Chandni Samani

Bicycle

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life is a series of events, and we have to keep moving on with life if we want to experience and benefit from all of those events. If you focus on one tiny event that happens, then you can miss out on hundreds more. One of the best little mantras you can use in my…[Read more]

Under the evening moon
the snail is
stripped to the waist.

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]

Mimosa

Mimosa is shy, bashful or shrinking; also called sensitive plant.

Being intense and sensitive—seeing the world through different eyes and feeling the world on a distinctive wavelength—does not lay an easy path.
You are most likely a deep thinker, an intuitive feeler, and an extraordinary observer. You are prone to existential dep…[Read more]

Mosquito at my ear —
does he think
I’m deaf?

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]

Ocean

The ocean is the beginning of life on Earth, and symbolizes formlessness, the unfathomable, and chaos. The ocean can also be seen as a symbol of stability, as it can exist largely unchanged for centuries. The ocean is considered to be boundless, a place where one can easily be lost, and can therefore be seen to represent the boundless span…[Read more]

All the time
I pray to Buddha
I keep on
killing mosquitoes.

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]

Tiger

As a spirit animal, the meaning for the Tiger is said to be willpower, courage, and personal strength.

Whether you are waiting to return a serve on the tennis court or listening for your name to be called for a job interview, your instinct is to stay loose. Be ready, be flexible, be poised to respond when the time is right. Staying loose…[Read more]

The snow is melting
and the village
is flooded
with children.

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]

Heart

Immediately reminds us Love. We all are stuck as far as Love is concern. As our love is nothing but fulfilling our desires from others.

If we look to our relationships to complete us and fulfill our unmet needs for happiness and love, then those relationships often result in disappointment. And, if we believe that those we are in a…[Read more]

New Year’s Day —
everything is in blossom!
I feel about average.

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]

Frame

The frame can act as a boundary between the painting and the background surface, it helps focus the attention of the viewer on the paintings.

Our silent mind is frame to express our love, affection. It is background of our love.

Our minds are turbulent, like the rough waves close to the shore. The more we fight against the mind, the…[Read more]

Don’t worry, spiders,
I keep house casually.

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]

Pump

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

The importance of our thoughts:
Watch your Thoughts, they become words.
Watch your Words, they become actions.
Watch your Actions, they become habits.
Watch your Habits,…[Read more]

Fever-felled half-way,
my dreams arose
To march again . . .
Into a hollow land

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]

Ball

The ball is a symbol of your courage, strength and confidence to face things in life.

What is Confidence?
The concept of confidence exists *only* within the egoic realm. Only the ego needs some kind of assurance in one’s own abilities or in the successful outcome of a future event. Sadly, what most people think of as “confidence” is really…[Read more]

See: surviving suns
visit the ancestral
grave . . . Bearded,
with bent canes.

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]

Telescope

Telescope is an optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer, containing an arrangement of lenses, or of curved mirrors and lenses, by which the rays of light are collected and focused and the resulting image magnified.

We treat ourselves exactly opposite. We create distance with ourselves. We are most nearer to…[Read more]

If there were fragrance
these heavy snow-
flakes settling . . .
Lilies on the rocks

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]

Mirror

Mirror only reflects without any judgements.

A different viewpoint undercuts our certainty that we have a right to judge others. Insight begins to dawn about the value of acceptance over judgmentalism. It’s not the same insight for everyone, yet something like the following begins to make sense:
When you judge others, you give them an…[Read more]

This snowy morning
that black crow
I hate so much . . .
But he’s beautiful!

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]