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POEM - A.E. Housman (about trees!!)

Posted on Feb 1st, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping

Give me a land of boughs in leaf,
A land of trees that stand;
Where trees are fallen there is grief;
I love no leafless land."
-  A.E. Housman

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GRATITUDE PRAYER to our oceans

Posted on Feb 2nd, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping
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HOW can we infuse the earth with love and gratitude?
To begin with, I think that we need to practice.
We need to create habits and new ways of thinking, until the resonance of love and gratitude comes streaming out from our whole being

One way that perhaps all of us can practice is to give expression to words of love and gratitude

For example, when we are walking on the earth, we can think or say things like
"Thank you, dear Earth! I am so grateful to you for supporting my footsteps!"
While we are washing, we can think or say "Dear water, how wonderful you are!  How refreshed you make me feel!  Without you, how could I even live?"

As we keep thinking and speaking in this way, harmonious energy will come to permeate our existence and spread to everything in our environment, reawakening nature's power to heal itself.


Gratitude to the ocean

On behalf of humanity, we thank you, divinities who govern the ocean.
We thank you, dear ocean.  Our lives are sustained by you from day to day.
We thank you from our hearts for your limitless blessings.
We thank you for your infinitely flowing waves,
that resonate the will of the universe.
Dear ocean, let us be one with you again.

May Peace Prevail on Earth

We thank you, divinities who govern the ocean


text from the booklet "Gratitude to Nature"
Byakko Shinko Kai

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POEM - UNITY - Tagore

Posted on Feb 2nd, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping

 

 

Poems - Unity

 

 

The significance which is in

unity

 is an eternal wonder.

 

 

~

 

 

We try to realise the essential unity of the world
with the conscious soul of man;

we learn to perceive the unity held together
by the one Eternal Spirit,whose power creates the earth,
the sky, and the stars,

and at the same time irradiates our minds with
the light of a consciousness

that moves and exits in unbroken continuity with the outer world.

 

 

- Tagore

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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH - Daffodils

Posted on Feb 3rd, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping




I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee;
A poet could not be but gay,
In such a jocund company!
I gazed-and gazed-but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

William Wordsworth


while out walking at the weekend I saw a clump of daffodils, no flowers as yet, but it was a sign spring is coming....

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WHEN YOU SAY YOU LOVE ME - LYRICS

Posted on Feb 4th, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping
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When You Say You Love Me

Like the sound of silence calling
I hear your voice and suddenly I'm falling
Lost in a dream
Like the echoes of our souls are meeting
You say those words, my heart stops beating
I wonder what it means
What could it be that comes over me
At times I can't move
At times I can hardly breathe

When you say you love me
The world goes still, so still inside and
When you say you love me
For a moment, there's no one else alive

You're the one I've always thought of
I don't know how, but I feel sheltered in your love
You're where I belong
And when you're with me, if I close my eyes
There are times I swear I feel like I can fly
For a moment in time
Somewhere between the heavens and earth
Frozen in time
Oh, when you say those words

When you say you love me
The world goes still, so still inside and
When you say you love me
For a moment, there's no one else alive

And this journey that we're on
How far we've come and I
Celebrate every moment
And when you say you love me
That's all you have to say
I'll always feel this way

When you say you love me
The world goes still, so still inside and
When you say you love me
In that moment, I know why I'm alive
When you say you love me
When you say you love me
Do you know how I love you?



jOSH GROBAN

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ZEN POEM - Dogen

Posted on Feb 4th, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping
 
To what shall
       I liken the world?
       Moonlight, reflected
       In dewdrops.
       Shaken from a crane's bill.

                    -    Dogen, 1200 - 1253
                        
The Zen Poetry of Dogen
                         Translated by Steven Heine
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SUFI POEM - YUNUS EMRE

Posted on Feb 5th, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping

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I'VE COME HERE TO DEPART

I haven't come here to settle down.
I've come here to depart.
I am a merchant with lots of goods,
selling to whoever will buy.
I didn't come to create any problems,
I'm only here to love.
A Heart makes a good home for the Friend.
I've come to build some hearts.
I'm a little drunk from this Friendship-
Any lover would know the shape I'm in.
I've come to exchange my twoness,
to dissapear in One.
He is my teacher. I am His servant.
I am a nightingale in His garden.
I've come to the Teacher's garden
to be happy and die singing.
They say "Souls which know each other here,
know each other there."
I've come to know a Teacher
and to show myself as I am.

 


 

 Translated from the Turkish by Kabir Helminski and Refik Algan

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POEM - Empty Spaces

Posted on Feb 5th, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping
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Empty spaces
 
Car space, black with unforgotten snow
muffled engines zoom along timelessly
snow parched highways, squelch under tyres
white dreams of summer ring in my ears
quietness startles my hand to write and mark
winter's realm of chilly sunlight and muted
sounds and inner contemplation
 
Tai
Jan 09

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LAO TZU - TAO TE CHING - Water

Posted on Feb 6th, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping



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"Water flows humbly to the lowest level. Nothing is weaker than water, Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong, Nothing surpasses it."
By: Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching


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HAIKU - BEAUTY

Posted on Feb 6th, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping
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immersed in beauty
I see your pink petalled skirts
float gracefully by

Feb 09
Tai
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LOVE - Kahlil Gibran

Posted on Feb 7th, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Kahlil Gibran
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HAIKU - "this moment"

Posted on Feb 7th, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping
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blue light filled flower
your perfume is glorious
in the springtime sun

I open to you
this moment is beauty filled
I rest in your shade

Feb 09
Tai


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PLATONIC SOLIDS and the elements (smokey quartz)

Posted on Feb 8th, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping


In geometry, a Platonic solid is a convex regular polyhedron. These are the three-dimensional analogs of the convex regular polygons. There are precisely five such figures (shown below). They are unique in that the faces, edges and angles are all congruent.

The Five Convex Regular Polyhedra (Platonic solids)
TetrahedronHexahedron
or Cube
OctahedronDodecahedronIcosahedron

Tetrahedron - element - Fire
                         chakra - solar plexus
                         colour - red (hot and dry)
                         relates to creation/manifestation
                          4 sides

Hexahedron - element - earth
(cube)              chakra - base
                         colour - green (cold and dry)
                          grounding, creation "strength"
                          6 sides

Octadedron - element - Air
                         chakra - Heart
                         colour - yellow (hot and wet)
                          8 paths to enlightenment
                          8 sides

Dodecahedron -
                         element - ether/spirit
                          The senses - skin
                         colour - Gold
                         12 faces of the divine within
                         used for ascension and finding the divine
                          12 sides

Icosahedron -
                        element - water
                         chakra - sacral
                         colour - blue (cold/wet)
                          conscious prayer/transformation
                           20 sides





                        
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FRIENDSHIP - cats and kittens

Posted on Feb 9th, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping
"A friend is someone who knows the song of your soul and sings it back to you when you've forgotten the words." ~ Friendship Quotefriends.jpg friends image by bakenokawa

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LOVE QUOTES - picture - Arwen and Aragorn

Posted on Feb 10th, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping

"Soul meets soul on lover's lips"
 Percy Bysshe Shelly

"Other men said they have seen angels,
But I have seen thee"
G. Moore

"What lies behind us, and what lies before us are
tiny matters, compared to what lies within us"
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When you love someone, all your saved up wishes
start coming out"
Elizabeth Bowen


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SEAHORSES - BEAUTIFUL

Posted on Feb 10th, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping
The beautiful colored seahorses belong to the most magnificent and most remarkable organisms of the seas. Actually a seahorse is quite normal fish, coming along only in a very special dress. There are about 35 different species of seahorses spread all over the world, but only a small spectrum of this variety is frequently imported for aquarist purposes.

Seahorses � Classification
Seahorses are vertebrate fish. Technically, their taxanomic classification is the Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Chordata, Sub-phylum Vertebrata, Class Osteichthyes and Order Perciformes. They belong to the family Syngnathidae (syn - together or with [Greek] and gnathos - jaw [Greek]) that includes seadragons, pipefishes and pipehorses. Seahorses make up the genus Hippocampus (hippo - horse [Greek] and campos - sea animal [Greek]).

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INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES ON LIVING YOUR DREAMS

Posted on Feb 11th, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping

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Inspirational Quotes on Dreams

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look at the world straight in the eye.
Helen Keller

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Robert F. Kennedy

Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask.
X Files

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.
Marsha Norman

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
Edgar Cayce

A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.
Eric Fromm

For a dreamer, night's the only time of day.
Newsies

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Zadok Rabinwitz

All poetic inspiration is but dream interpretation.
Hans Sachs

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LOVE POEM - BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Posted on Feb 12th, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping

 
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The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the Ocean
The Winds of Heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine?

See the mountains kiss high Heaven
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it distained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth
And the moonbeams kiss the sea;
What is all this sweet work worth
If thou kiss not me?

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I REMEMBER A HUNDRED LOVELY LAKES.....

Posted on Feb 13th, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping
I remember a hundred lovely lakes,
and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir
and cedar and poplar trees.
The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk,
opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
It has given me blessed release from care and worry
and the troubled thinking of our modern day.
It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
Whenever the pressure of our complex city life
thins my blood and benumbs my brain,
I seek relief in the trail;
and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn,
my cares fall from me
- I am happy.
~ Hamlin Garland - McClure's, February 1899 ~

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FENG SHUI AND LOVE

Posted on Feb 13th, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping
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  • Does your bed have balanced feng shui energy on both sides? In a love relationship the bed is used by both partners. For a love relationship to work long term, both partners have to feel equal, respected, and treated well. Feng Shui Love Tip: Treat both sides of the bed in a feng shui balanced way, in other words, treat them equally.

  • Is there any free space in your closets? A closet that has some breathing room and a free flow of feng shui energy is not only promoting better health and more opportunities, but also, on a practical level, allows your loved one to store his or her items. Plain common sense here!

  • Check if the all-important feng shui home trinity - bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen - is treated well. Use smart feng shui tips to help you improve it.

  • Can you clearly visualize your life with the man or the woman of your dreams? How would that look, feel, taste, smell? Bring that sense into your home with specific images, feng shui colors, use scents (preferably pure essential oils) that reflect the energy you want. Feng Shui Love Tip: Avoid sad, broken heart images if you want to attract a happy love relationship.

  • After the feng shui basics above, you can try more advanced feng shui, such as:
    • Be sure to properly treat the feng shui energy of the Southwest area area of your space. The feng shui element to nurture here is Earth, so you will bring items, colors, and images that strengthen either the Earth or the Fire feng shui elements, and avoid too much Water, Wood or Metal feng shui elements.

    • Apply love-specific feng shui cures, such as objects in two, rose quartz crystals, etc.
    To maintain a harmonious, joyful love relationship, you need a bedroom that is comfortable and reflects the beauty of the love relationship you want to be in.

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    BUTTERFLY QUOTES

    Posted on Feb 14th, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping
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    "How does one become a butterfly?" she asked pensively. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."
    ~Trina Paulus


    "we delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."
    ~Maya Angelou


    Just like the butterfly, I too will awaken in my own time.
    ~Deborah Chaskin



    What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the
    master calls a butterfly
    Richard Bach




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    FADEN QUARTZ -

    Posted on Feb 15th, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping
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    Faden Quartz is known by the "string" or "thread" that is seen perpendicular to the growth of the crystal. From Love is In The Earth: The Faden crystal is one of connection, stimulation and furthering connective forces between the self and that which is chosen as the recipient. It is also a stone for the exploration of the parallel dimensions of ones reality. It strengthens the "silver cord" and produces an energy which both promotes and protects one during flight. This crystal facilitates the attunement between the self and another, similar to the action produced by the Herkimer Diamond. It assists in producing and maintaining the ethereal connection which one has with another (on any planes, in all dimensions)
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    MOTHER EARTH SONG

    Posted on Feb 16th, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping


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    Mother earth is my home
    Here I am free to roam
    Into smoke and firelight
    I am safe all this night
    Heya heya heya ho
    Galalacti Wardo
    heya heya heyo ho
    Galalacti wardo

    Mother earth hear my song
    Give me peace for which I long
    Into smoke and firelight
    I am safe all through the night
    Heya heya heya ho
    Galalacti Wardo
    heya heya heya ho
    Galalacti wardo

    Song from a workshop my friend attended
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    FOR THE LOVE...

    Posted on Feb 17th, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping
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    Love melts through
    all boundaries
    It links each of us
    through the heart
    It is the sunshine
    on a freezing winter's day
    It is hope for all
    lost souls

    Love is everything....
    The moon
    The stars
    The sun
    The planets
    The oceans
    The mountains
    The forests
    The rivers
    The animals
    The plants
    The fish
    The flowers
    US
    everything
    It just
    is!

    Feb 09
    Tai

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    WALK IN BALANCE ......

    Posted on Feb 18th, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping
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    We must learn to walk in balance
    sacred steps to take
    Weaving peace and understanding
    through all that we create
    A tapestry of love and light
    finest threads of gold
    Sacred flame ever burning bright
    through all that we behold

    When we learn to walk in balance
    the healing will take place
    The healing of this Earth, our mother
    the healing of the human race
    A tapestry of love and light
    finest threads of gold
    Sacred flame ever burning bright
    through all that we behold

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    POEM - JADE IS THE NIGHT

    Posted on Feb 19th, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping




    Multiple layers of velvety night
    Twinkling stars that shine so bright
    Portals of time, ever changing, in-line
    Diagonal, vertical, horizontal, betwixt and
    between time's effervescent shine

    Layers of truth, so burgundy pink
    Layers of reality, giving us time to think
    Darkness surrounds
    Black Jade is the night
    Moonstone stars twinkle so bright

    Andromeda Galaxy
    We've travelled so far
    Spinning around on our
    Blue-white star


    Feb 09
    Taikunping
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    ALL MY RELATIONS....

    Posted on Feb 20th, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping
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    All my relations
    I am one with you
    In all you teach me
    I give thanks to you
    With my heart
    I listen as I pray
    I know you are with me
    Guiding my way
    Four legged, winged ones
    Creatures great and small
    In humble honour
    I will stand tall
    Walking straight
    The path of harmony
    All my relations come
    "Walk with me"

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    A CELTIC BLESSING of Peace

    Posted on Feb 21st, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping
    Deep peace of the running wave to you.

    Deep peace of the flowing air to you.

    Deep peace of the quiet earth to you.

    Deep peace of the shining stars to you.

    Deep peace of the infinite peace to you.


    adapted from - ancient gaelic runes
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    A PRAYER OF SAINT FRANCIS

    Posted on Feb 22nd, 2009 by Taikunping : inner fire Taikunping

    A Prayer of Saint Francis


    Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace.

    Where there is hatred, let me sow love;

    Where there is injury, pardon;

    Where there is doubt, faith;

    Where there is despair, hope;

    Where there is darkness, light;

    Where there is sadness, joy.

    Oh Divine Master,

    Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console,

    To be understood as to understand,

    To be loved as to love.

    For it is in giving that we receive

    It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,

    It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

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