For who ? For ourselves. Did we do something, some ritual that affirmed our faith today ? In what ? In ourselves. Our ability to connect with our inner selves. For if we do not, who is this person that is working, loving, talking etc. It’s certainly not you.
It’s an everyday search for me. For that something that can put me in touch with myself. My connection to consciousness. My connection to loving nature.
Of course many people have faith. Which is a wonderful ability. I don’t have blind faith. I am more of a searcher. Questioner. Good, bad ? I don’t know. No value judgements on any faith or the question of faith. Or on myself.
Some people do it with meditation first thing in the morning. I have never been able to do that. I have to connect to something, however small, however little, to loose my sense of individuality. That’s the daily struggle. Against my own exaggarated sense of myself. I am so used to it. I have relied on it for so many years. So tough to let go now. Not that I have never questioned it before. But now, it is really important for me to be truly ‘active’ rather than ‘reactive’, which is what I have done most of my life. And how do I know what that ‘true’ action is ? Unless I am constantly in touch with something larger, more immense, more universal than myself ?
Yes I know. By letting go. By allowing yourself not to be addicted to the result of your action. By allowing chaos to invade your life. Yes, I agree. All of that. I do allow chaos to prevade in my life. I am impeteous (spelling). But then the individual in me fights back hard.
It’s an everyday battle. This battle to let go of one’s addiction to one’s sense of individuality.
Yet, the smallest of things can provoke the sensing of my flowing into something much much larger. Something infinite.
This morning it was my 5 year old daughter waking me up with a loud ‘Peekaboo’ and the tinkling of an early morning laugh.
Sometimes it;s just getting up early enough to watch the first shades of dark blue brush across the sky. Something deeply stirring about that.
Sometimes it’s unexpected gestures of affection that were not sought. Or given so instinctually that you were not aware of them.
Sometimes, it’s writing a poem. But only if the words are coming from somewhere else. As if something is flowing through you, a river of emotion you can physically feel that flows through your being.
But it is always so unexpected. So much that I am constantly aware now. My senses hightened. Waiting for that unexpected moment.
When something deeper will reach out and engulf me, and give my life, and all my actions, however small, a deeper and all encompassing context. On a daily basis.
So say a prayer for me. And for yourself.
Shekhar
praying
thinking about what thoughts are directed in the stream of intentions
are they connecting with an energy source that takes them to a processing center
and the collective energies there are what sends the intentions to their destinations
and they are carried out
but plays out not in a way that was originally intentioned?
hmm
it’s confusing
some wearing masks
others not
both think they are right
both have findings to support their view
except
one is exercising safety
the other is exercising their right to choose
would you choose your right to choose over being safe?
aum
grace
patience
space
awareness
kind
wellness
balance
wisdom
courage
strength
fate
trust
love
aum
Shinrin Yoku
time to bathe
aum
Sending Loving prayers to my sister, Carol,
for healing and recovery of her injuries, and good health to continue blossoming in her Being and Body. Peace and Blessings, Always Forever, I love you
your Sister
aum shanti shanti shanti aum
a prayer for
my daughter and son,
they are healthy Beings, and have the means and abilities to journey on with love, presence, awareness, balance, strength, courage, compassion, understanding, and a sense of humour…
aum
“So say a prayer for me. And for yourself.
Shekhar”
Sending love and prayers for you and for all of the world and it’s life forces,
aum shanti shanti shanti aum
yes, we said a prayer today, and on most days,
sometimes consciously
and other times
not
the heartsoul moves in mysterious ways
aum
Hare Krishna Hare Rama Hare Bhagavadgita
aum
A prayer for SPBalasubrahmanyam
healing, and recovery
aum shanti aum
love
aum
thank you for helping me to help myself
aum
Sending receiving
same?
direction is the difference, perhaps
a prayer offering,
dear all
you’d already know what i’m about to say because you are All
but me saying it is for me to say even though you are All
still, i offer this prayer of intention and purposefully placed thoughts
because
i love you
i thank you
for All
aum
patience
calm
breathing
reflection
awareness
balance
presence
aum
this grain of sand
which i am smaller
unseen
as all of existence and more
i have seen you walking along the roadway
hand out asking for some change
your asking is an opportunity for me to visit myself and see how i would respond
loong da dee
da doong da doo da
Celebrating peace of mind,
today, and most days
consciously and otherwise
deep gratitude
aum
atonement
attunement
non-attachment
lament
repent
repeat
recycle
reincarnate
revive
replenish
radiate
radical
reciprocate
return
receive
rest
rotate
regift
aum
or
just…be 🙂
Vastra Alankara for Sri Bayalu Anjaneya Swamy at Avadhoota Datta Peetham, Mysuru
One who holds a job with huge responsibilities
also holds a place of immense influence and shaping the contours of what becomes visible,
audible, felt, impacts and effects on the mind heart and soul of billions of people.
When such a position lands in the lap of One who has such openness and creative juices,
the world will be a better place,
for what holds true of this being will emerge through this portal,
simple, natural, free, playful, humble, integral,
a quantum leap
God’s speed
aum
Life matters, in all forms on all levels, we do exist as an intercollaboration of energies and spirited kinship, and with this understanding, the importance reveals itself with the realization through education, wisdom, sharing, knowledge, care, love for this earth it’s creatures and all that is visible and invisible to our senses.
aum
a prayer for praying
where intention meets its place of manifestation
aum
Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh
Thay
aum shanti aum
feeling
breathing in , i’m breathing in
breathing out, i’m breathing out
ahhhh hmmm ahhhh hmmm
paying attention to paying attention
paying attention to not paying attention
so still paying attention
there is no magic
there is
and an explanation for all there is
it’s just we know next to nothing about anything
and the language needed to understand what is happening is perhaps not yet known
energy talking to energy
a constant conversation of creation
whether it is creating life as we view it
or death as we see it
energy moving from one to the other
aum
rules given
rules not followed are met with charges, fines, isolation, quarantine
yet
same rules cannot be held by the ones who implement it
Self: where does the mind go to find sanity when insanity is leading the way?
Dear Insanity,
What would you really like for me to do?
follow the rules or follow what makes sense?
Insanity: If you follow me, that’s where you’ll be
9 symbols to remind us about our own potentials
aum Navaratri aum
what’s in a name?
who is behind the sound construed to emerge with grace or fire?
how does it come to be, by flow glow conflict disagreement
when a decision is made and the sound lands from the mouths of those who utter it
why this name, did the name come with a journey on a path awaiting?
rephrasing that which was first said by others who are thought to be wise, genius, learned, seers, sages, and so on, concepts have changed, ideas have evolved, and so it would befit our current times to give some of the notable phrases an upgrade, as we do with artificial intelligence, so with ancestral intelligence 🙂
For example:
“To be or not to be” (Shakespeare)
~ To be and not to be
“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” (Einstein)
~Try not to become a person of success, rather, become a person of value
“An unexamined life is not worth living.” (Socrates)
~An unexamined life awaits your curiosity and wonder
“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals” (Benjamin Franklin)
~Who loves themselves will have no rivals
“Love is a serious mental disease.” (Plato)
~Love is what you learned to be love
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy” (Dalai Lama)
~The purpose of our lives is to be defined by our own internal compass
“We must help the child act for himself, will for himself, think for himself, this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit” (Maria Montessori)
~We can help children to self regulate, using self will and intuition, this is the art of honouring the spirit
it was there all along
aum
Celebrating Chan ‘Zen’ my Mama
she would’ve been 84 today, October 29.
She shared unconditional love with me
I felt it, no doubt
I look at my hands and see my Mother’s hands, her face in my face,
and a love for humanity
Aum Shanti Shanti Shanti to my Mama
Chan Rojie Mary Sankar Raymond
Always forever, I love you
your baby
for us, the one, the i me we you they them
1 soul
aum shanti aum
a paper trail can be left to later on be looked at
a computer image can be deleted and still hidden somewhere for some to see
a thought remains hidden in the mind until released
a prayer has the potential to surpass most things, invisibly and indivisibly
aum
someone’s dream?
The Third Boat Ride
There are some people on the 2nd floor of a paddle boat, a sister, brother, mother and Guru. The Guru has passed on, laying in a half open reddish wooden casket. Brother is standing at the head side, sister towards the middle and mother at the feet side. Guru’s eyes open, sister is no longer there, mother is startled and jumps back for a second and returns, brother is still standing near where the Guru has now lifted his head up and started speaking.
The Guru says, he died and went to a place where he saw God, there is a God he said. God said all the religions here are wrong and there is one right religion, in the place where the Guru saw God, and named it. The Guru went on to say some more about what was communicated to him by God, and when he was done, he lay back down and closed his eyes again.
aum
remembering all who died to help protect country and peace
aum
An offering of love and prayers to my child, Anjalee,
peace of mind, strength and courage to stand up for what is just kind caring and respectful, self wellness and safety, a continued sense of the playful natural ways you were born with and following your own inner compass.
I hope to serve as an example by doing the same:-)
I love you always forever my Babygirl, Happy 32nd Birthday!
Mom
aum
gliding guiding light, casting shadows along the way
that we may see the natural flow of nature and the universe unfolding as it is
Honouring Diwali
aum
your eyes
one of them speak of wisdom conviction awareness creativity
the other calls to mystery enchantment vulnerability
together they summon love magic joy pain ancestry
your eyes your path written of its travels
?as celebrations swirl around the Sun and tributes are bestowed?
here is where one of those cornerstones laid its foundation
by the grace of faith and trust, thank you, pranams, gratitude from the soul?
one flying in the new technology winds as a flag of thoughts prayers offerings observation celebrations, smiling weeping and floods of emotions and feelings ?
stirring in the vessel of creation longing curiosity patience and hurriedness
silence and sounding, dancing in the breezes of quartz and quantum?
emerged from one simple question, fifteen years ago, this month ?
“So did we say a prayer today?”
~Shekhar Kapur
? aum shanti aum ?
being true to self
who is this self?
what is this self?
are we in search of unknown?
is the search the known of the unknown?
rain
snow
heat
winds
dry
humid
cold
warm
hot
cloudy
sunny
night
day
all a part of our natural earth
too much of any of these could impact on our physical and mental being
your
radiance
creative
freewill
outside of the sphere thinker
inner voice speaks, hears, listens, guides, wise
here and not here
everywhere
all at once a glance, a touch, a flare, a breeze
heard from distances now
celebrating your mother with deep gratitude?
From your first birthday
to all the other ones to come,
nearing 75 swirls around the Sun?
Shekhar Kapur, pranams Sir, you are a gift to this world ?
Much love and Blessings to you on your journey?
aum
Angela
My Prayer
I pray for my heart
So that it may be
Grateful.
I pray for my eyes
May I see the
Unseen.
I pray for my ears
To God’s song
May I listen.
I pray for my soul
That I become more aware.
I pray for my friends
May I love them more
Deeply.
I pray for strangers
May they soon become friends.
I pray for the world
May we live in peace as
One nation.
And I pray in gratitude
God,
Thank you,
For the love that you send.
Invocation
Gratitude is the greatest of all prayers. Thank you.
by Eric P McCarty
Celebration of Spirit
2001
A prayer for my Son,
may he be well and safe on his journey,
aum shanti shanti shanti aum
love
blessings
the means by which we obtain a thing may very well be connected to how it will present itself to be endured
aum
Celebrating the presence of a man who’s story evolved over centuries by those who were not there to watch what actually unfolded and what message he meant for humanity, if it were to take a simple expression, perhaps, kindness, love, understanding, patience, peace, and treat others as you’d like them to treat you, sounds reasonable. Happy Birthday Jesus??
Memories are stored somewhere
accessing them is what the brain does
when we forget, it may be because the road to the memory is blocked or under repairs
ask the brain to find another route to the information in which you seek
it could be a matter of getting to a place via detours, like when a construction site prevents traffic from gong though, we go around another way to get to where we want to go
hmmm….