Aditya Shah

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]