Imagine strolling through a field full of wild flowers. the soft, warm wind is blowing gently through your hair and your senses are taken over with the scents and vivid colours of the flowers around you. Bees and butterflies are everywhere you look and there is no sound but their buzzing, not a cloud in … Continue reading Beauty
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Absolute Truth
There is an ancient Indian parable regarding a group of blind men, none of which has ever come across an elephant before. They are each presented with a different aspect of a real elephant to touch and discover. One holds its trunk believing it to be like a snake. Another feels its legs, announcing it … Continue reading Absolute Truth
Illumination
Imagine being a in pitch black room, of which you have no comprehension of its size or contents, or even if there are other people present. Then imagine you have a candle, and with this small light you are able to see pockets of what the room contains. As you move around, you light up … Continue reading Illumination
Seeing
When someone covers our eyes with their hand, but we still have our eyes open, we can see their hand. When we close our eyes our mind is telling us we can no longer see, as we have our eyes shut, yet if we concentrate we can see the inside of our eyelids and whatever … Continue reading Seeing
Zen musings 