Welcome to the sixth mindful words of wisdom (wow) series. Every experience offers us an opportunity to choose and respond with either love or fear. Hatred, envy, anger are all attributed to the opposite of all-embracing love; when pains and suffering are inevitable, "bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them." Just like … Continue reading Mindful Wisdom 06
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDaZu_KEMCY Natalie Portman Harvard Commencement Speech | 2015 Best lesson learned today—what it meant by feeling utter comfortable in our own skin. Natalie is leading by example and bringing purpose to her greatest strength. What useful I've found is her graceful courage to tap into her own obliviousness and be free from it. Come as … Continue reading Vulnerability
“Life is a mystery, everyone must stand aloneI hear you call my nameAnd it feels like home” One year ago, February 13, off from Boreal Coffee Shop, drizzling afternoon, 4:33. A captivative single shot - knowingly, out on my first excursion to a whole new, unfamiliar territory. Strolling. One year later, onto the fifth day … Continue reading Amélie
Photo by Rose @Nanshan Temple, Hainan, CN1/10/2020 11:42 AM Welcome to the fifth mindful words of wisdom (wow) series. I am immensely grateful to share this distilled collection of offerings from the journey within. Wishing all-embracing love fulfills the souls with ease and effectiveness. “We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.” - … Continue reading Mindful Wisdom 05
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0igPuDjYUE non-attachment is an attitude of creation For Belonging by John O'Donohue May you listen to your longing to be free. May the frames of your belonging be generous enough for your dreams. My you arise each day with a voice of blessing whispering in your heart. May you find a harmony between your soul and … Continue reading Later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teyBeOjP3lA&autoplay=1&rel=0&controls=0&fs=0 ALL I NEED - feat. Lila Liu (LOVIN' MIX) God grant me the SERENITYto accept the things I cannot change; COURAGE to change the things I can; and WISDOM to know the difference. Living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; taking, as He did, this sinful worldas … Continue reading All I Need
This essay intended to respond to Pachirat’s kill floor – “a place that is no place,” the highly manual labored and ‘automated violence’ to what seemingly indulgent food product - packaged meat, in relation to supermarkets and fast-food restaurants. Further, this essay was written and propelled by the distilled inquiries from documentaries such as Dominion (2018), Slaughterhouse - What … Continue reading Concealment
Photo by Rose @Lake Erie, IL, USA6/24/2018 5:26 PM Welcome to the fourth mindful words of wisdom (wow) series. I am thankful for the University of Minnesota's Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing. Nine months IN since my first involvement last May for Mindful Mondays (former Stress Busters). Now I am in full wings of … Continue reading Mindful Wisdom 04
https://youtu.be/OBHdKYNRDuY Dharma Talk at Upaya Zen Center with Natalie Goldberg “But I can say one of my favorite books about writing is Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg, and she is a poet. Her website is https://nataliegoldberg.com/. Also the Poetry Foundation has a great list of writing prompts they release each April for National … Continue reading Writing
The circularity of dreams is untouchable. Alive, yet blurry from hindsight. Empty wheelchair. Flattened, broad, and extended spiral staircases. Repetitions. Endless racing footsteps. School. Strange entity. Mind's eyes. Mindless prefrontal cortex. Dropping celling. Dimmed corridor. Dusty air. Chalkboard grey pixels... Antique bicycles flavored. Hurrying to the Exit. Bittersweet. Calm heart. Brighten the crack of the … Continue reading Dreams
