Skip to content
The Dewdrop Logo

The Dewdrop

read deep, breathe easy

  • Poetry
  • Book Bits
  • OTHER SECTIONS
    • Featured Writing
    • All About Love
    • Why I Write
    • Way-Seeking Mind
    • Micro Gallery
    • Sutras
    • Koans
  • Newsletter
  • ABOUT
    • Contact
    • Submissions
    • Work With Us
    • About The Dewdrop: Who We Are
  • SUPPORT

Tag: Buddha

Billy Collins
Poetry

Billy Collins – Shoveling Snow With Buddha

November 30, 2022December 1, 2022 Vanessa Able

Collins' outlandish and endearing image of the Buddha's wholehearted snow shoveling, with thoughts of hot chocolate and an imminent game of cards.

Tagged Buddha, Buddhism, Humor, Practice, sacred, snow, winter, work1 Comment
Buddha
Uncategorized

Discourse on the Absolute Truth

December 14, 2021December 13, 2021 Vanessa Able

According to Buddhist teaching, clinging to views is an empty and futile way of interfacing with the world.

Tagged Buddha, Buddhism, dogmatism, Elephant, Freedom, ideology, Sutras, sutta, truth, views, WisdomLeave a comment
Buddha Sabbasava Sutta
Sutra Excerpts, The Masters

The Full Awareness of Breathing

September 6, 2021September 11, 2021 Vanessa Able

In the Anapanasati Sutta, the Buddha presents a visceral kind of practice with the breath, that illuminates the experience of joy, calm and impermanence.

Tagged awareness, Breathing meditation, Buddha, Buddhism, calm, Joy, liberation, Meditation, presence, sutta, Understanding1 Comment
Buddha
Sutra Excerpts, Sutras, The Masters

The Buddha’s Last Teaching: Be Your Own Island, Your Own Refuge

August 9, 2021August 9, 2021 Vanessa Able

The Buddha's final words of advice to his students before he died were to take refuge in the dharma and in themselves.

Tagged Advice, Buddha, Death, dharma, island, Mahaparinibbanasutta, refuge, responsibility, teachingLeave a comment
Guo Gu
Interview

Body Like a Rag, Mind Like a Mirror – Guo Gu Breaking Through Boundaries

August 4, 2021September 22, 2021 Vanessa Able

Chan teacher Guo Gu on silent illumination, punk music and his teacher Sheng Yen's legacy.

Tagged Body, Buddha, Buddhism, Chan, Culture, embodiment, experiencing, interview, language, Mind, Poetry, punk, Silent Illumination, Vimalakirti, Yongjia Xuanjue, Zen1 Comment
Eihei Dogen
Book Bits, The Masters, Zen

Dogen’s Seal of the Ocean: How Meditation and Life Can Flow Like Water

July 6, 2021August 13, 2021 Vanessa Able

Japanese Zen Master Eihei Dogen invokes an oceanic state of non-identification as something that expresses the true Dharma, or our true nature, according to the teachings of Buddha.

Tagged authenticity, being, Buddha, depth, Meditation, ocean, oceanic, sea, seal, Shobogenzo, Source, Water, Zen1 Comment
Lion
Sutras

When the Lion Roars

January 25, 2021January 25, 2021 Vanessa Able

An ancient Buddhist teaching and sutra about the power of the call back to the truth of ourselves.

Tagged Buddha, devas, dharma, disruption, lion, power, teaching, transformationLeave a comment
Jack Kornfield
Book Bits

The Path Through the Gateless Gate

January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 Vanessa Able

Jack Kornfield teaches that too much emphasis on 'special' experiences might take us away from the practice of opening up to what is in front of us.

Tagged Awakening, Buddha, ecstasy, effortlessness, Enlightenment, Experience, Gateless Gate, Mystical, Practice, present moment1 Comment
Sharon Salzberg
Book Bits

Better Than We Think: Directing Self-Love

November 30, 2020November 30, 2020 Vanessa Able

Sharon Salzberg on why the richest way of loving means starting with our very selves.

Tagged Buddha, Buddhism, guilt, Kindness, love, Loving-Kindness, Meditation, metta, remorse, self-love, TheravadaLeave a comment
Bodhidharma
Book Bits, The Masters, Zen

Bodhidharma’s Bloodstream Sermon

November 23, 2020November 27, 2020 Vanessa Able

Bodhidharma's fundamental teaching was that the Buddha can only be found in the mind since its essence is mind itself.

Tagged Bodhidharma, Buddha, Chan, dhyana, Enlightenment, Meditation, Mind, self-awareness, true nature, ZenLeave a comment

Posts navigation

Older posts
Support The Dewdrop
SIGN UP FOR EMAILS

TOP POSTS

  • Mary Oliver - Wild Geese
    Mary Oliver - Wild Geese
  • Turning Words With Hozan Alan Senauke
    Turning Words With Hozan Alan Senauke
  • Bankei and the Unborn
    Bankei and the Unborn
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • I Am Not Seaworthy - Toni Morrison
    I Am Not Seaworthy - Toni Morrison
  • Pablo Neruda - The Sea
    Pablo Neruda - The Sea
  • Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
    Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
  • What is True Freedom?
    What is True Freedom?
  • Thich Nhat Hanh on the Elements of True Love
    Thich Nhat Hanh on the Elements of True Love
  • Issa - This Dewdrop World
    Issa - This Dewdrop World

- BOOK BITS -

  • 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.
  • David Hinton
    What Can the Earth’s Crisis Teach Us About Ourselves? David Hinton’s Tao of Ecology
    David Hinton on what Taoism can teach us about Deep Ecology and how we can reconnect with our own ancient Paleolithic roots.
  • Virginia Woolf
    ‘When the Lights of Health Go Down’- Virginia Woolf on Being Ill
    Virginia Woolf on our relationship to illness, its potential spiritual value, and the mysterious intelligence of the body.


- POETRY-

  • Ronán P. Berry – On The Mountain of Forth
    "On The Mountain of Forth" is Irish poet Ronán P. Berry's anthem of the natural and wild world and what could even be considered enlightenment.
  • Regina Dilgen – Meditation on Thomas Merton’s Hermitage
    Regina Dilgen's exquisite "Meditation on Thomas Merton's Hermitage" imagines American monastic Thomas Merton worn by grief and inspired to write.
  • Orhan Pamuk
    Orhan Pamuk on Writing By Hand
    Orhan Pamuk's hand-writing habit hasn't budged, despite the conventions of our time.
  • Mike Christie – Knock Knock Knock
    A narrative of a woodpecker at work on a tree expands to the oneness of all things in Mike Christie's "Knock Knock Knock".
  • Quincy Gray McMichael – After Portugal
    In the vivid "After Portugal", the simple act of doing a load of laundry after returning home from time abroad brings back moonlit memories
The Dewdrop
Proudly powered by WordPress Theme: Dara.
 

Loading Comments...