Tag Archive > life

This Chapter….

Reading at Waimea practice 01/12/2010

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

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A Song for the Search

Reading at Waimea  Practice   01/12/10

And the song rang out ‘midst the silence of the lodge
I have sat in the pews of hundreds of churches
Praised your name-Praised your name

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Gems # 2

Readings at our various locations on the island
Hiding in this cage of visible matter
Is the invisible
Life Bird
Pay attention to her
She is singing
Your song
—Kabir

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Pray for Peace

Reading at Yoga Bodhi Tree 11/25/2009
Pray to whoever you kneel down to:
Jesus nailed to his wooden or marble or plastic cross,
his suffering face bent to kiss you,

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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 [...]

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A Musing….

Reading  at Koloa and Anara 10/26/09
Funny isn’t it….
How we’ve chosen
To be…
Led, shown, guided, taught, illumined, inspired….
While others choose
to be….

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Why Music?—

Welcome address to the freshman class at Boston Conservatory given by Karl Paulnack, pianist and director of music division at Boston Conservatory –

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A Meditation and Psychotherapy Story

Reading at Bodhi Tree – 09/16/09
Two friends met at a cafe one day and began to talk over tea. They told each other of the dissatisfactions in their lives, how life was not what either had expected, how despite their best efforts, they seldom woke up happy in the morning, how they did not want [...]

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The Journey

Reading at Koloa practice 09/03/09

One day you finally knew what you had to do and began,
though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice,
Though the whole house began to tremble
and you felt that old tug at your ankles.

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Celebration of Life

On Sunday August 16 I had the honor of speaking at a celebration of life for a dear friend, a yogini who  had recently passed from the earth plane to continue her journey after a  2 year long experience with cancer.

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