The butterfly symbolizes transformation and joy. Its dance reflects the need for movement from where we…[Read more]

When mind is mixed up with reality it creates unreal world.

Hindus call this world maya, illusory, dreamlike, mind-stuff. What do they mean? Do they mean that it is unreal? No, it is not unreal, but when your mind gets mixed into it, you create an unreal…[Read more]

When one dissolve in existence, he surrender himself and in gratitude he ask forgiveness from his own mind, saying goodbye to him. Even though the mind is biggest barrier between us and existence, still in gratitude he is thankful to his own mind.

Gratitude creates a…[Read more]

What is silence?
Stop fulfilling expectations of others, because that is the only way you can commit suicide. You are not here to fulfill anybody’s expectations and nobody else is here to fulfill your expectations. Never become a victim of others expectations and don’t…[Read more]

When we feel separation from the existence, the pain of separation save us from all the afflictions.

The sadness of separating from you (Existence), Has saved me from all other afflictions. None dares to approach me now.
In time, only one memory will remain -…[Read more]

When you are silent, you are in middle, like twilight. Person who is in total silent can hear universal sound.
Sit in the silence of the night and listen to it. This sound of stillness is very close to the ego. When Omkar begins to sound within you, at first you will…[Read more]

Like flower when our being blooms, we becomes watcher, ego dies and we live in this world without losing individuality.

Individuality means your uniqueness — not compared with anybody else. Your incomparable uniqueness: that is individuality. Individuality is beautiful; t…[Read more]

Variety of food is like mind and petals represents consciousness.

Remember well that you don’t have one mind; you have multi-minds.
Mind is a flux: river like, flowing, changing. Consciousness is eternal, one. It is not different in the morning and different in the…[Read more]

When our focus shift from thoughts to self, we are grateful to everything around us. Our mind becomes silent and at rest.

Life is a story we weave together from the thoughts, feelings, and emotions we experience each moment. Yet we live the majority of our life in…[Read more]

The moment person realizes his emptiness, means he has emptied his unconsciousness, become fresh and young like dewdrop.

You are the master of your destiny. You can change every act, you can change every habit. You can change what you think has become your second…[Read more]

All of us have the innate need to love and be loved. When we are born, we enter the world with a pure expectation of unconditional love.

If we look to our relationships to complete us and fulfill our unmet needs for happiness and love, then those relationships often…[Read more]

Seas are wild – represents our mind. Silent cloud of stars – represents our being.

Noise is our mind, silence is our being.
Learn silence. And at least with your friends, with your lovers, with your family, sit in silence sometimes. Don´t go on gossiping, don´t go o…[Read more]

For him Morning-glory is primary. As Zen says while meditating you can smoke, while smoking you cannot meditate. Your each act will be prayer.

When your prayer comes from your very heart. Your prayer is not to ask for something, your prayer is just a thankfulness because you…[Read more]