Posts Tagged "connection"
Will I ever learn it all?
Reading at Koloa and Anara practices 12/02/2012 Tell me what you will my blue winged friend Did you hear me from where you drifted on the wind? This autumn wind on a summer day Sure can turn a blue sky grey Oh it’s a lonely day and cold There are secrets you’ve not told And there are parts of me that I have never known And I wonder if you see through the walls inside of...
Read MoreGod speaks to each of us…
Reading at Ambrosia Dome Practice 10/24/2011 God speaks to each of us as he makes us, Then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: “You , sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing Embody me Flare up like a flame and make shadows I can move in Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror Just keep going. No feeling is...
Read MoreThe Essence of My Practice
Reading at Koloa practice 9/15/2011 My practice moves from edge to edge, exploring the limits of a stretch, the inner realm of energy and breath. Each movement plumbs new depths of self-awareness. Who am I now, and now, and now? Who holds this pose with single-pointed focus, or loses the thread of breath and stops to find the center once again? Have I reached my full expression, or is there...
Read MoreStream of Life
Reading at Koloa practice 4/14/2011 The same stream of life that runs through my veins runs through the world, and dances in rhythmic measure It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean cradle of life and death in ebb and flow I feel my...
Read MoreI Want Both of Us
Reading at Anara practice April 13, 2011 I Want Both of Us To start talking about this great love As if you, I and the Sun were all married And living in a tiny room, Helping each other to cook, Do the wash, Weave and sew Care for our beautiful Animals. We all leave each morning To labor on the earth’s field. No one does not lift a great pack. I want both of us to start singing like...
Read MoreWhat If ?
Reading at Waimea practice 3/22/2011 and Anara practice 3/23/2011 What if? What if religion was each other? If our practice was our life? If prayer was our words? What if the Temple was the Earth? If forests were our church? If holy water the rivers, lakes and oceans? What if meditation was our relationships? If the Teacher was life? If wisdom was self-knowledge? If Love was the center of our...
Read MoreA Yogi’s Welcome
Reading at Waimea Practice 12/04/2010 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Morning Takes Hold by Lina-ji Welcome Please allow your stories to be left at the door with your shoes. You may pick them up if you really want them on your way back out. They...
Read MoreLost
Reading at Waimea practice 9/21/2010 Stand still. the trees ahead and bushes beside you are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. the forest breathes. Listen, It answers, I have made a place around you, If you leave it may come back again, saying Here. NO two trees are the same to Raven. No two...
Read MoreA look at this Body…..
Reading at Anara Spa 10/15/09 Kent Bond 28 by Kent Bond “My Zen teaching has deepened to encourage people to really plunge into the world, into life. I want them to enter life, to embody their practice, tend it with their hearts. To attend to life, to this body, is to love it and bless it. Particularly we need to find a way to bless our wounds and the darkness we find ourselves in. It takes...
Read MoreThe Knowing
Reading at Waimea practice - 08/22/09 The memory lies in us of how it could be in a loving relationship with one another, how it could be holy, filled with gentleness, kissed by heaven. And that love could be extended to everyone. There is somewhere within each of us a place where we remember and we know. It may have become but a faint whisper today, but when we are quiet, we hear it...
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