DIAM

 DALAM DAKAPAN KASIH & BELAS

(In the embrace of love & compassion)

This is about the  'ku, karesansui & wabisabi' of zen garden, and the empty silence (kekosongan diam) of the Japanese forest. 

Adeela, Amira & Ainina... and all the mias, ninas & dellys in my life (anak2 murid).

The forest & zen garden teach us that life is not just about knowing & having, its more about being. As we engage in the act of filling our life, of collecting & quantifying, owning & consuming, of racing for knowing & having so many things, we should also engage in emptying, in being nothing (ku, in Japanese, ketiadaan or kekosongan in Malay).

Always return to that empty nothing state (kekosongan), our fitrah or primordial state. We do that 5 times a day. We say 'no' ('La' in Arabic) to all thots, feelings & forms (including our borrowed bodies or jasad), no to all things  in order to return & b in the embrace of The Most Loving & Compassionate (Rahman & Rahim). 'La' is an important utterance. It dissolves ego, or the false identification of self through nafsu. 

But we can only be in nothingness state by excusing our presence & beingness from our thots & feelings (thots and feelings are something not nothing). Thots & feelings, especially during our beta level brainwaves or state of awareness, are most of the time noisy & controled by our egos. If they still follow us, let them b, dont feed them, just bare witness, proceed to be in the alpha waves of silence (diam) & calmness (tenang) to the theta waves of khusyuk (emptiness & nothingness). Stay in that nothingness, in the embrace of no beginning no ending, formlesness, timelesness, eternal. 

Then we can go back and pick up our thots & feelings, and the shadowy presence of our borrowed body (jasad) to start becoming something with a refreshed position, in the gamna waves of higher awareness, grattitude & happiness. All are inherent in us. 

Thats what abah have learnt from spending hours & hours in such gardens & forests in Fukuoka, Kyoto, Yamaguchi, Osaka, Tokyo & of course recently, in Fuji.

Pray that we, with mama, could travel together again & again & again to enjoy our moments of beingness.

Luv u ol.