#9 COMRADES IDEA & THE CLASSIC LOOP OF EMOTIONS 🌻 Poetic Slideshows Vide...

#8 COMRADES | Poetic Slideshows For Simple Thinking Video Series | Neha'...

MIRRORS🔍

All the pleasant things we experience in life,

are provided to us by the same source

as all the unpleasant things we experience...

By shifting this source

to any particular individual,

will always cause us suffering.

Whenever we hate anyone,

we hate not them, but only ourself.

Individuals are mediums

not the doer.

Individuals are appearances,

mirrors and fleeting shadows,

reflecting to us, parts of us,

but the source of light

behind all these shadows,

is only and only within our heart.

So, no matter how great the pain or anger,

the answer to it shall be discovered,

by going within.

~ Neha's Notebook

SHINE⭐

The most selfish thing you can do, 

is to abandon yourself. 

If you aren’t available to your own inner self, 

and instead looking to other people to be available to you. 

It is like, that everyone has their own torch. 

But you throw away your own torch and chase other people to share the light of their torches with you, 

 perhaps because you feel afraid of the light that emanates from your torch. 

Thereupon, it is always, always a wise thing to look within your heart, 

to not be scared of your inner darkness 

and to discover the source of all strength. 

It is only by loving and accepting your own darkness 

is that you’ll be able to love and accept others too. 

Without loving yourself, it is not only difficult, 

but it is impossible to love anyone else. 

Because there is no one else who exists except for you, for yourself.

Be brave. 

Be wild. 

Look within your heart. 

Shine your light!

POETRY🌅

Poetry calls me to

take a journey,

Each poem

wants to take me

somewhere

but in the end

I find myself

reaching at the same place

for, each poem

stems from this place

of my heart

which people call by the name of love

and I like to call by the name of pain.

Sweet pain. Poetry.

EMOTIONS🎨

In the outer world, if a crocodile eats a goldfish, or if a tiger eats a deer, or if a leaf separates from the tree, or if a living organism dies,

it is sad.

But it is what is.

Life is full of heartbreaking appearances.

In the inner world too,

we all carry emotional energies which sometimes take the form of raging dinosaurs and sometimes like a sweet positive goldfish.

In the outer world,

we can’t control anyone’s destiny, their birth or death,

But here, in our inner world,

we do have an opportunity

to redirect these emotional energies

for knowing & understanding the nature of our mind.

By understanding the nature of our mind,

we shall be able to make efficient use of it

rather than being unconsciously driven by it!

SELF ACCEPTANCE 💠

Whenever you feel unaccepted, unlovable or unimportant by someone, anyone, for being who you are, as it is, then it is futile to either try to make them accept you or even to keep dwelling in anger at them for not being able to accept you. The best thing you can do herein, is to first accept yourself exactly the way you are right now and secondly, to forgive the one who couldn't accept you, probably because they didn't have the ability to accept that particular attribute in themselves too. They became a medium offering you suffering at first, however, once you learn the lesson, they can be viewed as a medium offering you the freedom from your own mind too!

Thank the universe and let them go!

Neha's Notebook

3 Writing Lessons I Learned From Kamala Das & her Poetry | Neha's Notebo...

Kamala Surayya Das is widely known late Indian poetess and Malayali author, also known as the Mother of Modern English Indian Poetry. Famous for her open-bold expression and confessional autobiographical poetry, she wrote mostly in English and Malayalam. Here are a few points that we can learn from her writing style.

 

#1 Storytelling expression

Even though, most of her work was of autobiographical nature, the storytelling style of her poetry made readers connect with it. For instance, this is a stanza from her poem ‘Punishment in Kindergarten’ in which she describes a childhood experience.

 

Today the world is a little more my own.

No need to remember the pain

A blue-frocked woman caused, throwing

Words at me like pots and pans, to drain

That honey-coloured day of peace.

‘Why don't you join the others, what

A peculiar child you are!'

No need to remember the pain

A blue-frocked woman caused, throwing

Words at me like pots and pans, to drain

That honey-coloured day of peace.

‘Why don't you join the others, what

A peculiar child you are!'

 

#2 Freestyle Flow

Here’s a verse from her collection Summer in Calcutta. Notice how she is writing without any particular technique or rhyme scheme. In free verse. A major portion of her poetry was in free verse. And, with no particular poetic device or pattern.

 

Again, I am drunk

Yes, but on the gold

of suns, What noble

venom now flows through

my veins and fills my

mind with unhurried

laughter? My worries

doze. Wee bubbles ring

my glass, like a bride’s

nervous smile…

Yes, but on the gold

of suns, What noble

venom now flows through

my veins and fills my

mind with unhurried

laughter? My worries

doze. Wee bubbles ring

my glass, like a bride’s

nervous smile…

 

 

You lead me along a route

I have never known before

 

(She writes in her poem Tonight This Savage Rite)

 

#3 Metaphors & Imagery

Imagery is one of the most essential elements of poetry. Even though, it might not necessarily be related to pictures but pertaining to any sense including smell, touch, sound, taste or image. Poetess Kamala Das too, used lots of metaphors in her poetry; examples of which include Sun, sea, house, window glass, bangles, funeral fires, nature, human body etc.

One such example of her poem is Words. See how she compares the sounds of words with leaves in this verse.

 

All round me are words,
and words and words,
They grow on me like leaves, they never
Seem to stop their slow growing
From within... ~
 

32 Lessons I Learned from Natalie Goldberg & her book Writing Down The B...

In this video, I present 32 Lessons I Learned from Natalie Goldberg & her book Writing Down The Bones, as she explores the various parallels between the practices of Zen meditation and Writing!

#1 Trust your Mind & Have Confidence in your Experience

#2 Be in the Present Moment & begin from here

#3 Beginner's Mind & First Thoughts

#4 We are not the Poem

#5 Keep Your Hand Moving

#6 Allow yourself to write the worst junk in the world

#7 Give Yourself the needed Time~Space to Grow

#8 Writing is not a Pizza or a Burger

#9 Writing is a process of Composting

#10 Inspire yourself by Yourself

#11 Have a Sense of Wonder

#12 Bake the cake of your writing with depth of vulnerability. Follow your heart.

#13 Don't Use Writing To Get Love & When Love Gets You Don't Run Away From It

#14 Don't follow Rules only to follow the rules

#15 You don't have to be too dutiful towards something~ anything

#16 Go Further Than You Think You can

#17 Check Your Attitude on Success & Failure

#18 Don't Worry about Talent, Skill & Capability. Just Practice Your Craft.

#19 Let's Eat A Car, yes!

#20 Make Good Use of Your Loneliness

#21 Understand the Nature of Monkey Mind - Creator & Editor

#22 What to Write, What Not to Write & Writing Prompts

#23 Form, Style, Structure & Beyond

#24 Each moment is different. Accept your wholeness & write from it.

#25 On Writing a Memoir

#26 On Writing a Haiku in English

#27 What's your purpose for using the medium of writing? Be clear.

#28 Re-reading our own work

#29 Embrace Your Darkness & Shadows

#30 Teachers are everywhere. Support is omnipresent.

#31 The Point of No Hindrances

#32 Free The Writer Within You

FEARS👁️

Fears are the voices inside our head
which guide us about the

various possibilities we might

experience destruction, pain,

or loss in our upcoming life moments.

However, even the biggest of all fears

is but only a voice, and we are always

unattached to it. Anything can happen

to our body, and anything can happen

to our mind, but we are always unattached

and untouched to any kind of destruction.

But we must inquire this thing

with each and all of our fears,

with patience, dedication & focus.

VERSE🎨

It's okay

if you are the better

and I am the worse,

if you are the best

and I am your reverse,

if you are a beautiful blessing

and I am a dirty curse,

You and I,

both are unique verses,

and a verse after all,

is neither better or worse.

A verse,

no matter what kind,

is just a verse.

And I,

am just a unique verse!

HUMAN👻

Sharing a snippet from an old article.

Each one of the 

human beings
is one part saint

and one part devil

Read full article at https://itsnehasnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-adventure-of-life-and-7.html