Aditya Shah

Even with insects —
some can sing,
some can’t.

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]

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]