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I lived on the moon

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Greyshaman
on May 4, 2008
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Such a beautiful song I came across, with both excellent lyrics and an amazing video to make it complete.
The band is called Kwoon and the song is called “I lived on the moon”.

Even though the music is very good, I wouldn’t have posted it if it wasn’t for the great lyrics. It’s pure poetry; the words express with such sincerity and heartiness the human desire to reach for the stars and to be true to ones dreams.

Lyrics:
Dear little lad
Here’s the story of my life
I lived on the moon (repeat)
Grey flying snakes along
Mountains of destiny while
The three tailed monkeys
Were drawing the stars
Light from the Sun and I
Hide myself on the dark side, alone
I’ve run so far
To find my way
Then I dream again.. alone

Dear little boy, listen
To voices of your soul
It showed you the way of
Silence and peace
Follow your thought and fly
Choosing all the things that you desire
Giant waves, fireflies..
Your dream will be your only shell
Your secrets, your hiding place, my son
Don’t let them try
To crush your brain
Let you go far
..my son

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A lesson in attitude

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Greyshaman
on April 22, 2008
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I read a beautiful little story today. It doesn’t say who the author were as many of these moral teachings often are without. Not rarely these text are retold old text from Buddhist or old Sufi teachings. But it would be nice to know where it came from. So if someone has information on the author then please say.

But then again, isn’t it possible that this were an actual tale from an old peoples home, or couldn’t it?

Happiness“The 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud lady, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o’clock, with her hair fashionably coifed and makeup perfectly applied, even though she is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today. Her husband of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary.

After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, she smiled sweetly when told her room was ready. As she maneuvered her walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of her tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on her window.

“I love it,” she stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy.

“Mrs. Jones, you haven’t seen the room …. just wait.”

“That doesn’t have anything to do with it,” she replied. “Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn’t depend on how the furniture is arranged.. it’s how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love it … “It’s a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do.

Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open I’ll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I’ve stored away … just for this time in my life.

Old age is like a bank account … you withdraw from what you’ve put in .. So, my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories. Thank you for your part in filling my Memory bank. I am still depositing.

Remember the five simple rules to be happy:

Free your heart from hatred.
Free your mind from worries.
Live simply.
Give more.
Expect less.”

Good story and good advices don’t you think.

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Relaxation to music

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Greyshaman
on April 18, 2008
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A bit of relaxation for us today

Two monks were returning to the monastery in the evening. It had rained and there were puddles of water on the road sides. At one place a beautiful young woman was standing unable to walk across because of a puddle of water. The elder of the two monks went up to a her lifted her in his alms and left her on the other side of the road, and continued his way to the monastery.

In the evening the younger monk came to the elder monk and said, “Sir, as monks, we cannot touch a woman?”

The elder monk answered “yes, brother”.

Then the younger monk asks again, ” but then Sir, how is that you lifted that woman on the roadside?”

The elder monk smiled at him and said “I left her on the other side of the road, are you still carrying her?”

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Alan Watts - The other side of the coin

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Greyshaman
on April 7, 2008
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I came across an animated video with excerpts made from lectures by Alan Watts. It’s been excellently put together and I find it very interesting. Tip: do a search on youtube after more by Alan Watts.

Leaving you with a favorite quote from Alan Watts:

“The inability to accept the mystical experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit — to the “conquest” of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.”

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Dark places - the island of Poveglia

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Greyshaman
on March 25, 2008
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Are there such things as ghosts? Do you believe there are frightful, haunted places? Places with bad history where strange and terrible things have happened.

PovegliaIn Italy there is a small isolated island in the Venetian Lagoon called Poveglia. This island has a very dark and sad history. At first the island was used as a dumping ground for thousands of plague victims during the three times in history when the black plague spread throughout Europe. Terrified of the black death the officials of Venice tried to isolate anyone that showed symptoms by sending them to this island. Here they would all meet a faith not even imaginable. It is said that more than 160 000 human beings died there during these sad times. To this day fishermen are said to avoid the waters near the island because of the chance of catching human remains in their nets. Continue reading ‘Dark places - the island of Poveglia’

On the subject of Rainbow Warriors

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Greyshaman
on March 20, 2008
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I came across this entertaining video. It’s well made and appeals to our sense of adventures and has an aura of mysticism to it. I admit that I like it, and it has cool music to..

What concerns me is that people generally feels that something is coming. That it’s not yet here, but will be soon. We don’t quite know when, but soon it will arrive. Why is it that we don’t want to accept that whatever spiritual changes we urge for, is never more then a breath away. Continue reading ‘On the subject of Rainbow Warriors’