Aditya Shah

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]

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]