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Amy Winehouse photographed by Harry Benson, 2006

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When your lady on her period.

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“To be intimate is to feel the silence, the space that everything is happening in.”

— Adyashanti

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Win or learn.

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I finally finished my summer school so I’ll be making more creative contents for my blog. Here is a small guide on ways to relax after a tiring day. Is there any specific content you wanna see? Feel free to give suggestions! 

Thank you so much for your support ❤️

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there will be people who go out of their way to make you miserable; pay them no mind. don't give them your energy. they are suffering inside.

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I know lots of people are trying to buy this holiday gifts from independent businesses hit hard by COVID this year, so may I add another idea to your lists? Museums across the country are really struggling right now (the one I work for just went into its second lockdown), and many are working very hard to get their gift shop inventories up online as a result. Help a local museum stay afloat and find great gifts for history and science lovers in your life by having a look at their stores!

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“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”

— Dalai Lama

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Sutaungpyae Paya , Mandalay Hill, Mandalay, Myanmar

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#meditation #Meme

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“The Buddha goes on to talk about the three poisons: greed, and anger, and ignorance, and how the three poisons are what is making the fire, and the way out of doing this is not to deny the three poisons, but to recognize that if you turn them around, you come to their opposites. Instead of greed, you have generosity; instead of anger, you have compassion; and instead of ignorance, you have wisdom.”

— W.S. Merwin

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THE HEART OF OLD SEOUL: The Korean capital may be forward-looking and microchip-fast, yet the traditions of yesteryear meld with modern life in surprisingly graceful ways - photography: Marcus Nilsson - text: Manny Howard - CNTraveler April 2014

Jogyesa Temple (조계사) is the center of Korean Buddhism, serving as the main temple as well as the district head temple of Jogye order in Seoul. The temple was built in the late 14th century during the Goryeo period.

STAY: Lotte Hotel Seoul - The Shilla

EAT: Dadam - Doo-Boo-Ma-Eol - Durim - Hangaram - KaeSeong Traditional Cuisine - Seoil Farm - Tosokchon

SEE: Café Soban - Gwangjang Market - Jangja’s Butterfly Brewery - Jogyesa Temple - Namdaemum Market - Noryangjin Fish Market - Samhae Soju Craft Workshop - Seoul Folk Flea Market

READ: Korea’s Place in the Sun: A Modern History, by Bruce Cummings - Please Look After Mom, by Kyung-sook Shin

COOK: The Kimchi Chronicles: Korean Cooking for an American Kitchen, by Marja Vongerichten

WATCH: Oldboy, Park Chan-wook’s thriller set in Seoul (2003)

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Chitipati The Skeleton dance is a sacred Tibetan ritual found in Himalayan Buddhist lineages. The skeletons depicted are Chitipati, a pair of lovers known as the Lord and Lady of the charnel ground whose dance represents the eternal dance of death, as well as the attainment of perfect consciousness. They are worldly guardians, depicted as skeletons, each with a third eye of wisdom, holding scepters made of human heads and spines in one hand and a blood-filled kapala, sometimes with a still warm brain inside, in the other hand. The often performed dances reflect the Tibetan Buddhist teachings of the impermanence of all aspects of life, and trace their history back to the mystical and shamanistic pre-Buddhist Bon religion. Skeletons represent the disintegration of phenomena, including the body itself, as well as various states of mind. The dance celebrates the liberation that comes from acceptance of our impermanence. Will get shirts of this soon, possibly preorders? :)