Posts Tagged "acceptance"
Sleeping Beauty
I'll be your Shelter by Lee Wilde Reading at Koloa and Anara Practice 01/02/2012 I look forward to the moment beauty is my own conceived easily like yellow dipped trees, a lazy dog the afternoon pillow of a lover’s chest when beauty is memorized and not a plea taken at the face value of Hollywood What is beauty anyway, but a shoulder to count on when others can’t see me in visual...
Read MoreAccepting……
Readings at Koloa Practices 12/5/2011 My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird — equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums. Here the clam deep in the speckled sand. Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing...
Read MoreIn a well known teaching…
Reading at Anara practice – 11/02/2010 In a well-known teaching, the Buddha advised: Do not believe in what you have heard do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations; do not believe in anything because it is rumored and spoken of by many; do not believe merely because the written statement of some old sage is produced; do not believe in...
Read MoreWhat’s the point?
Readings at Waimea practice and Anara practices 09/27/28/2011 The point here is to take life in all its rich variety just as it is, with its ten thousand opposites, and to go along with whatever circumstances require, embracing things after their own inclination or according to chance, letting things be rather than getting in there way and thus allowing each and every thing, each and every...
Read MoreNo Difference
Reading at Koloa practice 4/25/2011 In the entire ten directions of the Buddha’s universe There is only one way When we see clearly, this is no differences in the teachings. What is there to lose? What is there to gain? If we gain something , it was there from the beginning, If we lose anything, it is hidden...
Read MoreSorrow
Reading at Koloa Practice 08/26/10 by Linaji When sorrow comes, let us accept it simply, as a part of life. Let the heart be open to pain; let it be stretched by it. All the evidence we have says that this is the better way. An open heart never grows bitter. Or if it does, it cannot remain so. In the desolate hour, there is an outcry; a clenching of the hands upon emptiness; a burning pain of...
Read MoreStories and Feathers
Feathers Dance by Aspects of MK At one time Stories The clinging Painful, defining So real, Then A letting go A painful memory Now ignored Their beauty shunned Denied Cowed from Their lightness mistaken For lead. Being made ready The master gathers them all Laying them out so carefully Given to your hand So lovingly You hold each one up to the light Their plumes bathed in Brilliance The exact...
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