Posts Tagged "letting go"
DEATH as Yoga
It has been said that we die every day. If we can agree that our hatha yoga practice is in essence a mirror of how we move in our everyday lives, then each time we take to the mat we experience a kind of death, a letting go. Each posture is asking us to let go of how we think we are supposed to move. Each posture often asks us to ‘put to rest’ a pattern or rut that we have been...
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“By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.” – Lao Tzu “If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.” —Ajahn...
Read MoreThis Chapter
Reading at Kalaheo practice 11/26/2012 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 life Are flowing into the oceans And on a...
Read MoreAgain Daddy…Again!!
Reading at Waimea practice 11/24/2012 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 Edge of who we are
Reading at Waaimea practice 10/9/2012 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 MoreThe Taste of Truth
Reading at Anara practice 6/13/2012 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...
Read MoreThis 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 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...
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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...
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