Posts Tagged "heart"

Silk Worm

Silk Worm

Reading at Anara Practice – 1/5 /2011 I stood before a silk worm one day And that night my heart said to me, “I can do things like that, I can spin skies, I can be woven into love that can bring warmth to people; I can be soft against a crying face, I can be wings that lift, and I can travel on my thousand feet Throughout the earth My sacks filled With the Sacred’ And I replied...

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Journey Home

Journey Home

Readings at Koloa and Anara  5/26/2011 Rabindranath Tagore The time that my journey takes is long and the way of it long. I came out on the chariot of the first gleam of light, and pursued my voyage through the wildernesses of worlds leaving my track on many a star and planet. It is the most distant course that comes nearest to thyself, and that training is the most intricate which leads to...

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Loving Kindness and Compassion

Loving Kindness and Compassion

Loveheart2 by berndt2 Reading at Koloa and Anara practices 3/03/2011 When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it is bottomless, that it doesn’t have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as so much space. Your world seems less solid, more roomy...

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Learning Deeply…

Learning Deeply…

Reading at Waimea Practice 3/01/2011 Teacher: We want you to learn these teachings so deeply that they lie upon your heart Student:  Why don’t you just put them in our hearts? Teacher: That’s not our job. we just place them on the surface. Then when your heart breaks, they fall in. —Buddhist story -  source...

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