Ryokan, a Zen master, lived the simplest kind of life in a little hut at the foot of a mountain.
Category: materialism
INSPIRATIONAL POEMS: “It’s The Same World” (Quote by Wayne Dyer) poem by Trina Graves
“It’s The Same World” Quote Title & Theme: Loving People Live In A Loving World. Hostile People Live In A Hostile World. But, It’s The Same World. (Wayne Dyer) What is your view of the world Do you think it’s a terrible place? Full of hostility, dangerous crime Neglect, greed and waste Or do you see…
POEMS: “Happiness” by Margaret Jang
Is a state of being, in which your soul
reaches beyond material needs or goals.
POEMS: “Deconstruct Your Life” by Margaret Jang
In order to move forward along your soul’s ascended path,
it is necessary to deconstruct your current existing life.
But refusing to release past and outdated issues,
or resisting to let go of accumulated material frivolity,
sadly leads to being bound by tight bonds felt as inner strife.
POEMS: “Is This All There Is?” by Margaret Jang
There comes a time in everyone’s life,
when this question stabs at the heart like a knife.
Some call it growing pains as you well know,
others call it change, a mid-life crises or so.
SPIRITUAL POEMS: “The Temple – What Makes It Of Worth” by Edgar Albert Guest
You may line with the rarest of marble each hall,
And with gold you may tint it; but then
It is only a building if it, after all,
Isn’t filled with the spirit of men.
POEMS: “A Father To His Son” by Carl Sandburg
A father sees his son nearing manhood.
What shall he tell that son?
POEMS: “Money” by William Henry Davies
When I had money, money, O!
I knew no joy till I went poor;
POEMS: “Songs Of Joy” by William Henry Davies
Sing out, my soul, thy songs of joy;
Sing as a happy bird will sing
Beneath a rainbow’s lovely arch
In the spring.
LONG POEMS: “Celestial Love” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Higher far, Upward, into the pure realm,
Over sun or star,
STORIES TO REFLECT: “Graduation Day’s Gift”
A young man was getting ready to graduate college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer’s showroom,
ZEN PARABLES: “DESIRES”
An emperor was coming out of his palace for his morning walk when he met a beggar.
