Looking for a structure is linked up with a search for the spiritual teacher. I am looking. Or waiting. Another thing which was a barrier on my way of accepting the spiritual nature of my search is my association of the word “spiritual” with all sorts of creepy sects, people with mental problems, dancing and […]
Looking for the spiritual structure
And so, I am looking. It is Wednesday. I feel as some resistance in me is gradually lifting up. I think I allow the destiny to take it course and allow myself to believe, that that course will be the most exciting, happy and beneficial for me and all my people. Now I can see the […]
White Shaman
21 April 2009 Last weekend I attended an interesting event. A talk on Friday and a one-to-one session on divination on Sunday, given by a Sangoma (Shaman) John Lockley from South Africa. This is his website: http://www.african-shaman.com During the talk, John told us about himself and his path to becoming a sangoma. He had prophetic […]
Flow
Where tension goes – energy flows. That was given to me as a common knowledge, but I’ve never heard it before. Sometimes you need most obvious ideas to be formulated for you in order to see them.
From Poetry Chaikhana
Story / Koan: Tipping Over a Vase Posted: 16 Apr 2009 09:34 AM PDT Koans are riddle-like sayings or short tales used in Zen practice to startle the listener out of the linear mind and into open awareness… Two of the most famous collections of Zen koans are The Gateless Gate and The Blue Cliff […]
What we are tying to do – the new parents – is to raise a new breed of children, who can see beyond the differences, who are not burdened with the formulas, who know the true value of the words.We are trying to discover new values for us to live by, and to pass them […]
“If” by R. Kipling
I found this poem and couldn’t not to post it here! If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by […]
about portraiture…
I love portraiture, and I can list many reasons why people should have their portraits painted. It is unfortunate that there is a stigma of vanity attached to commissioning a portrait of oneself, or even of one’s family or friends. Sure, it involves time and money (and other more intangible things) to create a portrait. […]
I dreamt of a sculpture…
The last episode of my dreams today was the one with a sculpture… I had someone telling me, that he sow a very interesting sculpture, “go, and see!” Explained where it was, somewhere in a public indoors area. I went. It wasn’t a museum or gallery, so people around were not paying attention specifically to […]
Being trapted in one’s body…
In my 20-es I didn’t remind myself much about it, because I was busy with things, I suppose. Nowadays I think about that experience rather regurlarly, trying to figure, if it was a kind of spiritual experience like some of the people get and talk about. What prompted me to those memories again is this: […]