Reading at Bodhi Tree – 09/16/09
Two friends met at a cafe one day and began to talk over tea. They told each other of the dissatisfactions in their lives, how life was not what either had expected, how despite their best efforts, they seldom woke up happy in the morning, how they did not want [...]
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A Meditation and Psychotherapy Story
A Frightening Conclusion
Reading at Waimea practice 07/20/09
I have come to a frightening conclusion. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher(human being), I possess tremendous power to make a child’s (a fellow human being’s) life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of [...]
Willing to experience…
Reading at Bodhi Tree practice 07/15/09
Willing to experience aloneness,
I discover connection everywhere;
Turning to face my fear,
I meet the warrior who lives within;
Opening to my loss,
I am given unimaginable gifts;
Surrendering into emptiness,
I find fullness without end.
Each condition I flee from pursues me.
Each condition I welcome transforms me
And becomes itself transformed
Into its radiant jewel-like essence.
I bow to [...]
