Zen Robotz

21/11/2022

Dedicated to my Iranian sisters. 💚🤍❤️

In an eye a teardrop was welling,  then it departed;  slowly it rolled, gently dropping, then, it departed. 
Upon the dark firmament of existence, it twinkled  like a star that begun shining… then it departed. 
In the sea of being it had taken its place and yet it  only a drop of blood was taking… then it departed. 
In the fountainhead of blood it was hiding itself…  the value of every drop weighing,  then it departed. 
When at the cruelty of Heaven I began weeping…  it laughed at me and my weeping  then it departed. 
We had no ill-feeling between us. No one knows Why so offended it was feeling… then it departed. 
The moment that sorrow was staining my heart, its white skirts it was gathering, then it departed. 
A wave of fear and trouble and confusion rose up: Storm took sea: it was trembling, then it departed! 
And like one drop of dew in the garden of this life, on a rosy cheek it was glistening, then it departed. 
It, was settling in the heart for a short while…it, soul’s store of secrets was seeing, then it departed. 
Through the mysteries of life, it was criss-crossing, it did it accounts and accounting then it departed. 
All the winding and twisting of the road it learnt, for end of our search was asking, then it departed. 
The heart and eye gave some lustre and shine to it: from each tree fruit it was taking, then it departed. 
Whatever was told to heart by far-sighted reason, it listened…all, it was hearing, then, it departed. 
It was savouring both the sweet and bitter in life, about all of life it was learning... then it departed. 
Love’s messenger on way to the loved one it was: lover’s face farewell was kissing, then it departed. 
On the scales of Divine Justice, it fell: if only its worth, before, it was weighing: then, it departed.  
~ Tale of a Teardrop ~ Parvin E'tesami پروین اعتصامی

25/07/2022

Pazzi Androidi is an unsettling short Sci-Fi story written by one of my favorite authors. I was honored to create this illustration for my dearest friend, Marco Milini. You can read what happened to the three crazy androids following the link below: https://karattere.wordpress.com/2022/07/25/pazzi-androidi/

06/05/2022

This is a illustration to celebrate the original Canadian culinary creation of

20/03/2022

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

每一个出口在别处就是入口

Tom Stoppard

27/01/2022

“Happiness is a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind”
-Matthieu Ricard

#冥想 #漫画 #放松 #艺术

Music: Young Me Dreaming
Musician: Carl Storm

15/01/2022

“The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment.” - Eckhart Tolle

Music: Vertigo
Musician: Not The King

11/01/2022

When you’re sick, you can never imagine what it is like to be healthy. And when you are healthy, you can never imagine what it is like to be sick. That’s what being perpetually lost in thought feels like

Music: Dimes
Musician: Philip E Morris

06/01/2022

"A lot of the conflict you have in your life exists
simply because you're not living in alignment; you're
not be being true to yourself." ~ Steve Maraboli

Music: Sorry
Musician: Silicon Estate

29/12/2021

While we seem to be perpetually on the verge of arriving to some final position where we’ll rest free from preoccupation, challenges will never cease to arise. The hamster wheel won’t stop spinning unless we decide to step off it, once in a while. So why not trying to make some time off the ride of your life? And contemplate how still the world can be when you’re not chasing the next thing that will make you happy.

Music: Ohayo
Musician: Hani Koi
Site: https://icons8.com/music/

#2022

20/12/2021

https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Robotz-Monsters-Youniverse-Maybetation/dp/B096TTS6JB/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=zen+Robotz&qid=1639988140&sr=8-1

Life is not just black and white.

Quiet the chattering mind, be present in the moment, forget your problems, and color the mood of your day with these 21 robot illustrations.

Zen Robotz, a freely anime-inspired coloring book, features 21 original hand-drawn robot illustrations for you to color and enjoy. These detailed illustrations are perfect for teens, and adults. Start your journey into the depths of consciousness and experience the freedom of a mind unshackled to distraction. Let an image choose you, then sit back and enjoy the creative process take over.

18/11/2021

Psychological freedom is the ability of recognizing over and over again when we are thinking without knowing that we are thinking. It’s a skill that can be gradually acquired by training attention. It starts with focusing on single items, such as the breath. Not only to quiet the chattering mind, or reduce stress in general. More specifically it’s about flexing a muscle and grow more resilient to distraction. Breaking the spell of identification with thoughts feels a bit like waking up from a dream. And as we keep practicing mindfulness we grow more and more familiar with what once used to go unnoticed: a whole spectrum of emotions that offers valuable insight into our experience. Wisdom useful to assess what really matters to each one of us. This is the intrinsic value of the process that fuels the lifelong meditation project.

06/08/2021

“I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren't more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.”


Music: Interlude
Musician: Silicon Estate

22/07/2021

The mind lives in doubt and the heart lives in trust. When you trust, suddenly you become centered. -Osho

19/07/2021

You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.

-Megan Chance

Music: Looking In My Eyes
Musician: Ann Abel
Site: https://icons8.com/music/

16/07/2021

How do you build trust?

09/07/2021

"When you are not paying enough attention to your present experience, you risk to spend most of your day like if you were swimming to dry land after a shipwreck"
-Sam Harris

06/07/2021

disarming love beam

02/07/2021

Turning attention upon itself could be difficult till one gets the gist of it. Bringing this kind of formal practice inside the everyday experience also represents quite a challenge. Here’s where this trick could come handy, as meditation is really something that can be done in public spaces as well. Just focus on the feeling of being looked at. That’s one of the most prominent indicators of the sense of self. Pretty easy to recognize and a very interesting object of investigation.

01/07/2021

If you think that to look for who’s looking is already a quite difficult instruction, why not trying to look for who’s been looked at?

Music: Play It Sam
Musician: Philip E Morris

27/06/2021

What are you reacting to? A picture? An idea? Do you even know what going on in your head right now? Do you own your choice? Are you aware of why you do like or pass the next post? Look inside and get familiar with what’s going on in your mind. This exercise is probably not gonna feel useful right now but it will make sense later on. Trust me in this.

25/06/2021

Try catching the next thought as it arises on its own, and follow it till it fades away still on its own.

23/06/2021

to get off a never stopping train of thoughts:

1) train your attention so that it can stay with the breath.
2) focus on the gap in between exhalation and inhalation.
3) listen carefully to the silence in that tiny space.
4) expand that space in depth and quality.
5) as you realize that you’ve grown distracted, start all over again.

22/06/2021

How does one get off his own train of thoughts? 💭
🚂
How do you break the spell of being perpetually thinking without knowing that you’ve been thinking?

As you train paying attention to your breath, notice the gap between inhalations and exhalations. There’s a space there where you can puncture the fabric of concepts and listen to the quiet song of consciousness.

21/06/2021

Focusing on the breath is one exercise that helps training attention against distraction. As concentration grows resilient, try taking your practice to another level and start noticing the feeling of paying attention. In time, you’ll find that the sense of self is just another appearance in consciousness

19/06/2021

If you want to sail
A ship like mine
And be a sailor all the time
Then learn to do the sailor’s horn pipe
Just like me.

19/06/2021

Oh, a sailor’s life is the life for me,
How I love to sail on the bounding sea!!!

19/06/2021

And I love the wind blowing’
As we leave the quay,
‘Till we round the jelly and
We let the sail blow free
Cause I always had the notion
For a life upon the ocean
Dance the horn pipe to the
Motion of the rolling sea.

18/06/2021

It’s been 3 years since I’ve started working on my coloring book project and finally, it’s live on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096TTS6JB/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm_0DJ2AQH05CT8NTERZT20

18/06/2021

18/06/2021

It’s been 3 years since I’ve started working on my coloring book project and finally, it’s live on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096TTS6JB/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm_0DJ2AQH05CT8NTERZT20

15/06/2021

A man gets struck in the chest by a poisonous arrow and upon the timely arrival of a surgeon, he insist that before anything else, he needs to know the name of his assassin… now, this story points to the fact that one should get his priorities straight. But considering that we’re talking about people living in the times of Buddha, what are the odds of him surviving anyway? And what if the surgeon intervention was clearly going to shorten his already doomed existence. And what if the name of his assassin could be information vital to other’s survival? Are priorities absolute or are they relative? And what about the values that our priorities are based on?