From the book, The Sun My Heart.
Let us amuse ourselves for a moment with a dance, so that we can better understand “knowing”. Suppose I say, “I know that it’s windy.” “I” refers more to my mind than my body, so this sentence really means, “My mind knows that it is windy.” Mind is the [...]
Sunshine is green leaves
Green leaves are sunshine
Sunshine is not different from green leaves
Green leaves are not different from sunshine
The same is true of all forms and colors.
by Thich Nhat Hanh.
Zen poems:
One Knows Not.
From the book, The Sun My Heart by Thich Nhat Hanh.
Meditation is not imitation, but creation. Meditators who only imitate their instructors cannot go far. The same is true of cooking, or anything. A good cook is someone with a creative spirit. You can enter the Meditation on the Interdependence of All Phenomena through many [...]
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Wildlife Photography from East Africa.
Original article at Seishindo by Charlie Badenhop.
“Whoever… sees in illness a vital expression of the organism, will no longer see it as an enemy. In the moment I realize that the disease is a creation of the patient, it becomes for me the same sort of thing as his manner of walking, his mode of [...]
It was originally filmed in September 2004 by videographer David Budzinski and photographer Jason Schlosberg at a watering hole in Kruger National Park, South Africa. The video depicts an unfolding confrontation between a herd of Cape Buffalo, a small pride of lions, and a pair of crocodiles over a baby buffalo. The baby buffalo survives!
Battle [...]
From Nature News.
A pack of killer whales uses waves to knock seals off the ice.
They made large waves to wash the seal off the relative safety of the ice. Later the orca put the seal back on the ice and dislodged the seal a second time which suggested strongly they were training their young.
It is [...]