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Tag: Gift

Way-Seeking Mind

This Is For You

June 16, 2022June 16, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY BETH SHELBURNE This is for you, he says, dropping the wet, glistening shell into my open palm like a coin.

Tagged Gift, Gratitude, love, mnemoactive objects, nature, Relationships, shells3 Comments
Featured Poetry

Samantha Wright – And Again

December 12, 2021December 10, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Samantha Wright's And Again is a fluid study of nature's blessings and miracles, and humanity's struggle to comprehend those humble quiet blessings.

Tagged Belief, blessing, Gift, greed, miracles, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, proof, rivers, Water1 Comment
Eihei Dogen
Book Bits, The Masters

As Long as Your Dewlike Human Life Lasts

March 30, 2021March 30, 2021 Vanessa Able

Dogen answers the questions of his students regarding monastic renunciation - how can one have faith that one's basic needs will be met?

Tagged Advice, Dogen, Gift, Monasticism, provision, renunciation, Shobogenzo, teaching, Zuimonki1 Comment
Lewis Hyde
Book Bits

To Possess Is To Give

December 3, 2020December 4, 2020 Vanessa Able

Lewis Hyde's book The Gift is a treatise on the power of the creative spirit and the dynamics of giving to transform the world.

Tagged begging, creativity, economy, Emptiness, flow, Gift, giving, mendicantLeave a comment
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- 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-

  • Ryan Diaz – A Vow of Poverty
    With the juxtaposition of piousness and sacredness to desire and indulgence, Ryan Diaz surprises us with his "A Vow of Poverty".
  • Joanne Alfano – Hope
    Positively radiant, Joanne Alfano's "Hope" is a poem that crashes through darkness with its opening lines like a clarion call.
  • Sheila Lynch-Benttinen – Equations
    Massachusetts poet Sheila Lynch-Benttinen's "Equations" is a work of heavy content, juxtaposed with simple elegance and sparseness.
  • Judy Mathews – After Weeks Without Rain in Northwest Ohio
    "After Weeks Without Rain in Northwest Ohio" by poet Judy Mathews is an offering or a prayer to the natural blessings of a place.
  • Erika Seshadri – Eviction Notice
    As gently as the narrator of the poem relocates a spider, Erika Seshadri carefully places her quiet poem "Eviction Notice" at our feet.
 

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