Dear, how do I describe this place to you, this healing womb of nature, this early morning breeze, the warmth that surrounds me right now? This scene so simple, so mundane and yet it looks so surreal. I indulged myself to a hot cup of jasmine tea while admiring the beauty ahead of me. In no time the crowd began to gather in the streets below, transforming into this colorful marketplace. It was a busy day filled with people buying and selling goods, children running around happily. Suddenly I felt the need to close my eyes and immerse myself completely in the feeling that was manifesting within. Its as if everything around me feels so alive. Strangely somehow my tormented mind found peace in this noise. I realized then how dead I felt in the concrete city, it felt like living in a giant box. However, now it feels as if I've cut threads with everything else that was pulling me down before. It feels like I can just sit here and watch people pass by the whole da...
RAIN. The pitter-patter of the rain outside of my room is so refreshing. It is astounding to note the sudden transition of the environment from something more accustomed to a moment so aesthetic. The mere sound of the raindrops continually colliding and collapsing in the grounds lifts up the heaviness in the air, pulls you to the world interlaced by your imaginations , weaved in by the threads of ethereal fantasies...indulging you in the realm of endless possibilities, plotting your own story adorned with the cherished moments of your life. A world inundated with the adventures you desperately need and strive for. I am left dazzled by how the rain always succeeds in enriching our senses and feeding your soul... A piece of soft music slowly filling the chamber and everyone engrossed in the beauty of this very moment, bewitched by the sublime melody so eloquently played, blending in with the scathing aroma- blistering from the burning incense, paralyzes your senses....
W hen I was little, at every dawn I felt this shift in the atmosphere as if my room had transported into a different dimension, I felt this raw energy rushing in making me all jittery. It was the time of the day I looked forward to the most but it felt so fleeting and wasteful. Therefore to make the most out of it, every day after coming home from school, I would clean my room, burn some incense, and paint. Although I was a crappy painter, I loved to focus my brush into the canvas, it felt as if I am tapping into a different vibration, a distant memory, something I still, to this day, have a hard time understanding. It would calm my mind and I enjoyed it. However, with this everyday ritual, I was attempting to experience something within me, which I never fully succeeded in. Thinking back, now I realize that it was my first attempt to meditate through my paintbrush. Eventually, I did replace the painting with meditation, well more of an attempt to meditate. When I gave t...
"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation" -khalil Gibran I t's easier to have a love affair with a cup of tea than with a real person. The ego that separates us as individuals is so strong that love cannot fully penetrate it. It is like a whiff of air, it comes and goes. Perhaps the idea that the tea will eventually merge into your body makes it simpler for love to flow. It becomes easier to find your reflection in the tea than in the other. It is when people leave, or become distant that the fog clears and all the separation dissolves, you find the senselessness in your arguments, great understanding happens. And as they come closer, the clarity dissolves and we continue the never ending drama.
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