Zen Moments

“Reach out! Take a chance! Get hurt maybe. But play as well as you can…” MAUDE: Like a puff, Harold? HAROLD: Well, I really don’t smoke. MAUDE: It’s all right. It’s organic. HAROLD: I sure am picking up on vices. MAUDE: Vice? Virtue? It’s best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of [...]

“Having a child … can be an adventure all on its own…” When I realized that my life experiences are simply different and wonderful in their own way, I stopped feeling inferior due to wonderful stories of travel and adventure I hear from my childless friends. Having a child when you’re a still a child [...]

“Mooring on Chien-Te River” The boat rocks at anchor by the misty island Sunset, my loneliness comes again. In these vast wilds the sky arches down to the trees. In the clear river water, the moon draws near. Meng Hao-Jen Translation from the Chinese by Gary Snyder Photograph kindly contributed to Zen Moments by Sam [...]

“A tree, would be enough Or even a rock…” …A tree, would be enough Or even a rock, a small creek, A bark shred in a pool. Hill beyond hill, folded and twisted Tough trees crammed In thin stone fractures A huge moon on it all, is too much. The mind wanders… Excerpt from Piute [...]

“Hand in Hand – Beautiful Ballet Dancers” Li Ma was a beautiful promising professional ballerina when she lost her right arm in a car accident in 1996. She was only 19. Her handsome boy friend walked away from her. She tried to kill herself, only to be saved by her parents. Her love for her [...]

“…all I could think of was: life. the good and the bad.” More wonderful replies to the question: “What Inspires You?” from our Twitter and Facebook friends… DixieThorn: Hi! My Inspirations are: Nature, Art, Passion, & Random Acts of Kindness. knitfemme: What inspires me is new people coming into my life doing really interesting things! [...]

“I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty…” An exerpt from “The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron “…Writing about attention, I see that I have written a good deal about pain. This is no coincidence. It may be different for others, but pain is what it took to teach me to [...]

“I need a hundred years between each utterance… “ Deep in the mountains. I brought no camera, no sketchbook. Like this Buddha rupa beside its mossy stream, it is sufficient just to be here. I need a hundred years between each utterance- to clarify and settle thought- to make the plain poetic, and the poetic [...]

” … the sunrise this morning, the beauty of a new day “ Zen Moments asked our Twitter and Facebook friends: “What Beaty Can You See?” – and had these wonderful replies… Allison Doyle: An exquisite tree, covered in pink flowers…a blue, blue sky and sunshine…you? Zen Moments Dot Org: My beloved – and hopefully [...]

“The capacity of the human spirit to overcome against all odds…” More wonderful replies to the question: “What Inspires You?” from our Twitter and Facebook friends… Allison Doyle: The moon, nature, my children, my dogs and many of the new people i’m meeting on facebook. what inspires you? Katy Dawes: The sunset, sunrise, Friends, Family, [...]