Luna Arjuna's Blog (95)

May God grant you always...

A sunbeam to warm you,

A moonbeam to charm you,

Laughter to cheer you,

Faithful friends near you,

And whenever you pray...

Heaven to hear you.

~ An Irish…

Be gentle with that tender heart of yours.

It may be holding a years worth of grief inside it.

Be caring with all those parts of you that feel life’s tender moments, childhood pains and unmet emotions.

Take yourself out into the gathering light and breathe a bright ember into the very centre of you, into your hearts…

She asked him, 'How much are you selling the eggs for?'

The old seller replied, '$.25 an egg, Madam.'

She said to him, 'I will take 6 eggs for $1.25 or I will leave.'

The old seller replied, 'Come take them at the price you want. Maybe, this is a good beginning because I have not been able to sell even a single egg…

This Earth-dweller seems finely in tune with the Samhain spirit.



Her Scorpionic solitude, in touch with the elements and the fading glories of autumn, admit no compromise, distraction, or superfluous company.



She is where she…

it’s 3:23 in the morning

and I’m awake

because my great great grandchildren

won’t let me sleep

my great great grandchildren

ask me in dreams

what did you do while the planet was plundered?...

what did you do when the earth was unraveling?



surely you did something

when the seasons started failing?



as the mammals, reptiles, birds were all dying?



did you fill the streets with protest

when democracy was stolen?…

Art by Egon Schiele

My friends, do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world now. Ours is a time of almost daily astonishment and often righteous…

Image: Chen Yongle

Gemini New Moon brewing and culminating Wed, 12:43 pm PT.

New Moons are good for beginning something fertile, however you define that to be.

Eschew the grand; applaud the small but…

"We are part of a magical, beautiful, and suffering Earth, whose darkening we have created with our endless exploitation. The Earth, which is so infinitely generous, needs our prayers, needs our loving, our open hearts and remembrance... Once again when we can remember our love for the Earth, our reverence for what is sacred within all of creation, and honor…

The plant featured here is caught between a plastered wall and a hard place.

He wouldn't have it any other way, to be so cornered by so much festive, unpretentious beauty somewhere in Morocco.

He feels kinda lucky.

I wish the same for any of…

Image by Alex Saberi

"When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,

 and when we escape like squirrels turning in the

 cages of our personality

 and get into the forests again,

 we shall shiver with cold and fright

 but things will happen to us

 so that we…

For 10 days during an Introduction to Buddhism course, we recited the words of the Dalai Lama.

There were 100 students, and each morning, before our first meditation session, we said these words out loud together. For many of us, reciting anything in the morning wasn’t part of our usual routine.

We might peek through our…

“I don’t think anybody can fall in love unless they feel lonely.” ~ Trungpa Rinpoche

Forget those “love yourself” mantras.

Forget those affirmations, self-help guides, stacks of chocolate, and wine.

Forget anything

that…

Photo: The village women of the Chipko movement in the early 70's in the Garhwal Hills of India, protecting the trees from being cut down.

The first tree huggers were 294 men and 69 women belonging to the Bishnois branch of Hinduism, who, in 1730, died while trying to protect the trees in their village from being…

Art : Lorenzo Grazioli

"There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures.



There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding.



And there are times of fruition, when…

Art by Catrin Welz-Stein, "Velvet Sky"

"Truth has no path, and that is the beauty of truth,

It is living. When you can see this fact, that truth is something living, moving, which has no resting place, which is in no temple, mosque, or church, which no religion, no teacher, no…

(Painting: Alla Tsank)

When our hearts are small, our understanding and compassion are limited, and we suffer. We can’t accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we demand that they change. But when our hearts expand, these same things don’t make us suffer anymore. We have a lot…

Chagall 1954: Abraham and the Three Angels

This being human is a guest house.

Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,

some momentary awareness comes

as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!

Even if they're a crowd of…

Photo : Philipp Borges,Vicentina, Perù, Enduring Spirit

"The relationship between mother and child is the foremost analogy used in developing compassion. According to the medieval Indian and Tibetan traditions, the traditional way of cultivating relative bodhicitta is to choose your mother as the first…

Once in a while
I just let time wear on
leaning against a
solitary pine
standing speechless,
as does the whole universe!
Ah, who can share
this solitude with me?

- Ryokan

There is a tribe in Africa called the Himba tribe, where the birth date of a child is counted not from when they were born, nor from when they are conceived but from the day that the child was a thought in its mother’s mind. And when a woman decides that she will have a child, she goes off and sits under a tree, by herself, and she listens until she can…