Aditya Shah

Silent the old town . . .
the scent of flowers
floating . . .
And evening bell

With maturity out of awareness person become silent. When someone become silent he become aware of his surrounding also. He can smell of scent of flowers which is floating in air. He is in middle like evening. Day has gone and still night not started.

If you can…[Read more]

Door

Through the Door we can enter and exit. It is upto us how we use it.

Present moment is door either you can enter into yourself or you can exit from yourself. If you become self-alert and enter into yourself – you got the key to enter into unknown.

To accept the challenge of the unknown is courage:
In the beginning there is no big…[Read more]

Chrysanthemum
Silence – monk
Sips his morning tea.

Chrysanthemum is used for meditation. When you become silent your any act can become meditation.

Zen is simply a technique of entering into your veryness. The entrance is so deep that nothing remains, and all is found.

Silence is when you connect with your core consciousness and your deepest…[Read more]

Rock

We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know – we have forgotten how to be – to be still – to be ourselves – to be where life is here and now.

When you lose yourself in doing, you lose mindfulness and always want to arrive at the next moment. You’re never fully in the doing. Your attention is always on the next thing, or where y…[Read more]

Wake! The sky is light!
let us to the road
again . . .
Companion butterfly!

When sky is light means state of no-thoughts. This is moment is possibility to become alert towards self. If you become alert towards yourself, transformation happens.
The butterfly symbolizes transformation and joy. Its dance reflects the need for movement from where we…[Read more]

Peepal

It is said that Peepal tree never sheds all of its leaves at one time. Once the leaves start to fall from the tree, the new leaves keep coming by taking a new birth. And this simple thing signifies the cycle of death and life.
Also it is said that Peepal tree is immortal as it never dies which also signifies the permanent nature and…[Read more]

Bright red pepper-pod . . .
it needs but shiny
wings and look . . .
Darting dragon-fly!

When mind is mixed up with reality it creates unreal world.

Hindus call this world maya, illusory, dreamlike, mind-stuff. What do they mean? Do they mean that it is unreal? No, it is not unreal, but when your mind gets mixed into it, you create an unreal…[Read more]

Shell

The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and and you fly.

Courage has the power to change your life.
When you go into the uncharted sea, like Columbus did, there is fear, immense fear, because one never knows what is going to…[Read more]

Swallow in the dusk . . .
spare my little
buzzing friends
Among the flowers

When one dissolve in existence, he surrender himself and in gratitude he ask forgiveness from his own mind, saying goodbye to him. Even though the mind is biggest barrier between us and existence, still in gratitude he is thankful to his own mind.

Gratitude creates a…[Read more]

Pearl

Pearls symbolize wisdom acquired through experience.

Wisdom is significant only when it is blissful, and blissfulness is meaningful only when it has wisdom in it. Both can exist separately but then they are not meaningful.

Two things – happiness and wisdom – are needed to detect the presence of god. These two things balance each oth…[Read more]

Such utter silence!
even the crickets’
singing . . .
Muffled by hot rocks.

What is silence?
Stop fulfilling expectations of others, because that is the only way you can commit suicide. You are not here to fulfill anybody’s expectations and nobody else is here to fulfill your expectations. Never become a victim of others expectations and don’t…[Read more]

Cow

Cow – The Universal symbol of Motherhood.

Just to give birth to a child is one thing – to be a mother is totally different. Any woman can give birth to a child; that’s a very simple phenomenon. But to be a mother needs great art, needs great understanding.

The woman passes through those nine months of agony and ecstasy. And then the work…[Read more]

Must springtime fade?
then cry all birds . . .
and fishes
Cold pale eyes pour tears

When we feel separation from the existence, the pain of separation save us from all the afflictions.

The sadness of separating from you (Existence), Has saved me from all other afflictions. None dares to approach me now.
In time, only one memory will remain -…[Read more]

Pipe

A pipe is a tubular section or hollow cylinder, usually but not necessarily of circular cross-section, used mainly to convey substances which can flow — liquids and gases (fluids), slurries, powders and masses of small solids.

Words are hollow like a pipe.
Which means that they will take on the characteristics of whatever we put into t…[Read more]

Cloud of cherry-bloom . . .
tolling twilight
bell . . . Temple
Ueno? Asakura?

When you are silent, you are in middle, like twilight. Person who is in total silent can hear universal sound.
Sit in the silence of the night and listen to it. This sound of stillness is very close to the ego. When Omkar begins to sound within you, at first you will…[Read more]

Milk

Milk symbolizes the MOTHER, it is deeply connected with life itself.

The real purpose of life is just to be happy—to enjoy your life.
When challenges arise in your life, what happens inside of you? For many of us, the larger the “problem,” the more we resist, contract, and react unconsciously. On the other hand, in any given moment we have…[Read more]

Too curious flower
watching us pass,
met death . . .
Our hungry donkey

Like flower when our being blooms, we becomes watcher, ego dies and we live in this world without losing individuality.

Individuality means your uniqueness — not compared with anybody else. Your incomparable uniqueness: that is individuality. Individuality is beautiful; t…[Read more]

Neck

Neck is bridge between head and body.

Consciousness is the bridge, the golden bridge, from this world to the other, from hell to heaven, from the ego to the divine.

Consciousness is your nature; mind is just the circumference created by the society around you, the culture, your education.

Mind means the conditioning. You can have a Hindu…[Read more]