mindfulness Archives - The Dewdrop

The Dewdrop's first Featured Poem of 2023, is an offering from poet Emily Fernandez. It serves as a perfect introduction to the year.

Book Bits

Working With the Soul Nerve – Resmaa Menakem on Grounding Our Bodies

September 30, 2021September 30, 2021 Vanessa Able

Starting with the damage done by racism to human bodies, Resmaa Menakem presents a pragmatic approach to healing through the body.

Book Bits

What is Meditation? Shinzen Young on How to Deepen Our Focus

September 20, 2021September 20, 2021 Vanessa Able

Shinzen Young on the most basic principle of mindfulness meditation: the cultivation of focus that can be practiced at any moment of the day, during any activity.

Book Bits

Buddha On The Phone, Buddha Watching TV

February 15, 2021February 15, 2021 Vanessa Able

Thich Nhat Hanh offers advice on being our best selves on the phone, when watching TV and even when simply flipping a light switch.

Seeing Into the Reality of Emptiness
Zen Master Tangen Harada Roshi on how understanding the truth of emptiness can reveal Original Mind.
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 on Writing By Hand
Orhan Pamuk's hand-writing habit hasn't budged, despite the conventions of our time.
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.
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.

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

Tag: mindfulness

Emily Fernandez – Please begin

Working With the Soul Nerve – Resmaa Menakem on Grounding Our Bodies

What is Meditation? Shinzen Young on How to Deepen Our Focus

Buddha On The Phone, Buddha Watching TV