glenara's Blog

The idea arose from seeing other groups set up on EP to help individuals. As I have been involved in healing as part of my life for many years I am aware of the value of pooling resources and the powerfulness of loving kindness. So I invite you to partake in a Healing Circle here on EP. If you look on my profile page you will find the link in the experience section. You are welcome to join as a giver or a receiver or both.

Love to you all.

Just realised its a year since I joined EP and would like to thank you all for so much. Its been fun - so interesting to meet new friends and express aspects of my creativity which were stagnating like the poet and the story writer. To be able to give some support to others and also receive support. Thanks for being on EP, thanks for sharing and please feel free to send PMs if you want to converse with me privately.

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I love all the seasons, each has its special quality of new delights.

This March there are still snowdrops flowering in my garden.

Springtime - daffodils - a line from William Wordsworth's poem 'and lo behold a host of golden daffodils'

The freshness of yellow flowers, pale primroses, purple crocuses.

Birds building their nests.  Frogspawn in the pond.

Easter eggs in the shops. chocolate eggs with white and yellow cream yolks.

Walking in the warm rain, barefoot on the grass.

The promise of Summer to come.

Happy new year to you all - hope you've made a new year resolution - I love this time of year as beginning again is a very zen thing! ( that's mine by the way - to keep stepping into newness with delight)

Have had a very quiet time with lots of walking and sitting in meditation. Love the changeable weather and the challenge  of walking on ice - have found putting a pair of socks over my shoes helps keep me upright.  Had a fall straight down on my bottom the other day - the ground was so cold ice was like glass under the rain water - unusual for this part of the world.

Wishing you all a happy, healthy 2010 with lots of good luck and new friends.

glenara

A calm person, by virtue of his self-possession, is always at peace with others, always happy, always calm.

- by ----    Paramahansa Yogananda

.........An inspiration..........sometimes its difficult to be calm...... in this busy world

This quote reminds me .... the feeling, the memory of a calm state of being is an accessible device..... to return to.......

When the curious ask you what it is

Don't affirm or deny anything

Anything affirmed is not true

Anything denied is not true

How can someone say what it is

When he has not fully known it?

And, knowing what letters can be sent

from a land where words find no road to travel?

To their questions therefore offer silence.

Only silence and a pointing finger.

anonymous

A poem written by M.T. Slough, Berkshire found on BBC ceefax 14/10/09

Smiling is infectious, you catch it like flu.

When someone smiled at me today, I started smiling too.

I passed around a corner, and someone saw me grin.

When he smiled I realised, I'd passed it on to him.

I thought about that smile, Then realised its worth.

A single smile, just like mine, can travel round the Earth.

M.T.

 'A Warrior's Creed' by a Japanese Samurai...........

I have no parents:

I make heaven and earth my parents

I have no home:

In the depths of Hara I make my home.

I have no divine power:

I make integrity my divine power.

I have no means:

humility is my means.

I have no magic power:

internal force is my magic.

I have no life or death:

I make the tides of breathing my life and death.

.......................................

I have no body:

endurance is my body.

I have no eyes:

a flash of light and there are my eyes.

I have no ears:

sensitivity serves as my ears.

I have no limbs:

instantaneous movement:

there are my limbs.

I have no laws:

I make my own protection,

my law.

I have no strategy:

unshadowed by thought is my strategy.

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I have no purpose:

'seizing the opportunity' is my purpose.

I have no miracles:

I make right action my miracle.

I have no principle;

adaptability to all circumstances;

there is my principle.

I have no tactics:

I make emptiness

and fullness my tactics.

I have no talent:

I make quick mind my talent.

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I have no friend:

mind is my friend.

I have no enemy:

I make carelessness my enemy.

I have no armour:

I make benevolence and righteousness my armour.

I have no castle:

immovable mind is my castle.

I have no sword:

absence of self is my sword.

 (:..............................................fourteenth Century

Happiness cannot be found through great effort and will power,

but is already there in relaxation and letting go.

Don't strain yourself, there is nothing to do.

Whatever arises in mind has no importance at all,

Because it has no reality whatsoever.

Don't become attached to it.

Don't pass judgement.

Let the game happen on its own, springing up and falling back-

without anything changing- and all will vanish and reappear without end.

Only our searching for happiness prevents us from seeing it.

It is like a rainbow which you run after without ever catching it.

Although it does not exist,

It has always been there and accompanies you every instant.

don't believe in the reality of good or bad experiences - they are like rainbows.

Wanting to grasp the ungraspable, you exhaust yourself in vain.

As soon as you relax this grasping space is there - open, inviting and comfortable.

So, make use of it. All is yours already.

Don't search any further.

Don't go into the inextricable jungle looking for the elephant who is already quietly at home.

Nothing to do, nothing to force, nothing to want - and everything happens by itself.