Dear one Accept this bouquet of dew, Bubbles, dreams & clouds Tied loosely with a cobweb Full of life Self-effacing & sudden Incautious Fugitive as air No vase can contain it No time capture all it says So wear it like a flower In your hair and know My humanity adorns it Every brushed-away tear … More Dharma Poem: Dew, Bubbles, Dreams & Clouds from the Diamond Sutra
Even before Buddha became Buddha A dragon stood guard Magnificent creature Unnecessary precaution Intent on austerities Danger comes from within Indecision Self-loathing Stiffening of will Nothing dragons can do Except wait with sad eyes Until the mind-propelled Whirlwind blows over What use a dragon’s roar That rattles the heavens Scuttles the clouds Pours rain? Even … More Dharma Poem: Had I Been the Dragon
(for Jake) Suppose you don’t know who you are or where the hell you fit in the universe. Suppose that makes you act like your father and you get caught in a body you mistake for your own. You reach out, feeling grumpy, for something to satisfy, skin, eyes, nose wanting contact: food, fame, sex, … More Dharma Poem: Suppose — A Rhapsody on the 12 Nidanas
(with thanks to Mingyur Rinpoche) Here’s what Rinpoche says: Going up or down the road goes to Llhasa. Scratchy or happy minds meditating go to Llhasa. From the east or from the west the road that goes to Llhasa goes to Llhasa. Stay alert. Thoughts bang on the windshield. Pain grabs your legs. Remain in … More Dharma Poem: Going to Llhasa
(for sangha) Who is wholehearted? Knights slaying dragons? Disentangling maidens? Percival? Launcelot? Bright-eyed, pure? Right Arm of God? Who radiates from within Full of fire UnQuixotic? Who knows how to kneel? If you hold back you can’t be captain. You need conviction to raise a sword. Captain Whole Heart is no fool. She who forswears … More Dharma Poem: Captain Whole Heart
I get it BodhisattvasRUs same bodies same minds without the scars or the hooks of attachment 6 senses alive unhampered by this way or that shoveling sidewalks offering food me you bodhisattva no difference except for the glow the being-here-now that throws open the world © January 26, 2016 | Carolyn White
My husband was dying. But we didn’t know it–not yet. Daily I drove to the hospital. Walking the parking lot I focused on breathing until I turned into five streams: form and feelings, perceptions, volition and consciousness. The Buddha called them skandas. I knew them as streams pouring from me, shifting, subtle, nothing to sort … More Dharma Poem: The Five Skandas
Unimpededness is “the natural consequence of the union of emptiness and clarity.” It is “the freedom to experience anything and everything whatsoever.” — from Joy of Living by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Take off the fetters of dislike and like Now you have the whole world to play with Add a bright kindly light and unimpeded Your … More Dharma Poem: Unimpeded
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In this 4-hour immersive experience, practitioners will be guided through embodied meditations and self-inquiry exercises to: Awaken and strengthen the 4 Foundations of Mindfulness and 5 Spiritual Faculties; Deepen skillful understanding of their relationship to privilege, power and oppression; Move toward skillful and sustainable action to cultivate justice, liberation and…
This year’s DAY OF MINDFULNESS with Jack Lawlor will be hosted at the Howell Nature Center on Saturday, October 27th, 9:30 am to 4:30 pm, as part of the Mitten in the Mitten Retreat (details below the image). For those interested in only attending the DOM (10/27): Dharma teacher Jack Lawlor will offer meditation, a … More 2018 Day of Mindfulness + Metta in the Mitten Retreat
