May 16, 2008

Learn to feel your fingers & be balanced at work

An interesting idea to spread good vibes in corporate environment in a sahaj (yes I love writing it in Sanskrit, you can read it spontaneous in English) way. I work for an international private company well established in EP market. Recently I ve already written about how the HR department makes some assiduous effort to promote wellness and balance among colleagues and departments. It is not an easy task but at least people manifest to give a try to the concern. At least it is a first positive step towards desire of realization. Deep down everybody wants to be realized as a person and we belong to communities which also are projected towards collective realization. But realization is simpler and not complicated as human mind tends to think of, it works spontaneously most of the time and we verily are guided by our dreams in our actions. It is so evident! Can you see that?

 

So which one is this interesting idea? Insights come from all the seminars about make up, self massage, dance, singing organized at my office by HR. Everybody is seeking to know new methods to balance the stress and the individual mind plus behavior. This is also innate, we naturally go towards integration whenever we are placed on a path of pure evolution and not disintegration or involution and other things like these.

 

How many people know that they can detect impurities and stress on their fingers? Not everybody. But this science is just amazing and finds its deep root in ayurveda from India. This Asian continent is quite miraculous with all its almost hidden Science that is not yet accessible to EVERYBODY. How can that be possible? People must know they can cure themselves; they can be able to detect whats wrong and whats good with them. Beside this ayurveda is also compatible with the science of the points and meridians located on the body all life studied in China, another great Asian country for these kinds of matters.

Energy, energy, energy, people do not do anything else that talking about and working thru the energy. I read this word everywhere now, on the poster, in the commercial leaflets, it s so energetically good this brainwashing going on here!

On a corporate level, sitting in the peace of their chairs all the modern workers of the busiest cities can start to understand how their fingertips do speak to them. And even when they are at the desk or in a conference, in a meeting or on a train in a business trip they will know how they are feeling and how they can improve their performance and mental state, thru the achieved sensibility of their hands. As practical as it sounds. This is it. The new science of the natural connection with our fingers is unavoidably the great breakthrough for our citylifetyle.  Ayurveda & Yoga are best allied to win over huge bunches of terrible inconveniences and beyond…in your office. 

May 15, 2008

Bharat natyam and the art of not thinking

bharatnatyam

From the base of the spinal chord to the top of the head, let me tell you how bharat natyam dance does work out things for the one who practices.

The main position of the legs is that they have to be open with knees facing towards the outside: it is an initial position to understand the direction of the legs, between them an empty space of the shape of a diamond is formed. Why is this position good for the bottom of the spinal chord and all the pelvic area? Because it simply opens it up in a firm and controlled way. The hips infact do not move. This lower part is one block. The more this area, called mooladhara in sanskrit, does open the more fragrance of wisdom and joy will emerge into the personality of the student expressing thru the attitude and the shining eyes. This is a very basic principle of ayurveda and also sahaja yoga, the most modern/ancient yoga which is inspiring thousands of people in all different aspects of their life around the world.

Second let’s jump directly to the top of the head. Because there is a strong connection between mooladhara and sahasrara (top of the brain). The more the mooladhara is fixed and established in its own position the better it is for the inner energy (biologically located on it) to rise and reach the head influencing the activity of all the neurons. Now it comes the best part.

My teacher from Kazakistan says “dont think”. Meaning the more you think about the position and the step you want to achieve the worst it is because you’ll get stuck into the thinking and you will loose all the magic of the dance. Therefore this form of classical dance is a perfect catalizer to meditate and be in a thoughtless state of awareness. This dance cannot be learned by memorizing the steps in my experience. The more one try to make effort by memory the more will be disappointed and unhappy with the learning. This is purely a dance of thoughtless state of the person where she just enjoyes and becomes the joy itself duringthe practice. Next part will tell more about other many aspects of studying bharat natyam.

May 14, 2008

Why my other friends are not realized & the concern I feel for them

 

This is one of the heart breaking things for someone who has minimum of concern to see everybody happy and joyous around herself/himself. I meet friends everywhere I go either for job reasons, entertaining ones, other activities… There are plenty of factors which could be found that do not make these people realized in this life. The vibrations they emanate do really speak immediately and talk not beauties or joy very very often. These kind of vibes are also visible thru the face of each individual, thru their attitudes and speaking which travels towards my ears and impacts in some ways my person.

 

They follow reasons and evidences why these friends are not realized souls or realized people:

  • They talk about everything happens in their life making of small things the most gigantic ones in their attention
  • They are pretty glued to certain people/groups and it is very difficult for them to hang out with others completely different from them for hobbies, languages, ideas, etc, etc.
  • They make a big fuss about beliefs and believing, in the sense that they are looking for something or someone to believe in because their personal structure is too weak from within and helpless most of the times
  • Their face are tense and not relaxed all the time, they seem to live in a world of eternal emergency state
  • They make frequent talks about simplicity  
  • The movements of their body are not fluid and soft
  • They always wear the same “favourite” colors and styles with no originality
  • They easily get nervous beginning to use harsh words sometimes & not mastering themselves
  • They use repetitive patterns of language and communications in similar situations

 

What to do with these people? Find methods to address them towards self-realization?

How would be possible that:

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May 13, 2008

Real journalism requires vibrant minds at work

The feeling of headaches generated when starting reading journalistic oriented stuff might happen for these reasons:

  • journalistic oriented people put too much informations often recycled and summerized by other works, thus not genuin
  • they emanate vibrations of a mind who is inclined to research everything with no control
  • very often the journalists have weird hobbies and interests related to false knowledge and inexistent worlds and these tendencies can be mirrored into their articles

On the other side when the presentation of a content or topic has got origin from a brilliant and light mind the story is verily different. Explanations and sentences just flow in such a smooth way inside your mind, they do not get stuck and you do not need to read one word or one line more than one time! It is very interesting and bright when they talk for example of human happenings and at the same time make comparisons or parallels with the nature, the plants, the water, the mountains. it shows that they are very well grounded personalities with a well nourished soul.

It is not sufficient sometimes to have a big brain, collect info and read as many newspapers as possible to stay updated! It sounds frenzy, nothing new from the standard educational methods of the big schools of journalism. I mean the world goes on even without them, what’s the use to be so much updated about all different events?  Can they live without reading a newspaper for 24 hours? Or even on holiday the attention is always into those writing stuff? Then we make the excuse that we got inspired by this landascape or by that person to write and entire article about it. Can the inspiration be solely an inspiration without being translated in words all the time nowadays? I just wonder.

 

May 11, 2008

Do you want to know how it feels to live on a beach for almost two decades? Read it here

There are many people nowadays who go for holiday in seaside places, in resorts on the beach. Many more are moving to the cities determined to work and live there and see the natural beaches only for vacation because of course in such a materialistic world we live today who is going to choose to stay on a beach for 365 days a year. There are commercials about wireless products and laptops which make people believing that yes they can be in control of their job from an island while sipping a fruit cocktail under a palm tree, arent there? But who would stay settled ona beach for years today? Only the ones who are forced to by the events of life, or who are kind of lost in this universe, let’s’ say.

One time in Jamaica i met an old man who was surviving to the poverty by singing raggae and making straw-hats under a tree all the time. Every morning he would stay under the pal tree crossing the straw leaves. His skin was dark and wrinkled, he said to have been good friend with Bob Marley and to have composed music for him during young years. Who knows if it’s true. But he was a good man, quite a symbol of a life-on-the-beach in a central american country of the past years. He could have been a good friend of my grandpa probably who was able to understand the variations of the weather just by looking at the sky in the morning. He was always right, very knowledgeable about nature and time cycles. It is because he was living and working on a beach for 80 years. His wife the same for 95 years. Their daughter, my mother, the same and still now at 52 in the old century house with one kilometer of peaceful beach in front of it. The beach where her two daughters, my sister and I also spent all their childhood, the adolescence and few more years.

Do you really want to know how it feels to have spent 19 years on a beach? See again the picture above. Then ask it to the sound of the sea waves, to the light of the starry sky every night, to the melody of the seagulls early morning, to the cool grey sand  under the naked feet, to the storm coming thru the wind, to the punctual sound of the anchor released just behind the barrier rock in the harbour. All this is only imaginable for the ones who did not live two steps from the sea. Nurturing, always calm and shallow sea. Just like a real father.

 

 

May 10, 2008

Positive epidemy of Indian art-forms

Which I wanted to briefly recollect here based on two trips, one in India and one not far from home in Hong Kong. These are the epidemy we love to hear arent they? These artistical injecton of bubbling lovely effort to raise our awareness and our energy levels. To push them higher towards humble and generous goals. To make them touch the souls of all the people around ourselves so that at least they can get a soft glimpse of ho wparadise laws work out. They work out thru love and compassion, thru dance and action.

You know how much i love dancing already. My mom used to tell me all the times when i was about 7: “daughter i am sorry you were born in Italy cause if you were living in Russia now i would have enrolled you right away in a dance school to work out your talent better”. Never mind i took other paths but dance is always in my heart. In the next post i want you to sniff two secrets of one kind of the indian classical dance which i am studying now. stay alert and move your body on the notes&sounds of heaven.

May 9, 2008

oh mothers!

oh mothers! pls dnt be fashionable, nor sexy nor intelligent. we just want you to be yourself, to go deep down into your roots and to know youe mother within. oh mothers! please help us to emancipate this wonderful unique world left. with love, r.

[the picture is a commercialized message to attract the mothers attention in Hong kong city]

May 9, 2008

MosaiKong de cement & nature

It is the same city, the one i am discovering day by day…

May 7, 2008

Reviving Chinese force

As i am writing in the last posts here and here with the most auspicious thought that the Tang living force was awakened in all the branches regarding Chinese lifestyle: politics, economy, art and electronics. i am sure the strenght and power which were truly evident thru the acts and the spirituality of all the men and women <worriors> belonging to this memorable time, can revive now and bring China into a new light and more original perspective.

Verses of the song Kindly translated by my mandarin teacher in Beijin:

SonglingJ it’s a cool tasty song!I generally translate the meaning for u!

 

jianjiaCang cang    bailu  weishuang

蒹葭苍苍 白露为霜

The plain world,the white dew becomes frost


guangxiu piaopiao   jinzai hefang
广袖飘飘 今在何方

the wide sleeve of the gown wafting,now where the person is


jijing cangsang    jidu panghuang
几经沧桑 几度彷徨

how many up and down in life,how many uncertain events


yiju miaomiao   zhongcheng  juexiang
衣裾渺渺 终成绝响

the clothes only a few,finally disappearing


woyuan chonghui  hantang   zaizou  jiaozhigongshang
我愿重回汉唐 再奏角徵宫商

I want to go back to han tang dynasty,play the instruments again.


zhuowohanjia yishang   xingwoliyizhibang
着我汉家衣裳 兴我礼仪之邦

wearing my han dynasty clothes,revive the polite country


woyuan  chonghui  hantang   zaipushengshi  huazhang
我愿重回汉唐 再谱盛世华章

I want to go back to han tang dynasty,write the great songs again.


heju dangzuqiechang   kanwo huaxia erlang
何惧道阻且长 看我华夏儿郎

no fear of the hard and long road to go,look at the descendants from then.

 

May 6, 2008

Power runs on the lines of design

It is beautiful to see how the design of certain style flourishes in one place and then moves to another one. And people can admire the original feature of the original design truly better in the second place than in the first. It’s fascinating. This is what happened to the buddhist Chinese architecture which originated here in China during the Tang Dinasty and can be nowaday found quite intact in the island of Japan.

There is almost no need to go and seek for informations about this period because the temples speak by themselves. They are charged with silence, dignity and sober beauty. These qualities are certainly the same residing in the ancient Chinese spirit which was moreless lost for all these years. These are the blossoming times and the meaning of strenght and power animating this spirit must come back now.

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