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On the Strength of All Conviction…

  • Posted by Nacho
  • May 25, 2008

Oh, Just in case I forgot to post this poem, here it is. It speaks of mindfulness to me: On the Strength of all Conviction and the Stamina of Love by Jennifer Michael Hecht Sometimes I think We could have gone on All of us. Trying. Forever. But they didn't fill the desert with pyramids. ...>

Everything is Waiting for You, David Whyte

  • Posted by Nacho
  • April 24, 2008

Here's the poem I sent this week in my weekly email reminder for the Willamette Mindfulness Practice Group: At the end of the semester, with countless deadlines, lots of work left to do, the urgency everything seems to gain, it is easy to forget that there is a flow to things, an interconnection t ...>

Shinto, by Jorge Luis Borges

  • Posted by Nacho
  • April 20, 2008

Shinto by Jorge Luis Borges When sorrow lays us low for a second we are saved by humble windfalls of the mindfulness or memory: the taste of a fruit, the taste of water, that face given back to us by a dream, the first jasmine of November, the endless yearning of the compass, a book we t ...>

Buddha’s Dogs, by Susan Browne

  • Posted by Nacho
  • February 27, 2008

Buddha's Dogs I'm at a day-long meditation retreat, eight hours of watching my mind with my mind, and I already fell asleep twice and nearly fell out of my chair, and it's not even noon yet. In the morning session, I learned to count my thoughts, ten in on minute, and the longest was to ...>

Happy Valentine’s Day

  • Posted by Nacho
  • February 14, 2008

I hope you have a wonderful Valentine's day. Not that you have to eat candy, wear red, or play any particular coy games... but that you have a day suffused by love and reflection of loving-kindness. If you have the love and reflection along with the candy and the red, well then, so much the better. ...>

Getting There, by David Wagoner

  • Posted by Nacho
  • September 10, 2007

Getting There You take a final step and, look, suddenly You're there. You've arrived At the one place all your drudgery was aimed for: This common ground Where you stretch out, pressing your cheek to sandstone. What did you want To be? You'll remember soon. You feel like tinder Under a burning g ...>

Content, by David Ignatow

  • Posted by Nacho
  • August 17, 2007

Content I should be content to look at a mountain for what it is and not as a comment on my life. -- David Ignatow ...>

New

  • Posted by Nacho
  • June 14, 2007

From sunny California, I have to post this fantastic poem that my friend apparently Werner read at sangha yesterday. I got it via email today and just had to share it here in WoodMoor Village. Read it! The less words I use to describe it the better: New by Dara Gatling Austin Take off the ba ...>

Making Love with Hafiz

  • Posted by Nacho
  • May 25, 2007

Lately I've been reading Hafiz's poetry again, and it is a bell of mindfulness. Well, more like quite a few bells. Part of what I like best about his poetry is the complete sense of playfulness that pours from it. This man was having a good time. It comes across so clearly as he speaks of the divine ...>

Poems by Phoenix

  • Posted by Nacho
  • May 18, 2007

Phoenix has been writing poetry at school, and as part of the lesson plan they've been going over various poetic forms. These are two of his recent poems. Aren't they wonderful? The Tree The tree is Green Like The Grass With pokey vines Like a knife Yiiiiiiikes!! My Mom My mo ...>

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