Senin, 22 Oktober 2012

I'm smiling to myself today.

 
I am smiling to myself today,
There's no wish left in my heart,
Or perhaps there's no heart left,
Free from all desire,
I sit quietly like Earth,
My silent cry echoes like thunder,
Throughout the Universe,
I am not worried about it,
I know it will be heard by no one,
Except me.
 
(Rumi)
 


Sabtu, 20 Oktober 2012

To let be.

 
 
"The truth is, you cannot try to let go,
trying, is the opposite of letting go,
to let go is to relinquish trying,
to let go is much more like
to let be."
 
(Adyashanti)


Jumat, 19 Oktober 2012

Seeds.

 
"Don't judge everyday by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds that you plant."


Senin, 15 Oktober 2012

Lesson in life.

 
A wise man sat in an audience and cracked a joke,
everybody laughed like crazy
after a moment he cracked the same joke again,
this time less people laughed
He cracked the same joke again and again,
when there's no laughter in the audience,
He smiled and said,
"you can't laugh at the same joke again and again,
but why do you kept crying over the same thing
over and over again?"


Jumat, 12 Oktober 2012

Floating.

after Havens
 
"Clouds come floating into my life
no longer to carry rain
nor usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky."
 
(Rabindranath Tagore, in stray birds)


Sabtu, 06 Oktober 2012

Gracias a la vida,

 
Gracias a la vida, que me ha dado tanto
Thanks to life, which has given me so much,
Me dio dos luceros, que cuando los abro
It gave me two bright eyes, that when opened,
Perfecto distingo lo negro del blanco
Can perfectly distinguish black from white,
 
Gracias a la vida, que me ha dado tanto
Thanks to life, which has given me so much,
Me ha dado el oido que todo su ancho
It gave me an ear that, in all of its breadth,
Graba noche y dia grillos y canarios
Records, night and day, crickets and canaries,
 
Gracias a la vida, que me ha dado tanto
Thanks to life, which has given me so much,
Me ha dado el sonido y el abecedario
It gave me the sound and the alphabet,
Con el las palabras que pienso y declaro
With them the words that I think and declare,
Madre, amigo, hermano, y luz alumbrando
Mother, friend, brother, and the light,
 
Gracias a la vida, que me ha dado tanto
Thanks to life which has given me so much,
Me ha dado la marcha de mis pies cansados
It gave the ability to walk with my tired feet,
Con ellos anduve ciudades y charcos
With them I traversed cities and puddles,
Valles y desiertos, montanas y llanos
Valley and deserts, mountains and plains,
 
Gracias a la vida, que me ha dado tanto
Thanks to life which has given me so much,
Me dio el corazon, que agita su marco
It gave me a heart, that causes my fame to shudder,
Cuando miro al bueno tan lejos del malo
When I see good so far from bad,
 
Gracias a la vida, que me ha dado tanto
Thanks to life which has given me so much
Me ha dado la risa, me ha dado el ilanto
It gave me laughter and it gave me tears,
Asi yo distingo dicha de quebranto
With them I distinguish happiness and pain
Los dos materiales que forman mi vida
The two materials from which my life is formed.
 
(Violeta Parra 1917-1967)
 


Kamis, 04 Oktober 2012

Inner child.

 
"I am a sorrowful child, never grown up,
From the grassy north shore, I followed
a bright white road into
a city full of gears, narrow alleys and wooden shacks,
In a bland shade of smoke,
I kept dreaming of green lands,
I believe in  dreaming,
the sky and sea spray, will cover my sorrow,
cover my undiscoverable grave,
Only untill then I will know,
 wheather the grasses and wild flowers will gather,
with the dim lights,
to kiss over my sorrows."
 
(from; curricullum vitae,
by Gu Cheng, 1956-1993)


Senin, 01 Oktober 2012

Impermanence.

after Anthony Rider
 
"Impermanence is a principle of harmony.
When we don't struggle against it,
we are in harmony with reality."
 
(Pema Chodron)