Posts Tagged "letting go"
This Traveling of Which We Speak
Reading at Anara practice 10/11/2011 (Thank you to Twi Chi for the finding) BEFORE Before… you cling. You cling to hopes and fears and even people without realizing what you’re doing. The Teacher says: “Pull that straw out of their neck! And out of yours while you’re at it! Stop leaking life force. The Age of Vampires is over! Forget any notion of enemies. Your only...
Read MoreThe Edge
Reading at Anara practice 10/5/2011 Through the disciplined precision of our efforts, we’ll come again and again to our edge-the difficult places beyond which we’ve previously been unable to move. through the willingness to soften and surrender to what is, we learn that we can gradually move beyond that edge. It is only through this interplay of hard and soft, of effort and...
Read MoreGoddess of Autumn
Autumn Birth by Albaelena Reading at Waimea practice 09/30/2011 We’ve made a bouquet of decorative grass. We’ve woven a garland of night blossoms. We’ve brought our offering of newly ripened paddy. Come, O goddess of Autumn, in Your chariot of white cloud. Come on Your pure blue path. Come in the clean bright forest hills. Come, wearing in Your crown white lotuses, freshly...
Read MoreThis Chapter
Purity of the Heart by Bill Brouard Reading at Waimea practice 9/14/2011 This chapter is closed now Not one word more Until we meet some day and the voices rising To the window Take wing and fly Open the old casement To the lands we have forgotten Look To the mountains and ridgeways And the steep valleys, Quilted by green, Here, as the last words fall away, the great and silent rivers of...
Read MoreLet Go
Reading at Waimea 05/21/2011 Let go of that which is gone. Let go of that which is lost. Let go of that which is not yet happening. What has happened in the past and what will happen in the future exist only in your mind. What is happening now is the infinite caress of the universe. To touch the eternal now and let it enfold you in its infinite Love is the essence of being in love. What is...
Read MoreNo Difference
Reading at Koloa practice 4/25/2011 In the entire ten directions of the Buddha’s universe There is only one way When we see clearly, this is no differences in the teachings. What is there to lose? What is there to gain? If we gain something , it was there from the beginning, If we lose anything, it is hidden...
Read MoreAgain Daddy…Again!!
Reading at Anara practice 11/17/2010 Warm waves gently Lapping about us The summer current Partners in our play Again Daddy! Again! Nose to nose Pure innocence beamed And I wondered Who really was holding who? Are you ready? Yes Daddy…AGAIN! Leaving my arms Squealing Legs flailing Eyes so wide I’d thought they’d burst A masterpiece mixture Of Terror Freedom Trust I knew She...
Read MoreThe Taste of Truth
Reading at Anara practice 08/01/2010 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...
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