Aditya Shah

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]