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On the Strength of All Conviction…
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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