December 2012
1 post
the temperance of things
everything is temporary- materials, people, relationships with others, time, our own lives. A human flaw is that we are creatures of emotion and get attached to certain things depending on our desires at the time, and that if they are lost or taken away, we feel immense suffering and resent. I think I must learn to not take anything personally and to be self-reliant so I won’t depend on...
July 2012
1 post
Epiphany--Self development and Love
Self development/Love… they seem to be two completely different ideas but I realize recently that you cannot have one without the other. I learn more about myself through love and love more through learning more about myself. They are intertwined. Perhaps that is why all scriptures, regardless of religion, identify “God”, the fully-developed embodiment of all things, as...
April 2012
4 posts
7:30 Go Train
The GO train can be so boring sometimes. People with their wooden faces, expressionless; reading, napping, whispering, or just staring out the windows. Try talking in a normal voice in the train and you automatically get stares and frowns… people should just chill out!
In the midst of all this, I thought of a story. It played out in my mind but I never wrote it down yet. I’ll try to...
Joyful Abandon: The Goddess and The God: The Last... →
lazyyogi:
There are many religions and spiritual paths that involve worship of the goddess, the god, or the duality of the goddess and the god. These systems have their own perspectives on what each deity and its respective gender represent.
In Tantra, the Goddess and the God represent the last…
the nature of dukkha
everything is temporal. my desire to be something or attain something; to not be something or to not attain something. the suffering that results from these desires would eventually end once i realize its impermanence, which might be unachievable or take a lifetime to achieve.
March 2012
0 posts
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February 2012
10 posts
Joyful Abandon: Emerging from False Refuge →
lazyyogi:
In tibetan buddhism, renunciation is best translated as “emergence from false refuge”. Now as you may know, when you commit to buddhism you also commit to taking refuge in The Three Treasures: the Buddha, the Dharma, the Sangha.
So what does it mean to take refuge in anything? What does…
It’s been a while since I’ve writtin in this blog. So many changes happening that I find it hard to catch up sometimes. This winter has not been so joyful. I’ve lost things I know I can never retrieve, whether through my fault or uncontrollable circumstances. I wanted to start all over again, right back to square one. Just when I was about to do so, I had a great conversation...
God works in such a mysterious, wonderful way. Each person, event, conversation, action influences how we choose to live our life, and depending on how we interpret each of these influences, we end up for better or worse. Trust and have faith in God’s guidance as a conscience to interpret something correctly.
trust yourself and you will know how to live, karen, you are created with what you need to know to know how to live, but u gotta trust that u are capable of making decisions and making your life the way you want it..and know that the universe and God backs u up
Thanks Valerie, you beautiful soul! <3
January 2012
26 posts
“Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”
– Rumi (via lazyyogi)
With the lifetime imprisonment of the Shafia family today for the crime of honour killing, a new precedent is set in Canada against such a heinous crime. It makes me proud to be living in a country that punishes those that carry such a harmful mentality and practice against women. The amount of media attention towards this crime raises awareness towards this issue and the fact that it sparked such...
” My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and talents, and I lay them both at his feet.”
Mahatma Gandhi
So true!! it is so humbling to realize that these two temporal experiences are part of the same entity, experienced by all people alike. A duality that depends on each other. We need failure to achieve success and success to overcome failure....
“Sometimes beautiful memories can come to an ugly end.
But ugly outcomes can...”
Oddity Central: Billion Euro Home Is Made from... →
odditycentrall:
Unemployed Irish artist, Frank Buckley, has built an entire apartment from the shredded remains of 1.4 billion euros he borrowed from the national mint. He says the Billion Euro Home is a monument to the madness the single currency brought to Ireland.
In 2002, when Ireland adopted the euro, a…
jumped on the Tumblr bandwagon. So much more fun =P
future kids, i have so much to tell you!
Spent a night with two great friends. Watched Big Bang and How I Met Your Mother. Went back to watching season 1 of HIMYM and found an episode that exactly reflected my situation in comedic form, and that made real life seem so funny now, like a sitcom. And yes Alyssa, I like your recommendation.We should really start jotting down what we need to tell our future kids….
As quoted by Alyssa,...
how strange it is.
How strange it is to be anything at all,
To be a part of creative design,
To be an entity of the universe.
To exist despite an infinite number of possibilities.
Simply being,
while I simply could have been not
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
something everyone needs.
Faith.
Faith is something everyone needs.
Faith in a higher power, an inner spiritual energy. God, The Creator, Buddha, Krishna, the Prophet… Whatever you call it. It has many names, but it is one and the same thing.
Education has filled my mind with knowledge of worldly things- the history of people, the discoveries of people, the interactions of people. All of them so humanistic. All...
Chinese New Year!!
Growing up, CNY is just another holiday to look forward to because of the red pockets. Traditionally, anyone not married is considered a child and would get them filled with money, and they’re supposed to bring good luck and fortune for the new year. Gradually, I realized that CNY is more than just the red pockets, but it is also about the importance of spending another new year with loved...
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I’ve let go. You have entered my life, taught me an important lesson, and consequently, shaped my future. There is a reason for you to be at a certain timeframe of my life, and once that reason is fulfilled, and there is nothing more we can gain from each other, I respect your choice to leave so you and I can move on and share our unique light to the world!
the necessary hardship of letting go.
One of my favourite novels— Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse, has the amazing ability to transform in meaning everytime I read it, and no matter what state or stage of life I’m in, it always speaks to me with the same message, but in different facets.
Today, I find myself revisiting that book again. Last time I read the book, I lost something, and the book helped me realize the temperance...
2011 in Review
2011 has been a tumultuous year of self-discovery, which can be reflected as both a fulfilling experience and a rude awakening. It is the year of transition from being a student to a working adult, which is frightening and exciting at the same time. It felt so weird to break out of the cyclical habits of learning for the past 21 years and being thrust into the world of work, where I noticed that...
