As I read an online article today, I suddenly recalled an intensely stressful day not so long ago. My marriage was rocky and stressful on the bad days and indifferent on the good ones. We would subtly create our own spaces in the cocoon called home. The bad days though were spewed with irritations and … Continue reading Healer Horse
My Zen lessons are nowadays few and far between as life has decided to throw all sorts of challenges at me in the last few months or even years. In my opinion, it's teaching me to 'catch' and to deal with my fears and grow. And, I welcome them....honestly, more like, gulp them down like … Continue reading Heart Joy
Have you had a good chat with yourself recently? I did. Twice recently, to be precise. I sort of woke up (but actually I must have been only half-awake since I was still sleeping in my place) in the dead of the night with a sense of urgency to have a chat with myself. It … Continue reading Mirror, mirror on the Wall
Suddenly, in a bleak moment, as I was wondering what the best approach was in moving forward - eureka, a golden insight, a puzzle I had unknowingly cradled for long was CRACKED!! I feel my guides besides me (in fact, around me) as I write this.... Yes, the mythical rock that we are rolling up … Continue reading Myth of Sisyphus – baggage
As we wandered through the supermarket, my little girl switched from the 'I want....'s to a fragrance. In a fruit-lined, fresh coffee-brewing, tins-bedecked alley, my daughter remarked that she smelled the neighbours. I think she meant that it smelled like their chique, urbane and yet so down-to-earth house there. I stopped in my tracks, breathed … Continue reading Mundane Musings
The end of my 20-minute meditation was quite productive today 😃🤔 as I contemplated various states I experience during my Zen practice. Today’s was a rather quiet, deep and profound journey where I was sucked into the sweet nothingness of ourselves & the Universe while my breath deepened and got subtler. All this happening in … Continue reading Meditation Ramblings
It's interesting how synchronicity works. One weekend, I raised a question to a Tibetan Buddhism scholar about transforming (fear) energy and within days, I had my very own experiential insight... (well, also interesting and refreshing how the Lama had defined sychronicity itself too, but that's for another time, perhaps). I had recently become aware that … Continue reading Rendezvous with Fear
