Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts

Monday, November 2, 2015

two choices


Smiling Buddha, Angkor Wat

No matter where you are or what you're doing,

you have only two choices in life,

to be happy or not to be happy.

Which one do you choose?

There is no way to happiness,

happiness is the way.

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Monday, October 5, 2015

Vaishnav Jana to



Vaishnava (devotees of Lord Vishnu) people are those who,
Feel the pain of others,
Help those who are in misery,
But never let ego or conceit enter their mind.

Vaishnavas, respect the entire world,
Do not censure anyone,
Keep their words, actions and thoughts pure,
The mother of such a soul is blessed.

Vaishnavas see all equally, renounce greed and avarice,
Respect other woman as they respect their own mother,
Their tongue never utters false words,
Their hands would never touch the wealth of another.

Vaishnavas do not succumb to worldly attachments,
They are detached from worldly pleasures,
They are enticed by the name of God (Shri Ram),
All holy sites of pilgrimage are embodied within them.

Vaishnavas encompasses the absence of greed and deceit,
They have renounced all types of lust and anger,
The author of this poem would be grateful to meet such a soul,
Whose virtue liberates their entire lineage.

Narsinh Mehta, song's lyricist 15th century

Monday, September 14, 2015

Monday, August 24, 2015

Friday, August 14, 2015

Cry The Tears



I listen for Truth

For truth speaks softly

It is not boastful nor proud

Truth whispers low

Solemn quiet

It wraps around

Like Smoke

Subtle and free

Truth Knows no Boundaries

No limits Truth Speaks

From within

Not without

It floats In the spaces


Of dreams


It is not angry or vengeful


Truth simply is


It cannot Be hidden


Nor disguised Truth


Shines Like iridescent Dew


It rests Within Your heart


Of hearts Truth


Unchanged Living


The promise


As it was so


It shall Be


Cry The Tears

Dreamwalker
Lakota

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

The Razor's Edge




"Rise, wake up, seek the wise and realize.


The path is difficult to cross


like the sharpened edge of the razor,


so say the wise."


(verse 1.3.14 from the Katha Upanishads)


Tuesday, July 7, 2015

monkeys with guns



"We are buried beneath the weight of information,


which is being confused with knowledge,


quantity is being confused with abundance


and wealth with happiness.


We are monkeys with money and guns."



Wednesday, June 3, 2015

daring greatly


"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly." 

~ Theodore Roosevelt