Chandni Samani

Cuckoo

Cuckoo it means that you need to pay close attention to your inner voice.

How to Recognize Your Inner Voice:
Inspiration speaker and author, Marie Forleo, says that if it’s not a HELL YES then it’s a NO, and this is what it’s like to be in touch with your innate wisdom. When first starting to listen to your inner voice, more than likel…[Read more]

No oil to read by . . .
I am off to bed
but ah! . . .
My moonlit pillow

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]

Speaker

Speakers typically come in pairs, which allows them to produce stereo sound. This means the left and right speakers transmit audio on two completely separate channels.
Why Speakers are in pairs? So that it can produce more natural sound. They are always placed in opposite direction to produce natural sound.

Life is the coexistence of all…[Read more]

Cold first winter rain . . .
poor monkey,
you too could use
A little woven cape

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]

Pin

To inflate the balloon lot of effort is needed. But to burst the balloon we need only one prick of Pin.

Same is with our life, to become conscious we need to be watchful continuously. One thought is enough to become unconscious.

Buddha used breath as a vehicle to do two things simultaneously: one, to create consciousness, and another, to…[Read more]

Carven gods long gone . . .
dead leaves alone
foregather
On the temple porch

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]

Screw

The only way to make a spoilt machine work again is to break it down, work on its inner system and fix it again. Screw out the bolts of your life, examine and work on yourself, fix your life again and get going.

There is two ways we need to examine our life – Internally and Externally.
Internal self-awareness: Internal self-awareness…[Read more]

First white snow of fall
just enough to bend
the leaves
Of faded daffodils.

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]

Water

Water is life, water is flow, water means depth, water holds endless inspiration.

In Taoist tradition, water is considered an aspect of wisdom. The concept here is that water takes on the form in which it is held and moves in the path of non resistance. Nonresistance doesn’t necessarily mean doing nothing. All it means is that any “…[Read more]

Dry cheerful cricket
chirping, keeps
the autumn gay . . .
Contemptuous of frost.

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]

Turtle

The turtle totem wisdom teaches us about walking our path in peace and sticking to it with determination and serenity.
Turtle is slow and steady.

Life is a race that takes lot of confidence and will power to succeed ahead of others. But is success something that we can get with laziness or carelessness? No. We should be very strong in…[Read more]

Will we meet again
here at your
flowering grave . . .
Two white butterflies?

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]

Arrow

You have to relax when you’re shooting an arrow. You can’t be tense. And that just helps, in your day-to-day life.

Relaxation Is Just Being Natural:
Total relaxation is the ultimate. That’s the moment when one becomes a buddha. That is the moment of realization, enlightenment, christ-consciousness. You cannot be totally relaxed right now.…[Read more]

Now in sad autumn
as I take my
darkening path . . .
A solitary bird

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]

Ship

Ship reminds us Cruise Ships, delightful ambiance that’s a hybrid of luxury and destination-immersive cruising. This give us the memory of vacation, relaxations.

A Modern Glimpse into Ancient Relaxation Practices:
Relaxation techniques such as yoga and meditation have been around for thousands of years. Countless generations have shown us…[Read more]

Here, where a thousand
captains swore grand
conquest . . .
Tall Grass their monument

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]

Mud

Can you think of two things as different as mud and a lotus flower? But the lotus flower comes from the mud and rises above the waters …the lotus flower is such a transformation, but without the mud there will be no lotus flowers.

Tantra is a life approach, which honours everything that the human being is, as divine. There is a saying in…[Read more]

Nine times arising
to see the moon . . .
whose solemn pace
Marks only midnight yet.

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]

Medal

Medal is not just the achievement of one thing but preparation of many thing.

Meditation is the Primary Preparation:
A baby is born out of the mother’s womb. The birth is an explosion. It is not that the child is born a little now and then he will be born a little more a while later. Birth is not a gradual happening. The birth takes p…[Read more]

The sea darkening . . .
oh voices of the
wild ducks
Crying, whirling, white

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]