There is so much Magnificence

As the End of the World seems to be put on ice, let me share with all Mankind a wish of peace and inner growing. I hope people could feel the fellings of the great Magnificence around us. Wherever we are, all is so beautiful and harmonic.

Ommm Shanti!

They are Deva Premal & Miten, and the concert was recorded in Byron Bay, Australia, on february 2008. If you don't know them, have a look. You won't be disappointed.

Very Rational

"Whatever has the mind as its source! Mind is the leading builder and mind is all that was done. If a person speaks or acts with impure mind, suffering will follow him in the same way as the wheel follows the ox pulling the wagon. "

"Whatever has the mind as its source! Mind is the leading builder and the mind is anything created. If a person speaks and acts with pure mind, happiness follows him like his shadow that never leaves him."

Buddha.

Hi there! 

Sometimes in Life, we all must afford very complicated situations. Economic deffaults, personal crisis or healing challenges, so it is in other words: health, love and money/material goods... the three global subjects whoever needs to take care of. A balanced life should be made of a complex mix of them as you may know. But, what I realized is that the three issues are, in fact, under command of our mind. All what you do or say, has been first created by your mind as a thought which, if powered or repeated enough times, becomes a real feeling. 

And here it is, our feelings, these which make us feel;  relaxed, happy, upset, destroyed, down, active, and so on. The way we feel frees chemical substances which are directed right to our brain conditioning the response our mind will order. In fact, all actions and commands flow from mind and, if that is true, we can easily think that having control over our mind we should control feelings and as a result, we would be able to control our responses or actions. 

Does it sound very rational? Well, these days I've been caught by the golden words of Buddha, up above. And I can't stop thinking of how much right their words are. It seems that, working hard about the idea of getting mind under control, it will allow us for getting really powerful and free of choice, free of living life the way we want under our own rules. We decide to be whatever, for good or even for bad; gentle, charming, critic, liar, sweet, whatever you want. But, as it will be always a free decision, at this point a question comes to me: 

Are we all ready to decide becoming responsable for our life?

NYC Yoga

These days New York City has been taken by hundreds or meybe thousand of Yoga's practitioners. It must have been an awesome performance as you can check out in the pictures below:

Source: Lindsay Funston  from Whole Living

The purpose of this huge gathering in the middle of Times Square was the summer solstice celebration. The event had an international impact for its singularity. A lot of people doing yoga and projecting such a state of wellness in a place like that would be a must.

Source: Timesquarenyc.org 

Scenes like these make me come up with the idea of giving back the art of being in peace inner and outside of ourselves, even in places where it seems impossible to be. Yoga but also Reiki, Tai Chi and so on, every discipline allowing us to find our real role in life. The number of the participants and the mediatc impact also abroad, is a demostration of a truth always denied, so, there is another way of doing things, of getting a life and stay all together whichs doesn't need money, tricks, or harries to be done.

As you might see, the philosophies I'm talking about, come from the Far East. There, where it seems to be yet a closeness between human being and the essence of life which envolves us from the beginning. These lost feelings nowadays in the west. Or, watching the pictures, maybe there is a chance...

Hanshan Bell

Nî hâo (你好),

I'd like to share with you a great and inspirational melody. In East Asia, a few miles away from Suzhou, there is a Buddish temple named Hanshan (Chinese: 寒山寺, Pinyin: Hánshân Sì). One of the reasons why it is well known and famed is because of the poem "A Night Mooring by Maple Bridge" (楓橋夜泊). The text is about the feelings experimented by a dejected traveller who stopped a night in that beautiful place, and it shows a melancholic scene plenty of calm, peace, and easy-going people all around while hearing the bells of Hashan Temple. 

The song is one of the most beautiful and used by people interested in meditation, Reiki, relaxing, or whatever it brings a peace of far east culture. Here are the lyrics from:

月落烏啼霜滿天， 江楓漁火對愁眠。 姑蘇城外寒山寺， 夜半鐘聲到客船。

Yuè luò wū tí shuāng mǎn tiān, Jiāng fēng yú huǒ duì chóu mián. Gūsū chéngwài Hánshān Sì, Yèbàn zhōngshēng dào kèchuán

Which it means: 

While I watch the moon go down, a crow caws through the frost; 
Under the shadows of maple-trees a fisherman moves with his torch;

And I hear, from beyond Suzhou, from the temple on Cold Mountain,

Ringing for me, here in my boat, the midnight bell.

But, surely, what makes the difference is the return on the poem made by a chinese chorus. Very close to the Gregorian Chants and halfway to New Age music, the melody manages to swamp the listener in a very deep and peaceful state. Now, I'd like to invite you all to listen to the following version of "A Night Mooring by Maple Bridge" performed by Jin Long Uen and Song Uei Liou:

Thanks for reading. Just for today I whish you all love and peace.