Aditya Shah

Dry cheerful cricket
chirping, keeps
the autumn gay . . .
Contemptuous of frost.

As chilly winter nights cool the body, cricket may be looking for a way to warm up that doesn’t include turning up the heat. He is enjoying his inner warmth – love.

Remember, in our inmost being, we are all completely lovable because spirit is love. Beyond what a…[Read more]

Turtle

The turtle totem wisdom teaches us about walking our path in peace and sticking to it with determination and serenity.
Turtle is slow and steady.

Life is a race that takes lot of confidence and will power to succeed ahead of others. But is success something that we can get with laziness or carelessness? No. We should be very strong in…[Read more]

Will we meet again
here at your
flowering grave . . .
Two white butterflies?

When person is going through death experience at that time simultaneously he experience life into death.

Death Is the Most Misunderstood Phenomenon
Death is the most misunderstood phenomenon. People have thought of death as the end of life. That is the first, basic…[Read more]

Arrow

You have to relax when you’re shooting an arrow. You can’t be tense. And that just helps, in your day-to-day life.

Relaxation Is Just Being Natural:
Total relaxation is the ultimate. That’s the moment when one becomes a buddha. That is the moment of realization, enlightenment, christ-consciousness. You cannot be totally relaxed right now.…[Read more]

Now in sad autumn
as I take my
darkening path . . .
A solitary bird

Whenever we meet ourselves we find no object over there, just emptiness. As we are not familiar with our emptiness we feel like autumn, everything has fall apart. We compare that emptiness with darkness. But in reality it is full of life, silence.

Truth is a transcendence. Truth…[Read more]

Ship

Ship reminds us Cruise Ships, delightful ambiance that’s a hybrid of luxury and destination-immersive cruising. This give us the memory of vacation, relaxations.

A Modern Glimpse into Ancient Relaxation Practices:
Relaxation techniques such as yoga and meditation have been around for thousands of years. Countless generations have shown us…[Read more]

Here, where a thousand
captains swore grand
conquest . . .
Tall Grass their monument

One the unique things about the grass symbol is that you never find just one blade of grass by itself. You can find flowers, trees, animals, and people who spend their time alone, but grass is also surrounded by more grass. This makes grass a great symbol for…[Read more]

Mud

Can you think of two things as different as mud and a lotus flower? But the lotus flower comes from the mud and rises above the waters …the lotus flower is such a transformation, but without the mud there will be no lotus flowers.

Tantra is a life approach, which honours everything that the human being is, as divine. There is a saying in…[Read more]

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]

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]