Reading at Koloa practice March 1, 2010
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 [...]
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I Want Both of Us
What If ?
Reading at Bodhi Tree practice 07/01/09
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 [...]
A look at this Body…..
Reading at Anara Spa 10/15/09
“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.
The 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.
