“Things outside you are projections of what’s inside you, and what’s inside you is a projection of what’s outside. So when you step into the labyrinth outside you, at the same time you’re stepping into the labyrinth inside.”
Here’s what yogis and monks have known from ancient times – nothing new for someone practicing yoga but always nice to have a scientific or medical evidence to the claim for feelings of validation Click Here:)
And all yoga, whether movement based fitness or a quiet practice for regeneration, relaxation and healing – all prepares us for meditation. Labyrinth at the beach… walking the path.
じょいふる：）Girl POWER in Japan … Cute and … “JOYFUL”, From LOUD crescendo to hushed … diminuendo and then the volume goes up again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsvNsfPZPiE
They are just having fun being … JOYFUL in “matsuri” mode. Their idea of an idol might be a little different from a standard set here so wanted to share. No cleavage necessary, no high heels, no revealing skin showing or tight clothing basically needed to sell yourself … to be an idol there:) What a relief for moms of daughters…
I miss the participatory group energy – love the caller-response exchange and the comic touch. It probably looks a bit odd to the Westerners how the fans have a cheering section who dance along (same movements kind of like bon-odori at a festival…) – anyway, I don’t know why I am posting this (so unrelated to … yoga) I must be getting home sick… last year New Years and Christmas was in Tokyo but this year … not. sob.
No matter how long I have been here, I still consider where my mother is, where my father is buried, my home. But this adopted home is lovely too – in gratitude. America is a beautiful country too where the girls can truly shine, not just on stage but off the stage. I respect so many of the women around me who are so beautiful here.
America is a country of immigrants – If you can’t jump on the plane to go back to the old country to see your mother or your sister or ….. Then create a family here & be the seed … you can get “there” (where?) through the practice of yoga.
So sorry this post is not very ZEN:) but wanted to debunk Asian women’s stereotype of shyness (its dependent on a person not race) abroad and share this study in contrasts, where the opposites – the loud and the hushed silence (shh…) are … separate and one.
Her voice is delicate, not powerful and her breath-to-breath intake is pleasantly audible … her whole singing is “resistance breathing” in action? Practically fading out, yet, the audience wants to hear her so badly, swept over in total silence as we put down everything to turn our ears to her. Each word fully enunciated, with great care and …tenderness. It’s not the Broadway singing … it’s almost like poetry reading – breathy whisper…Goro Miyazaki must have his father’s sensitivity to have discovered her.
This is an Irish folk song melody with … Japanese lyrics.
Breathy, feathery … fragile and yet purposeful … “arigato”… in gratitude.
あなたがいる You are here
やわらかな光みちる家 in our home filled with soft light
あなたがいる何気ない毎日の中に you are here, in the ordinary day to day
あふれる緑ときれいな水 there’s abundance of greenery spilling over, there’s clear water
そしてあなたがいる and … you are here
それだけで幸せになれる that’s all …you are here and that’s all I need to be happy
そばにいるよ I am near (I stand by you)
風の日も、心迷う日も on windy days and even on heart wrought, confused days
そばにいるよ I am near (I stand by you)
寄り添えばここはあたたかい it’s warm here when we snuggle
あなたの笑顔が私の宝物 your smile is my treasure
こんなおだやかな日々が私の喜び my joy lies in days spent in peaceful harmony
ともに生きていく 明日を守りたい To walk this journey together, protecting our tomorrow
あなたとそしてすべてのいのちのために。 With you and for every life and all lives.
– lyrics by Hiroko Taniyama
– English translation by me
I know to some, it’s corny and for the sad people, maybe even kitsch but … I love corny and kitsch.
