A Sensitivity to Things
Blog URL http://sensitivitytothings.com/
Located Auckland, New Zealand New Zealand
Tags meditation, peace, spirituality, japan, sri chinmoy, poetry, absurd, inspiring, beauty
The translation of the Japanese phrase “mono no aware” is “a sensitivity to things, and a gentle sadness at their passing.”
Latest Blog Posts
- Across the Ocean to Swim or Sink on Nov 15, 2009 in childhood inspiring life meditation sri chinmoy writing
As featured in Inspiration-Letters 17, a biographical account of a journey in search of self; a journey in search of the sunlit path. He was a bear of a man, with a bear-like, straggly grey beard, the last vestige and visage of the Rabbinical life-pa...
- My Japanese Brother on Nov 7, 2009 in inspiring japan life meditation sri chinmoy writing Buddhism kamakura ofuna reincarnation zen
A visit to a Zen monastery in Japan, meeting with a monk, more similarities than meet the eye. Hotel Mets, Ofuna, Japan. On the outskirts of Tokyo, a city that begins and then never seems to end. I am here on a whirlwind, week long visit with Sri Chi...
- Free Meditation Classes in Auckland on Nov 6, 2009 in inspiring meditation new zealand sri chinmoy auckland free meditation classes jogyata dallas
I can’t speak highly enough of meditation. It has truly, irrecoverably changed my life. If someone told you that you could do something for only fifteen minutes a day that would make you happier, less stressed, have more energy and be more crea...
- Close the Window on Nov 2, 2009 in japan life meditation sri chinmoy writing
Out of the corner of my eye someone is waving to me. Out of corner of hearing, headphones on and music playing, someone is speaking to me. “Excuse me…” Seat 23A, right next to the window, United Airlines flight 870 from Sydney to San Franci...
- The Urban Dictionary on Oct 31, 2009 in absurd beauty internet life
Juvenile most of the time, reviled some of the time, but never banal, the Urban Dictionary provides an alternative take on the everyday, and the night-time in-between. It is dressed downwards of mature sometimes, maybe most of the time, but that is w...
- What Hope a Decent Brew? on Oct 15, 2009 in absurd funny life coffee melbourne
“Go to the French cafe by the departure gate. It’s got really good coffee, and sandwiches too.” Dressed like a character from a Jack Kerouac novel, a connoisseur of places subterranean, my friend knows his coffee, and the city he lives in d...
- Long White Cloud by Alan Spence on Oct 12, 2009 in japan life literature meditation sri chinmoy
My stories often have their origin in something that actually happened – an incident, a memory, something heard. (In this case it was the leap out of a plane at 12000 feet – one of the scariest things I’ve ever done). It’s the...
