Afghan-American poet Homa Mojadidi manifests the magnitude and all-encompassing power of reverence and divinity with her poem "Submission".
Tag: Emptiness
Wallace Stevens – The Snowman
A poem imbued with a sense of healing and strength cultivated over many seasons, enabling the capacity for wide-open looking and listening.
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.
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.
Lawrence Bridges – The Concert
Lawrence Bridge's "The Concert" concisely examines a breakdown of interconnectedness in an almost post-apocalyptic way.
Beatrice Szymkowiak – Cloudlessness
Poet Beatrice Szymkowiak's stark piece "Cloudlessness" feels as cold and desolate as the imagery it reveals to us.
A Good Hard Look in the Mirror
The use of mirrors for metaphors of awareness in the Zen tradition goes back as far as early Buddhist times.
David Capps – Tree (after Rothko, but not)
At play with immersion, vastness, and solitude, David Capps' "Tree (after Rothko, but not)" is a work inviting readers to explore emptiness.
Seeing Into the Reality of Emptiness
Zen Master Tangen Harada Roshi on how understanding the truth of emptiness can reveal Original Mind.
The Sacred Pulse of Night and Day
Deborah Eden Tull explores the experience of darkness and how it can be a transformative and expansive human experience.