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Tag: Meditation

Featured Poetry

Tsultrim Nyi-O – Silence

April 7, 2024April 6, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Buddhist practitioner and chaplain Tsultrim Nyi-O offers readers a selection of Zen haiku tidbits, which leave us transcendent.

Tagged Buddhism, buddhist philosophy, Buddhist poetry, Haiku, Meditation, Poem, poet, Poetry, Silence, Stillness, Zen2 Comments
Danusha Lameris
Poetry

Danusha Laméris – Stone

April 3, 2024April 3, 2024 Vanessa Able

Danusha Lameris' poem Stone invokes the turning towards a way of being, a focused, cherishing attending.

Tagged attention, being, letting go, listening, Meditation, nature, Poem, Poetry, reminder, renunciationLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Kashiana Singh – In Samadhi

March 31, 2024March 27, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

The Dewdrop is honored to publish the meditative haiku sequence "In Samadhi" by poet and speaker Kashiana Singh.

Tagged awareness, Haiku, Meditation, pause, Poem, poet, Poetry, Stillness, ZenLeave a comment
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
Oren Jay Sofer
Book Bits

‘The Only Way To Be Free’ – Oren Jay Sofer on Why Mindfulness Is More Than Just Paying Attention

November 29, 2023December 20, 2023 Vanessa Able

How continuous awareness can be a catalyst for radical personal freedom and transformation.

Tagged awareness, Buddha, Buddhism, concentration, Freedom, Meditation, mindfulness, self awareness, transformation1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Nancy Hamilton – The Door Opened

August 27, 2023August 24, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Nancy Hamilton's enlightening poem "The Door Opened" revels in the glory of openness and emptiness, and overcoming illusions.

Tagged barriers, boundaries, Buddhism, liberation, Meditation, openness, Poem, poet, Poetry, Zen2 Comments
Featured Poetry

Christian Ward – Heron, Returning

April 2, 2023March 30, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Christian Ward's heron, which serves as his poem's centerpiece, weathers the turmoil of life, awaiting much-needed change.

Tagged change, discipline, distraction, Meditation, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, prayer, Stillness, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Regina Dilgen – Meditation on Thomas Merton’s Hermitage

March 12, 2023March 9, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Regina Dilgen's exquisite "Meditation on Thomas Merton's Hermitage" imagines American monastic Thomas Merton worn by grief and inspired to write.

Tagged Death, grief, Inspiration, loss, Meditation, mortality, Poem, poet, Poetry, sorrow, Thomas Merton, winter2 Comments
Featured Poetry

Swetha Amit – The Tea Prayer

November 13, 2022November 9, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Swetha Amit's "The Tea Prayer" is a meditation on the routine and ritualistic simplicity of making and savoring a cup of hot green tea.

Tagged green tea, Meditation, Poem, poet, Poetry, routine, senses, sensory, tea, Tea Ceremony, tea preperationLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Lina Buividavičiūtė – A Housewife’s Opus Magnum

October 30, 2022October 27, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Lithuanian poet Lina Buividavičiūtė's prose poem "A Housewife's Opus Magnum" reveals a holiness discovered in simplicity and domesticity.

Tagged domesticity, God, holiness, Meditation, Poem, poet, Poetry, prose poem, Simplicity, work, ZenLeave a comment

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