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Just For Now

Paul Reynolds — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:15:16 +0000

Reading at Waimea Practice 5/1/2010

Just for now, without asking how, let yourself
sink into stillness.
Just for now, lay down
the weight you so patiently bear upon your shoulders.

Feel the earth receive
you, and the infinite
expanse of sky grow even wider as your awareness
reaches up to meet it.

Just for now, allow a wave of breath to enliven your
experience. Breathe out
whatever blocks you- from
the truth.

Just for now, be boundless, free, awakened energy tingling in your hands and feet. Drink in the possibility of being who and what you really are
so fully alive that when you open your eyes the world looks different, newly born and vibrant,

Just for now.

—Danna Faulds

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The Taste of Truth

Paul Reynolds — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:24:33 +0000

Reading at Bodhi Tree 08/05/09

For the moment/ I’ve stopped struggling.
The undertow tugs at my clothes/ and the
current takes me where it will. Surrender
sounds like defeat/ but this tastes like
victory/ the sweet release into something
open/ empty/ yet complete.
My heart speaks/ instructing me to relinquish all
control, I close my eyes/ and see myself
dissolving while remaining whole.
When/ at last/1 am delivered gasping to
the shore, I know it was the letting go
that brought me home. I was saved
not by my strength/ but by daring to
be vulnerable and weightless/ choosing
not to hold onto any of the debris that
floated past me. Truth tastes salty/ like
tears/ or the wind-whipped spray torn
from the froth of breakers. Truth tastes
like drowning/ feels like being spit out
of the belly of the whale to stand inside
a larger footprint on the sand.

—Danna Faulds

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Short Prayer of Thanks

Paul Reynolds — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:52:15 +0000

Reading from Kalaheo practice 07/27/09

Lord, thank you for this time
to be, to see/and live in harmony.
Thank you for sanctifying each
act and thought, for teaching me
that the heart’s expansion and
contraction is just a natural
part of being human. Thank
you for accepting my many
imperfections hanging out
for all to see like laundry
on the line. Thank you for
showing me with such
equanimity that life is so
much wider than my mind.

—Danna Faulds

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The Taste of Truth

Paul Reynolds — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:32:51 +0000

For the moment, I’ve stopped struggling.
The undertow tugs at my clothes/ and the current takes me where it will. Surrender sounds like defeat, but this tastes like victory, the sweet release into something open, empty, yet complete.
My heartspeaks, instructing me to relinquish all control. I close my eyes, and see myself dissolving while remaining whole.
When, at last, I am delivered gasping to
the shore, I know it was the letting go
that brought me home. I was saved
not by my strength, but by daring to
be vulnerable and weightless, choosing
not to hold onto any of the debris that
floated past me. Truth tastes salty, like
tears, or the wind-whipped spray torn
from the froth of breakers. Truth tastes
like drowning, feels like being spit out
of the belly of the whale to stand inside
a larger footprint on the sand.

—Danna Faulds

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