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Monthly Archive for September, 2010

The inspiration today is from the meditative walk our group did on Tuesday, Sept 21st, from the United Nations to Times Square.  A unique experience, in honor of  the International Day of Peace, that I attempted to capture in this poem. Peace Making Isn’t Easy Walking the busy streets of New York, I realized Peace [...]

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It is always astonishing how love can strike. No context is love proof, no convention or    commitment impervious. Even a lifestyle which is perfectly insulated, where the personality is controlled, all the days ordered and all actions in sequence, can to its own dismay find that an unexpected spark has landed; it begins to smoulder [...]

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The roaring waterfall is the Buddha’s golden mouth. The mountains in the distance are his pure luminous body. How many thousands of poems have flowed through me tonight! And tomorrow I won’t be able to repeat even one word. By Su Tung-p’o, included in the “The Enlightened Heart” Anthology by Stephen Mitchell

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MondayLove is inspired  from Paolo Coelho‘s The Alchemist. It is from the scene in the desert when the boy communicates with the various elements in the pursuit of turning himself into the wind (for more you have to read the book!). This specific part is from the conversation between the boy and the Sun: “Well, [...]

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Happy Friday.  This morning I was going through Paulo Coelho‘s The Alchemist because I wanted to read again the scene in the desert when the  boy becomes the wind.  In search of this scene, the following dialogue among the Alchemist, the boy and his heart, became the inspiration for this entry. “Listen to your heart.  [...]

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Happy Friday.  Today’s inspiration is from Lao-Tzu and the view of Puget Sound from Coupeville, a darling place on Whidbey Island, WA Some say that my teaching is nonsense. Others call it lofty but impractical. But to those who have looked inside themselves, this nonsense makes perfect sense. And to those who put it into [...]

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