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Tag: Devotion

Essays

The Drawer Where I Keep My Doubts

October 15, 2025September 28, 2025 Vanessa Able

Some people organize their lives by goals. Others, by memories. I seem to organize mine by unfinished questions.

Tagged answers, clarity, clutter, Devotion, dialogue, doubts, drawer, honesty, Process, questions, resolution, unfinished2 Comments
Featured Poetry

Pamela Wax – Dear Mayor

August 31, 2025August 30, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

The prose poem "Dear Mayor" by Massachusetts poet Pamela Wax immerses us in layers of spiritual practice, grief, loss, and longing.

Tagged balance, Death, Devotion, grief, Longing, loss, Meditation, Poem, poet, Poetry, spiritual, Spiritual Practice, SpiritualityLeave a comment
Vanessa Able
Featured Poetry

Vanessa Able – Bhakti

December 5, 2021December 8, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

In her beautiful poem Bhakti, Vanessa Able gives life and imagery to action--specifically the action of the devotional philosophy of Bhakti yoga, which is focused on the love for a personal deity.

Tagged Advice, beauty, Devotion, Four Yogas, life, love, Poem, poet, Poetry, wonder, yoga, Zen4 Comments
Featured Poetry

Gay Guard-Chamberlin – “Do You Have Any Advice for Those of Us Just Starting Out?”

November 28, 2021November 28, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

In “Do You Have Any Advice for Those of Us Just Starting Out?”, Gay Guard-Chamberlin poses a common question with the poem's title, which is then succinctly answered in the four brief lines that comprise the poem itself.

Tagged Advice, Devotion, Micropoetry, Poem, poet, Poetry, Simplicity, Writing, Zen4 Comments

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  • Billy Collins - The Dead
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  • Nathan Hassall - Write a simple poem, my wife said, so I wrote a short one
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- BOOK BITS -

  • Don’t Waste Suffering: Ramiro López Larroy on Opening the Doors of Liberation
    How can we use the things that give us difficulty in our lives to learn and grow, rather than avoiding them, or trying to push them away?
  • 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.
  • Mike Travisano – Bob’s Tattoos
    A short story on the power of three simple words and how much they can mean and embody.
  • Shunryu Suzuki
    Sharing the Feeling: Zen Teacher Shunryu Suzuki on Becoming Ourselves
    The importance of keeping an empty mind for savoring the present and expressing ourselves in our most authentic way.


- POETRY-

  • Nathan Hassall – Write a simple poem, my wife said, so I wrote a short one
    Poet Nathan Hassall's "Write a simple poem, my wife said, so I wrote a short one" transcends the small confines of its verbiage into the enormity of universal divinity.
  • A Year of Kō: 17th Sekki
    17th Sekki poems by BOB RAMA, COLEMAN DAVIS and SHAOMEI YU
  • Shaomei Yu – The Closed Door
    Chinese-American poet Shaomei Yu reflects on loss and transition with Zen-like sparseness in her poem "The Closed Door".
  • Claudia Kessel – Samsara
    In her epic "Samsara", poet Claudia Kessel leans the ancient tenants of Buddhism against the gritty reality of the 21st Century.
  • A Year of Kō: 16th Sekki
    16th Sekki poems by COLEMAN DAVIS, MADISON WILLIAMS and SHAOMEI YU
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