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On this day, I think of … a single white rose.

White rose black dark marble
Purity, Innocence, perseveres, eternal love
Honoring names in stone.

Not quite haiku but not in the mood to play around with it. Under the hot summer sun, the fresh white rose was so starkly beautiful against the gleaming black stones carved with names of those who lost their lives that day – Hatred, ignorance and fanaticism is much to be feared. Thousands of lives just perished that day – each suffering, each with a story … each violently forced to punctuate their lives much much earlier than expected. Life is precious. Fear and Hatred destroys and ruins.

Love and Courage resurrects, restores and endures. Love, faith, hope – what’s eternal keeps us going …while severely tested when evil is unleashed. (Funny thing is they or “the enemy” perceives “America” as evil, the sane world, perceives them, the terror, as evil …) Inflicting violence is evil. The broken needs fixing…) How can we stop each other from perceiving the other “side” to be evil? Why do we have to resort to violence?

Heaven and Hell is not somewhere you go afterlife. Us humans create it right here on earth – so I know there will be eye-rolls as some idiotic idea but I actually think that if more people can afford to practice yoga, there will be more people who can feel that love is the answer – love is the religion. SOOO hard to practice when you feel you have been wronged or betrayed …but… Hatred and Fear is Evil that solves nothing. When you feel bad about yourself or your lot in life, then … nothing good happens as your interactions with the “world” is all cast in darkness and bitterness. Hope we can all have enough food and shelter and education – enough basic needs being met so that yoga practice can be incorporated into the everyday. When you feel good inside, you can’t help but to be more forgiving and generous, no? Am I a simplistic single celled … in other words, an idiot?

Statute of Liberty is beautiful and … the Goddess is still standing tall and strong. It was a relief to see her…it takes a Goddess, the divine empowered mother, to bring back sanity.

The only thing we have to fear is … fear itself.

– FDR

Not Nothing…

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

– Alan Watts

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

– Alan Watts

Too much thinking … let’s just think Nothing and Relax and … FLOAT…

Alan Watts – quite cool – We may suffer but … this is somehow comforting – isn’t it? Another perspective …

It’s all Nothing …

credit to modern calligrapher Eishu http://eishu.bananapage.net/

Liked this shared on FB and really exactly my thoughts these days…

The planet does not need more successful people.
The planet desperately needs more
peacemakers, healers, restorers,
storytellers and lovers of all kinds.

– Dalai Lama

& besides, how do you define success?

If you seek peace, if you need to be healed, restored, learn and be loved … then:

You provide peace which may include forgiveness, if you need to be healed, perhaps you can consider serving others who need a cure, concoct a remedy potion:) if you need to be fixed or restored, you may consider reaching out to restore others, if you need to learn from storytellers, practice empathy or teach… if you want to be loved, love art, love music, love all living creations … motto, motto. Then there will be more of what we need. In a small way. It does not have to be big, grand nor dramatic. In our small ways … it can be just taking care of a child or the aged … need not be about signing a peace treaty in war torn countries – just within your own sphere of influence, a small contribution, serve without expecting or calculating something in return – just loving those around you and closest to you (note: that includes yourself) for the huge difference in totality. Many are already doing this and I bow to those people.

Reality check: Yes, we do need the paycheck to pay that rent or mortgage … or for that education. SO balance out the needs but keep the above words in mind as we go through the day to day – it will make a difference on how you see “relationships”. We can all be more loving…without being selfless.

In terms of “education” costs – why education? So that we can discern TRUTH from deception or true masters from impostors and charlatans. There are many self promoting “authority” on stuff but we need to have discernment on what and who is truly AUTHENTIC, well trained and experienced, an expert who possess that wisdom and knowledge you need. Sometimes those teachers are found because of already widely known reputation and track record and history as a student/teacher but sometimes, they are found through serendipity. Those with humility may not have a huge promo and ads with tactical use of the social network marketing their expertise or wisdom…In fact, they may not even want to teach, wanting to just immerse themselves more into their arts… but that beauty is to the eyes of the beholder. Fate, luck, Karma … plays a role. With humility, I confess that everyone I meet is my teacher. Every single one.