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.