I came across gabbly while on 24-7media forum , and had to try it out on this blog. So there is a new chat feature on the site using gabbly. I have also added a chat link to the main navigation. The feature will be evaluated for a month, and if it get’s used regularly I will make it a permanent feature.
Open your mind, change your thought, with these zen stories from Renegade Zen:
Tea Master, Transience, Falling flowers, Maybe, Fleeing the tiger, Empty the cup, Gutei’s finger, Knowing fish, Steal the moon, Nature’s Beauty.
By moving yourself outside of what you would call normal or rational, you can see the world and yourself from a new perspective, thereby acheiving satori, or enlightenment, in the process.
– Renegade Zen
Volume :: by Nazarin Hamid :: about the picture
After judging the ebb and sway and general rythm of the waves, I found a spot, curved against the rocks along the breakwall where the waves were crashing regularly and the highest. It was a culmination of things.
– Nazarin Hamid
The word ‘Hariana’ occurs in a Sanskrit inscription dated 1328 AD kept in Delhi Museum which refers to this region as “The heaven on earth”
From Punjab, we head down south, to the state of Haryana: the cradle of Vedic and Hindu civilization. Historically, Haryana has seen a lot, from the glorious battles that took place in Panipat, to the composing of the Mahabharata and other ancient Vedic and Hindu scriptures and epics.
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A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
– George Bernard Shaw
Back when I was going to school at USU, three of my friends and I used to joke around about forming the first Indian bobsled team, for the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympics. That memory was the inspiration for today’s topic, “Speed�, on Illustration Friday.
Every morning I wake up with a smile (except for the first few times I hit my snooze button) and every night I go to bed with a smile. This is regardless of what happens during the hours that I’m awake and independent of what day it is.
Worrying is a complete waste of time. Getting mad is also a big waste of time. I’ve been NOT wasting time for the past 8 years now.
You might argue that worrying and getting mad are natural human tendencies, but they are actually social influences that we’ve grown up with. Things happen all the time. Its the way we respond to them that truly identifies who we are. The more calm you are, the more likely that you will be able to make a rational decision towards anything in your life.
“Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or discover something that is true.”
– William Inge
Freedom, all of us want it, it’s protected once we think we have it, and it’s marketed to others who don’t have it, but are we truly free? What is true freedom? What would it take to achieve true freedom? What are the consequences of true freedom for us? What is the relationship between Dharma and true freedom? These are some of the questions we are going address in this two part series.
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Here is todays posting to Illustration Friday and the theme is: Spring. I had the sun, a lotus, and a plant sprouting in mind when I created this, took about ten minutes.
