There are two thing to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
-Logan Pearsall Smith
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Thoughts of today 2010.05.27
I try to leave the past ... to live in this moment ... and making plans for the future.
But today I will only relax on my free day :-)
But today I will only relax on my free day :-)
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
On this day of your life, Jessica, I believe God wants you to know...
...that it doesn't have to be Leap Year for you to leap
into a new tomorrow.
A totally different you can emerge from a totally
different idea that you have about yourself. All it takes
is a decision to change your mind about Who You
Are and why you are here..
Perspective is everything. What would it take to
elevate your awareness on this day? Whatever it
would take, do that. Don't just think about it. Do it.
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Thank you Neale ... good reminder :-)
I´m on my way ... taking step by step !!
Monday, May 24, 2010
Result: Kamael
Kamael, his name meaning "he who sees God", he is listed as one of the seven truly powerful Angels who have the great honor of standing in the very presence of God.
Originally the God of War in Druid mythology, he is frequently referred to as the ruler of the planet Ma...rs, as well as one of the governing Angels of the seven planets.
Kamael serves as the mediator, taking prayers of Israel before the Angelic princes residing in the seventh heaven. Appears as a warrior dressed in a red tunic.
He wears green armour plates, an iron helmet and has large green wings.
He carries a scale of justice.
The most impressive trait of this Archangel is his knowledge of Karma.
Kamael can show you how to make up for bad karma and how to purify yourself in this incarnation. He teaches that there are many point of view to be honoured.
Helps you to make justice decisions where your point of view is combined with others.
He carries a message dont judge yourself harshly and dont be too demanding.
Originally the God of War in Druid mythology, he is frequently referred to as the ruler of the planet Ma...rs, as well as one of the governing Angels of the seven planets.
Kamael serves as the mediator, taking prayers of Israel before the Angelic princes residing in the seventh heaven. Appears as a warrior dressed in a red tunic.
He wears green armour plates, an iron helmet and has large green wings.
He carries a scale of justice.
The most impressive trait of this Archangel is his knowledge of Karma.
Kamael can show you how to make up for bad karma and how to purify yourself in this incarnation. He teaches that there are many point of view to be honoured.
Helps you to make justice decisions where your point of view is combined with others.
He carries a message dont judge yourself harshly and dont be too demanding.
Du får inte
You may not knock on my door
Unless you are prepared to enter
You may not remake my name
And start to call me for yours
And you can not walk on my path
Without showing me your goal
And do not steal from my goodness
To fill up your hole
And you can not tear down my walls
As I have carefully have built
If you do not protect my dreams
So that I can sleep safely
And you can not have me as a dream
When I want to be your reality
And you can not say that you hope
If you do not think you know
But you can take your time
To understand what it is you want
You may pray a prayer that the time
You need is enough
And you may gather your thoughts
So that two souls can find peace
And so that everything we promised
Ourselves, can grow
You can not breathe on my forehead
And do not make me fall more
If you can not then stand for
All the mess you give
And you can not touch my heart
As if everything was clear
But I would like nothing else
Than you to do everything at me soon
You may take your time(To understand what it is you want)
What is it you want?
You may pray a prayer that the time
You need is enough
And you may gather your thoughts
(So that two souls can find peace)
And so that everything we promised
Ourselves (can grow)
You may take your time
To understand what it is you want
(What do you want?)
You may pray a prayer that the time
You will need is enough
And you may gather your thoughts
So that two souls can find peace
And so that everything we promised
Ourselves (can grow)
And you can not touch my heart
As if everything was clear
But I have a strong wish
Than you to do everything at me soon
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Ultimate Accident
Chiyono and her bucket of water
It is not a certain sequence of causes that brings enlightenment.
Your search, your intense longing, your readiness to do anything--altogether perhaps they create a certain aroma around you in which that great accident becomes possible.
The nun Chiyono studied for years, but was unable to find enlightenment.
One night, she was carrying an old pail filled with water. As she was walking along, she was watching the full moon reflected in the pail of water.
Suddenly, the bamboo strips that held the pail together broke, and the pail fell apart.
The water rushed out; the moon's reflection disappeared--and Chiyono became enlightened.
She wrote this verse:
This way and that way I tried to keep the pail together,
hoping the weak bamboo would never break.
Suddenly the bottom fell out.
No more water; no more moon in the water--
emptiness in my hand.
Enlightenment is always like an accident because it is unpredictable--because you cannot manage it, you cannot cause it to happen.
But don't misunderstand me, because when I say enlightenment is just like an accident, I am not saying don't do anything to attain it.
The accident happens only to those who have been doing much for it--but it never happens because of their doing.
The doing is just a cause which creates the situation in them so they become accident-prone, that's all. That is the meaning of this beautiful happening.
I must tell you something about Chiyono. She was a very beautiful woman--when she was young, even the emperor and the princes were after her.
She refused because she wanted to be a lover only to the divine. She went from one monastery to another to become a nun; but even great masters refused--there were so many monks, and she was so beautiful that they would forget God and everything.
So everywhere the door was closed.
So what did Chiyono do? Finding no other way, she burned her face, scarred her whole face.
And then she went to a master; he couldn't even recognize whether she was a woman or a man.
Then she was accepted as a nun. She studied, meditated for thirty, forty years continuously.
Then suddenly, one night... she was looking at the moon reflected in the pail. Suddenly the pail fell down, the water rushed out, and the moon disappeared--and that became the trigger-point.
There is always a trigger-point from where the old disappears and the new starts, from where you are reborn. That became the trigger-point. Suddenly, the water rushed out and there was no moon. So she must have looked up--and the real moon was there.
Suddenly she became awakened to this fact, that everything was a reflection, an illusion, because it was seen through the mind. As the pail broke, the mind inside also broke.
It was ready. All that could be done had been done.
All that could be possible, she had done it. Nothing was left, she was ready, she had earned it. This ordinary incident became a trigger-point.
Suddenly the bottom fell out--it was an accident. No more water; no more moon in the water--emptiness in my hand.
And this is enlightenment: when emptiness is in your hand, when everything is empty, when there is nobody, not even you.
You have attained to the original face of Zen.
Detachment
Hakuin and the infant child
Go on feeling something in you that is the same no matter what happens on the periphery.
When someone is insulting you, focus yourself to the point where you are just listening to him--not doing anything, not reacting, just listening. He is insulting you.
And then someone is praising you--just listen. Insult-praise, honor-dishonor, just listen.
Your periphery will get disturbed. Look at that also, don't try to change it.
Look at it; remain deep in your center, looking from there.
You will have a detachment which is not forced, which is spontaneous, which is natural.
And once you have the feeling of the natural detachment, nothing can disturb you.
In a village where the great Zen master Hakuin was living, a girl became pregnant.
Her father bullied her for the name of her lover and, in the end, to escape punishment she told him it was Hakuin.
The father said no more, but when the time came and the child was born, he at once took the baby to Hakuin and threw it down.
"It seems that this is your child," he said, and he piled on every insult and sneer at the disgrace of the affair.
Hakuin only said, "Oh, is that so?" and took the baby in his arms.
Wherever he went thereafter, he took the baby, wrapped in the sleeve of his ragged robe. During rainy days and stormy nights he would go out to beg milk from the neighboring houses.
Many of his disciples, considering him fallen, turned against him and left.
And Hakuin said not a word.
Meantime, the mother found she could not bear the agony of separation from her child.
She confessed the name of the real father, and her own father rushed to Hakuin and prostrated himself, begging over and over for forgiveness. Hakuin said only, "Oh, is that so?" and gave him the child back.
For the ordinary man what others say matters too much, because he has nothing of his own. Whatever he thinks he is, is just a collection of opinions of other people.
Somebody has said, "You are beautiful," somebody has said, "You are intelligent," and he has been collecting all these. Hence he's always afraid: he should not behave in such a way that he loses his reputation, respectability.
He is always afraid of public opinion, what people will say, because all that he knows about himself is what people have said about him. If they take it back, they leave him naked.
Then he does not know who he is, ugly, beautiful, intelligent, unintelligent.
He has no idea, even vaguely, of his own being; he depends on others.
But the man of meditation has no need of others' opinions.
He knows himself, so it does not matter what others say.
Even if the whole world says something that goes against his own experience, he will simply laugh. At the most, that can be the only response.
But he is not going to take any step to change people's opinion. Who are they?
They don't know themselves and they are trying to label him. He will reject labeling.
He will simply say, "Whatever I am, I am, and this is the way I am going to be."
Go on feeling something in you that is the same no matter what happens on the periphery.
When someone is insulting you, focus yourself to the point where you are just listening to him--not doing anything, not reacting, just listening. He is insulting you.
And then someone is praising you--just listen. Insult-praise, honor-dishonor, just listen.
Your periphery will get disturbed. Look at that also, don't try to change it.
Look at it; remain deep in your center, looking from there.
You will have a detachment which is not forced, which is spontaneous, which is natural.
And once you have the feeling of the natural detachment, nothing can disturb you.
In a village where the great Zen master Hakuin was living, a girl became pregnant.
Her father bullied her for the name of her lover and, in the end, to escape punishment she told him it was Hakuin.
The father said no more, but when the time came and the child was born, he at once took the baby to Hakuin and threw it down.
"It seems that this is your child," he said, and he piled on every insult and sneer at the disgrace of the affair.
Hakuin only said, "Oh, is that so?" and took the baby in his arms.
Wherever he went thereafter, he took the baby, wrapped in the sleeve of his ragged robe. During rainy days and stormy nights he would go out to beg milk from the neighboring houses.
Many of his disciples, considering him fallen, turned against him and left.
And Hakuin said not a word.
Meantime, the mother found she could not bear the agony of separation from her child.
She confessed the name of the real father, and her own father rushed to Hakuin and prostrated himself, begging over and over for forgiveness. Hakuin said only, "Oh, is that so?" and gave him the child back.
For the ordinary man what others say matters too much, because he has nothing of his own. Whatever he thinks he is, is just a collection of opinions of other people.
Somebody has said, "You are beautiful," somebody has said, "You are intelligent," and he has been collecting all these. Hence he's always afraid: he should not behave in such a way that he loses his reputation, respectability.
He is always afraid of public opinion, what people will say, because all that he knows about himself is what people have said about him. If they take it back, they leave him naked.
Then he does not know who he is, ugly, beautiful, intelligent, unintelligent.
He has no idea, even vaguely, of his own being; he depends on others.
But the man of meditation has no need of others' opinions.
He knows himself, so it does not matter what others say.
Even if the whole world says something that goes against his own experience, he will simply laugh. At the most, that can be the only response.
But he is not going to take any step to change people's opinion. Who are they?
They don't know themselves and they are trying to label him. He will reject labeling.
He will simply say, "Whatever I am, I am, and this is the way I am going to be."
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Lakota Instructions for Living
Friend do it this way - that is,
whatever you do in life,
do the very best you can
with both your heart and mind.
And if you do it that way,
the Power Of The Universe
will come to your assistance,
if your heart and mind are in Unity.
When one sits in the Hoop Of The People,
one must be responsible because
All of Creation is related.
And the hurt of one is the hurt of all.
And the honor of one is the honor of all.
And whatever we do effects everything in the universe.
If you do it that way - that is,
if you truly join your heart and mind
as One - whatever you ask for,
that's the Way It's Going To Be.
//passed down from White Buffalo Calf Woman
Friend do it this way - that is,
whatever you do in life,
do the very best you can
with both your heart and mind.
And if you do it that way,
the Power Of The Universe
will come to your assistance,
if your heart and mind are in Unity.
When one sits in the Hoop Of The People,
one must be responsible because
All of Creation is related.
And the hurt of one is the hurt of all.
And the honor of one is the honor of all.
And whatever we do effects everything in the universe.
If you do it that way - that is,
if you truly join your heart and mind
as One - whatever you ask for,
that's the Way It's Going To Be.
//passed down from White Buffalo Calf Woman
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Image of today 2010.05.05
Found this image today. it spoke to me indeed :-)
The text that was written underneath the picture:
Ardhanarishvara,
or the viewing of the androgynous deity composed of Shiva and his consort Shakti/Parvati (commonly viewed as male and female halves of the same deity).
They are accompanied by a lion and a bull, which are symbols, respectively, of the solar and lunar; in contrast to the European conception, however, Shiva is seen as a “moon-man”,
while Parvati is a “sun-woman”, thus emphasizing the divisions within divisions.
The text that was written underneath the picture:
Ardhanarishvara,
or the viewing of the androgynous deity composed of Shiva and his consort Shakti/Parvati (commonly viewed as male and female halves of the same deity).
They are accompanied by a lion and a bull, which are symbols, respectively, of the solar and lunar; in contrast to the European conception, however, Shiva is seen as a “moon-man”,
while Parvati is a “sun-woman”, thus emphasizing the divisions within divisions.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
A little story about fragility of life 2010.05.02
When I came first to an car accident last year, I felt very afraid.
Then I told myself if it was you sitting in that car would you want some help then?
The answer was ofcourse yes, so I gathered courage and not knowing if someone was dead or really bad injured I had all kind of images in my head.
One person was bad injured and gas was running under the car.
But I was just acting, focusing on doing the best I could in this situation.
Then a ambulance helicopter came and firefighters and the police, then my knees was shaking and I saw that I had blood on my hands.
I was really shocked afterwards and it took me sometime to realize what I had done.
It could have been me in that accident because I was turning around for a paper that I forgot at home and that took me half a minute.
So I became aware once again how fragile our lifes can be, and that we should live the life to the fullest when we are here and help each other when we can.
Love Jessica
Then I told myself if it was you sitting in that car would you want some help then?
The answer was ofcourse yes, so I gathered courage and not knowing if someone was dead or really bad injured I had all kind of images in my head.
One person was bad injured and gas was running under the car.
But I was just acting, focusing on doing the best I could in this situation.
Then a ambulance helicopter came and firefighters and the police, then my knees was shaking and I saw that I had blood on my hands.
I was really shocked afterwards and it took me sometime to realize what I had done.
It could have been me in that accident because I was turning around for a paper that I forgot at home and that took me half a minute.
So I became aware once again how fragile our lifes can be, and that we should live the life to the fullest when we are here and help each other when we can.
Love Jessica
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