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Tag: Awakening

Featured Poetry

Bethany Reid – Morning at Glen Cove

April 30, 2023April 28, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Like the Psalm that opens her poem, Bethany Reid invites us to praise and rejoice with her poem "Morning at Glen Cove".

Tagged animals, awaken, Awakening, dawn, morning, Morning Poem, nature, nature writing, Poem, poet, Poetry, praise, waking, wildlifeLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Ellen White Rook – On Waking

January 29, 2023January 29, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Here at The Dewdrop, we can't help but to be reminded of the late great Mary Oliver when reading Ellen White Rook's tremendous "On Waking".

Tagged Awakening, dreaming, Dreams, mystery, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, seeking, Sleep, WaterLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Emily Fernandez – Please begin

January 8, 2023January 5, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

The Dewdrop's first Featured Poem of 2023, is an offering from poet Emily Fernandez. It serves as a perfect introduction to the year.

Tagged awaken, Awakening, beginnings, future, mindfulness, past, Poem, poet, Poetry, reflection, time4 Comments
Christian Dillo
Interview, Why I Write

Why I Write: Christian Dillo

September 23, 2022September 23, 2022 Vanessa Able

Christian Dillo on a contemporary Zen approach to awakening and what meaningful transformation actually looks like.

Tagged aliveness, Awakening, Buddhism, effort, psychotherapy, Qigong, right effort, Suffering, Taoism, transformation, western philosophy, ZenLeave a comment
Bayou
Way-Seeking Mind

Gully and Bayou

January 18, 2022January 25, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY NEIL ELLIS ORTS This farm boy wandered the acres of woods and explored the gully. I sat under the cedar that grew on a high bank, roots exposed, waiting for the right number of rains to let go.

Tagged Awakening, biography, childhood, God, home, memory, youthLeave a comment
Bat
Way-Seeking Mind

Sunset Meditation

November 8, 2021November 8, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY JOHN BRANTINGHAM Sunset comes late in High Sierra Summers, and by the time it does, I’m usually done for the day.

Tagged Awakening, beauty, centering, here and now, Meditation, mountains, nature, peace, presence, sunsetLeave a comment
Way-Seeking Mind

My Backspaces

October 19, 2021October 18, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY CHARLENE MOSKAL As I age I find I can no longer enter certain rooms. I see backspaces inhabited by specters of a world fading into my past.

Tagged age, Awakening, choice, memory, reflection, truth, WisdomLeave a comment
Morning Toast
Way-Seeking Mind

Morning Toast

September 28, 2021September 28, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY VINCENT PUZICK I remember the smell of toast. I was in the middle of my morning minutes of Transcendental Meditation when my mother got home from her graveyard shift at the hospital.

Tagged addiction, adolescence, Awakening, childhood, Meditation, memory, morning, motherLeave a comment
Annie Dillard
Book Bits

This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?

May 21, 2021May 21, 2021 Vanessa Able

Annie Dillard celebrates humanity by taking the widest view of its activities, hopes, dreams and values. She then asks, what would we really do with this new, expanded perspective?

Tagged Awakening, conditioned thinking, Culture, Inspiration, life, perspective, This precious life, values, WisdomLeave a comment
Milarepa
The Masters, Tibetan Texts

Milarepa’s Song of Transiency and Delusion

May 3, 2021May 3, 2021 Vanessa Able

Milarepa is a much-loved figure in the Tibetan tradition, renowned for his songs that expound the teaching of the Buddha and his own dharmic worldview.

Tagged Awakening, delusion, dharma, impermanence, milarepa, Tibetan buddhism, transience1 Comment

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TOP POSTS

  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • Letting Go of Hope - Pema Chodron
    Letting Go of Hope - Pema Chodron
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark
    Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark
  • Sahar Fathi - All-the-time Home
    Sahar Fathi - All-the-time Home
  • Deneen Fendig and Duncan Trussell Talk About Active Dying
    Deneen Fendig and Duncan Trussell Talk About Active Dying
  • Mary Oliver - Wild Geese
    Mary Oliver - Wild Geese
  • What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
    What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
  • Ursula le Guin and the Importance of Imagination
    Ursula le Guin and the Importance of Imagination
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    Tacey M. Atsitty - Anasazi

- BOOK BITS -

  • Tangen Harada Roshi
    Seeing Into the Reality of Emptiness
    Zen Master Tangen Harada Roshi on how understanding the truth of emptiness can reveal Original Mind.
  • Susan Bauer-Wu
    The Problem With Business As Usual – On Interconnectedness and the Climate Crisis
    Inspired by the work of the Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg, Susan Bauer-Wu's book is her personal expression of concern for the earth.
  • Orhan Pamuk
    Orhan Pamuk on Writing By Hand
    Orhan Pamuk's hand-writing habit hasn't budged, despite the conventions of our time.
  • Pema Chodron
    How We Live Is How We Die: Pema Chödrön on Preparing for Death Here and Now
    Pema Chödrön on what the Tibetan approach to living and dying can teach us about liberation in the present moment.
  • Barbara Brown Taylor
    The Path that Goes Nowhere – Barbara Brown Taylor on the Practice of Labyrinth Walking
    Barbara Brown Taylor reflects on her own experience of Labyrinth-walking and the significance of the path without a destination.


- POETRY-

  • Sahar Fathi – All-the-time Home
    Iranian-American poet Sahar Fathi offers a discourse on longing and nostalgia with her incredibly poignant poem "All-the-time Home".
  • Corinne Hughes – Cullen Island, Anacortes
    In "Cullen Island, Anacortes" poet Corinne Hughes reveals brash and radiant liberation from the unwelcome masculine darknesses of the past.
  • Christine Andersen – Breaking the Rules
    Christine Andersen's "Breaking the Rules" reveals the release and healing to be found blooming and flowing in the wild places of the earth.
  • Amanda Niamh Dawson – Prayer for a Mantis
    An encounter with a praying mantis on a doorstep becomes a lesson in compassion and gratitude in Amanda Niamh Dawson's "Prayer for a Mantis".
  • Betsy Fogelman Tighe – My Spiritual Practice
    Through the lens of nature, poet Betsy Fogelman Tighe reveals a practical and inclusive form of worship in "My Spiritual Practice".
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