Posts Tagged "love of self"
For a Dancer
Reading at Waimea practice 10/1/2011 Keep fire burning in your eye Pay attention to the open sky You never know what will be coming down I don’t remember losing track of you You were always dancing in and out of view I must have thought you’d always be around Always keeping things real by playing the clown Now you’re nowhere to be found I don’t know what happens when...
Read MoreForgotten Family
The Secret Life of Red by Linaji Reading at Koloa Practice 8/11/2011 As I descend into basement shadows, I am washed in red. Smoothness is not a choice on the earthly plane. As light reveals, so also shadows are spawned. With this I must learn to rock my ignorance to sleep to await its hungry cry. I must feed my insincerity its milky gruel. I must give my meanness rapt attention. I must dine...
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 MoreJoseph and the Mirror
Rumi A friend of Joseph’s came to visit him after returning from a long journey. “What present have you brought me?” Joseph asked What could I bring you,” the friend replied that you don’t already have??” But” he added, because you are so beautiful, and nothing exists in all the world more beautiful than you, I have brought you a mirror, so you can know the joy at every moment of...
Read MoreA look at this Body…..
Reading at Anara Spa 10/15/09 Kent Bond 28 by Kent Bond “My Zen teaching has deepened to encourage people to really plunge into the world, into life. I want them to enter life, to embody their practice, tend it with their hearts. To attend to life, to this body, is to love it and bless it. Particularly we need to find a way to bless our wounds and the darkness we find ourselves in. It takes...
Read MoreThe Only Child
Vibration of Wonder Reading from Anara Spa and Koloa practice 08/13/09 As your fortune comes to carry you down the line And you watch as the changes unfold And you sort among the stories you’ve been told If some pieces of the picture are hard to find And the answers to your questions are hard to hold Take good care of your mother When you’re making up your mind Should one thing or...
Read MoreA Good Read
Reading at Koloa, Bodhi Tree and Waimea 06/15,16,17/09 The mirror reveals A very unique notebook A cherished volume That I have chosen to journal in Today Skin is the delicate parchment Organs, bone, joint and sinew The bindings and spine Each cell, Chapters. War and Peace are but cliff notes In comparison Bible, Koran, Kaballah Only echo its holiness I need not think to Turn the page For the...
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