Saturday, April 07, 2007

YogaJournal.com: Karma: Facing our Destiny with Free Will

kiachu has sent you this article from YogaJournal.com courtesy of Yoga Journal Magazine.

Article:
Karma: Facing our Destiny with Free Will, By Dr. Swami Shankardev Saraswati and Jayne Stevenson

Summary:
Karma is one of the most basic concepts at the heart of Indian philosophy. When we combine an understanding of karma with yogic practice, we can consciously and quickly journey toward enlightened living and higher consciousness.

URL:

http://www.yogajournal.com/teacher/1562_1.cfm

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Spring arrives in my Life today


Wisps of clouds like wings of birds are streaming across my sky.
The earth is coming alive with vibrations of growth all around me.
The feel of the branches in my hands is warm and soft.
It has been a long time waiting for these energies to return.
Waiting for winter to end.
by: Kiachu shen Ku

Friday, March 16, 2007

3-16-2007 Quote for today

There simply is nothing, to which we can attach ourselves, no matter how hard we try.

In time, things will change and the conditions that produced the desires will be gone.
Why then cling to them now?

Ven. Hsing Yun

Monday, February 26, 2007

Quote for today 2-27-2007

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear...but around in awareness.
- James Thurber

Sunday, February 18, 2007

Quote of today - Feb 18, 2007

The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.
~William Shakespeare

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

The Art of Peace

The real way of the warrior is based on compassion, wisdom, fearlessness, and love of nature.

Sunday, October 29, 2006

Quote for today - 10-29-2006

Style or posture does not matter, its Energetics and Intent that is Tai Chi.
If were not careful, all the rest is either a nice therapeutic dance, or just fists and feet.

~Kiachu

Sunday, October 15, 2006

10-15-2006 Quote for today

Learning to interpret and use what you receive is something most us need to learn how to do. ~Kiachu

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Quote for today - 9-21-2006

TO PENETRATE THE MYSTERIES, to bless with a good conscious, to be great and yet empty, to return to stillness and be forgiving, to be compassionate and to deliver all people, to do good deeds and help people reach the other shore - these are the great benefits of our Path of cultivation. To calm people in stormy times, to help them understand the nature of things, to maintain purity, to nourish all things, to respect all life, and to answer the needs of those whose beliefs come from the heart - these are the services the Order can offer.
- from a Chinese Stelae, 781 A.D.

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Quote for today - September 12, 2006

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
~Peter De Vries

Thursday, June 22, 2006

The Man and the Sandpiper

Once there was a man who wished to find the way to attain his goals. So he prayed to the Almighty for help.
That night the man had a dream in which he was a little sandpiper on a wave-swept shore. As he stepped nimbly in and out with the wave tips, his sandpiper heart beat with a happy wisdom that his human mind had never known.
When the man awoke, he sought out the seashore to study the sandpiper. Returning to his life, he experienced increasing happiness and success.
On occasion the man would return to the seashore to study under the inspiration of the long-legged little sandpiper. Eventually his quest touched upon inner aspects of being.
Gradually the man was imbued with spiritual presence. Compassion flowed from him. Things he touched flourished. And when he laid himself down for his final earthly sleep, his spirit, resembling a little, long-legged bird of purest light, rose in glory into the heavenly shining.

Friday, June 16, 2006

The obstacle is the path

Obstacles do not obstruct the path.
To cross them is to advance on the path.

Monday, June 12, 2006

Meditation

By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom.
By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.

Thursday, June 08, 2006

Meditation

He who treads the Path in earnest
Sees not the mistakes of the world;
If we find fault with others
We ourselves are also in the wrong.

Sunday, June 04, 2006

-Dhammapada, 188-192

They go to many a refuge,
to mountains, forests,
parks, trees, and shrines:

people threatened with danger.
That's not the secure refuge,
that's not the highest refuge,
that's not the refuge,

having gone to which,
you gain release
from all suffering and stress.

But when, having gone for refuge
to the Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha,
you see with right discernment
the four Noble Truths —

stress,
the cause of stress,
the transcending of stress,
and the Noble Eightfold Path,

the way to the stilling of stress:
That's the secure refuge,
that, the highest refuge,
that is the refuge,

having gone to which,
you gain release
from all suffering and stress.

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Poem - Mind

Mind is the master planner that molds and makes
And man is mind and forever more he takes,

The tools of thought and shaping what he wills
Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills

He thinks in secret and it comes to pass
His environment is but his looking glass!!!

James Allen

Saturday, May 20, 2006

The Genesis of Butterflies

Victor Hugo

The dawn is smiling on the dew that covers
The tearful roses; lo, the little lovers
That kiss the buds, and all the flutterings
In jasmine bloom, and privet, of white wings,
That go and come, and fly, and peep and hide,
With muffled music, murmured far and wide!
Ah, Spring time, when we think of all the lays
That dreamy lovers send to dreamy mays,
Of the fond hearts within a billet bound,
Of all the soft silk paper that pens wound,
The messages of love that mortals write
Filled with intoxication of delight,
Written in April, and before the May time
Shredded and flown, play things for the wind's play-time,
We dream that all white butterflies above,
Who seek through clouds or waters souls to love,
And leave their lady mistress in despair,
To flit to flowers, as kinder and more fair,
Are but torn love-letters, that through the skies
Flutter, and float, and change to Butterflies.

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

5-17-2006 Quote for today

Is a man's real possession his memory or his dreams?
Both can make him rich, both can make him poor.
-Kiachu Shen Ku

Monday, May 08, 2006

Poem - Letting Go

Author Unknown

To let go doesn't mean to stop caring;
It means I can't do it for someone else.
To let go is not to cut myself off...
It's the realization that I can't control another...
To let go is not to enable,
but to allow learning from natural consequences.
To let go is to admit powerlessness,
which means the outcome is not in my hands.
To let go is not to try and change or blame another,
I can only change myself.
To let go is not to care for, but to care about.
To let go is not to fix, but to be supportive.
To let go is not to judge,
but to allow another to be a human being.
To let go is not to be in the middle arranging all the outcomes,
but to allow others to affect their own outcomes.
To let go is not to be protective,
It is to permit another to face reality.
To let go is not to deny, but to accept.
To let go is not to nag, scold, or argue,
but to search out my own shortcomings and correct them.
To let go is not to adjust everything to my desires,
but to take each day as it comes and cherish the moment.
To let go is not to criticize and regulate anyone,
but to try to become what I dream I can be.
To let go is not to regret the past,
but to grow and live for the future.
To let go is to fear less and love more.

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

5-2-2006 Quote for today

A pebble tossed into the pond of life, provides ripples that come and go. Tossing in a pebble occasionally will provide a shimmer or two of enlightenment that may otherwise have been overlooked. As the ripples move outward, the influences of that pebble and our reaction and interpretations to them can expand our experiences and move energy to other areas of our experience.

Just as with the pond, each of us affect and can be affected by the energies of those around us, both those on the earth plane, and those in other dimensions.

Peace,
Kiachu Shen Ku