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Tag: calmness

Featured Poetry

Kathryn Kimball – 432Hz

January 28, 2024January 27, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

With Zen-like precision and sparseness, poet Kathryn Kimball leads us down currents of time, connection, and calmness with her poem "432Hz".

Tagged calmness, frequency, Interconnectedness, Meditation, music, Poem, poet, Poetry, time, vibration, Zen2 Comments
Jane Hirshfield
Poetry

Jane Hirshfield – All The Difficult Hours and Minutes

September 22, 2021March 8, 2023 Vanessa Able

In Hirshfield's poem, calamity turns to calmness when things turn into themselves, a principle that goes to the heart of transformative practice.

Tagged Buddhism, calamity, calmness, difficulty, humanity, Meditation, Poetry, Suffering, time, ZenLeave a comment

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- BOOK BITS -

  • Rick Ruben
    “Expanding the Universe” – Rick Rubin on Awareness in Creativity
    What is the role of awareness in creativity and how can we cultivate it to make our world a bigger and clearer place?
  • Thich Nhat Hanh
    The First Door of Liberation: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Vision of Emptiness and Interbeing
    Rather than signifying a lack or a void, Thich Nhat Hanh took emptiness to be a state of inextricable and fundamental interconnectedness.
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  • Shunryu Suzuki
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    The importance of keeping an empty mind for savoring the present and expressing ourselves in our most authentic way.
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- POETRY-

  • A Year of Kō: 5th Sekki
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    Emerging poet Maureen Martinez slows us down for a moment with her hybrid prose poem "How to Pass as a Woman of Faith".
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    Like a fistful of sand scattered across white space, poet Jeremy Giles leans into experimentalism in his poem "Grass Field We Named Beach".
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    4th Sekki poems by JOYCE RITCHIE, DIANA LIVI and VIRGINIA FOLGER
  • Lily Tobias – Fennel
    In her poem "Fennel", Michigan poet Lily Tobias awakens our senses in the quiet hush of morning, and takes us to the temple.
 

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