Chandni Samani

Sunflower

What Sunflower says – Turn your face to the sun and the shadows follow behind you.

If you focus on awareness then mind will follow you. Mind is nothing but servant.

When all identity with the mind is dropped, when you are a watcher on the hills and the mind is left deep down in the darkness of the valleys, when you are on the sunlit…[Read more]

Now the swinging bridge
is quieted
with creepers . . .
Like our tendrilled life

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]

Monkey

Human mind is nothing but a monkey. Man has not changed much. Charles Darwin says that man has evolved only on the surface – deep down man is as restless as other monkeys. Man has not evolved much. The real man is born only when your inner monkey completely disappears, utterly disappears.

To be a man means to be a no-mind. The constant c…[Read more]

Lady butterfly
perfumes her wings
by floating
Over the orchid

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]

Silk

A fine, strong, soft lustrous fibre produced by silkworms in making cocoons and collected to make thread and fabric.

Silk is strong and soft both. If you are strong then only you can be vulnerable, soft.

That’s how it is: when you are really vulnerable you feel stronger, not weaker. If you are stronger, you will feel vulnerable. Only a w…[Read more]

In the twilight rain
these brilliant-hued
hibiscus . . .
A lovely sunset

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]

Sheep

Sheep follows. It represents crowd.

Why we feel Unworthy? Because of the collective consciousness called crowd.

Nobody is born unworthy. Everybody is equal in the eyes of existence. But remember, equality does not mean similarity. Everybody is equally unique.
The idea of unworthiness that is torturing you is torturing millions of human…[Read more]

Camellia-petal
fell in silent dawn . . .
spilling
A water-jewel

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]

Glass

It is transparent.

You simply are – clear, neither confused nor certain, just a clarity, a transparency. And that transparency has beauty, that transparency is grace, it is exquisite.

It is the most beautiful moment in one’s life when there is neither confusion nor certainty. One simply is, a mirror reflecting that which is, with no dir…[Read more]

Silent the old town . . .
the scent of flowers
floating . . .
And evening bell

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]

Door

Through the Door we can enter and exit. It is upto us how we use it.

Present moment is door either you can enter into yourself or you can exit from yourself. If you become self-alert and enter into yourself – you got the key to enter into unknown.

To accept the challenge of the unknown is courage:
In the beginning there is no big…[Read more]

Chrysanthemum
Silence – monk
Sips his morning tea.

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]

Rock

We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know – we have forgotten how to be – to be still – to be ourselves – to be where life is here and now.

When you lose yourself in doing, you lose mindfulness and always want to arrive at the next moment. You’re never fully in the doing. Your attention is always on the next thing, or where y…[Read more]

Wake! The sky is light!
let us to the road
again . . .
Companion butterfly!

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]

Peepal

It is said that Peepal tree never sheds all of its leaves at one time. Once the leaves start to fall from the tree, the new leaves keep coming by taking a new birth. And this simple thing signifies the cycle of death and life.
Also it is said that Peepal tree is immortal as it never dies which also signifies the permanent nature and…[Read more]

Bright red pepper-pod . . .
it needs but shiny
wings and look . . .
Darting dragon-fly!

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]

Shell

The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and and you fly.

Courage has the power to change your life.
When you go into the uncharted sea, like Columbus did, there is fear, immense fear, because one never knows what is going to…[Read more]

Swallow in the dusk . . .
spare my little
buzzing friends
Among the flowers

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]

Pearl

Pearls symbolize wisdom acquired through experience.

Wisdom is significant only when it is blissful, and blissfulness is meaningful only when it has wisdom in it. Both can exist separately but then they are not meaningful.

Two things – happiness and wisdom – are needed to detect the presence of god. These two things balance each oth…[Read more]