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Tag: oneness

Featured Poetry

Diana Button – At the Watering Hole

August 17, 2025August 16, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Unity and connection are the revelations inherent in "At the Watering Hole", a poem by spiritual poet Diana Button.

Tagged Buddhism, connection, doubt, illusion, inclusion, oneness, Poem, poet, Poetry, Self, self-doubt, UnityLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Mathieu Cailler – After the Last Human Died

December 22, 2024December 20, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Mathieu Cailler's prose poem "After the Last Human Died" is in fact an ode to togetherness and reconnection.

Tagged connection, Death, destruction, healing, humanity, life, loss, nature, oneness, Poem, poet, Poetry, reconnection, togetherness1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Mike Christie – Knock Knock Knock

March 5, 2023March 2, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

A narrative of a woodpecker at work on a tree expands to the oneness of all things in Mike Christie's "Knock Knock Knock".

Tagged community, connection, Interconnectedness, nature, oneness, Poem, poet, Poetry, Unity, UniverseLeave a comment
Alan Watts
Book Bits

Life Includes All Opposites – Alan Watts on the Oneness of the Tao

December 15, 2022December 15, 2022 Vanessa Able

The psychology of acceptance and the understanding 'that there is only one ultimate reality or source of activity in the universe.'

Tagged acceptance, Chinese Zen, oneness, Taoism, The Tao, Zen2 Comments
Featured Poetry

Nicole Grace – One Note

May 22, 2022May 15, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Nicole Grace's "One Note" is a sensory exploration of contemplation, alive with natural and meditative imagery.

Tagged connection, harmony, Interconnectedness, Meditation, nature, Om, oneness, Poem, poet, Poetry, prayer, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Marsha Warren Mittman – No Name

October 17, 2021October 13, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

With her poem No Name, Marsha Warren Mittman details the transition from urban to rural living, and coming to embrace and become one with new experiences.

Tagged acceptance, connection, emergence, Identity, Interconnectedness, Meditation, nature, oneness, Poem, Poetry, self-acceptance, transformation6 Comments
Featured Poetry

Rebecca Ramsden – Be Thou My Vision

October 10, 2021October 12, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

In Be Thou My Vision, Rebecca Ramsden reminds us that poetry and holiness can be found anywhere, and in anybody.

Tagged divine, divinity, holiness, hymns, oneness, peace, Poem, Poetry, Quiet, revelation, Understanding4 Comments
Shunryu Suzuki
Book Bits

Shunryu Suzuki’s Waterfall – On Separation and Death

August 10, 2020August 10, 2020 Vanessa Able

When a human life comes into being, a unique form comes together, like a drop of water when it is separated from the wholeness of the river as it hits a rock or falls down a waterfall.

Tagged big mind, Emptiness, essence, feeling, life-and-death, Mind, Nirvana, oneness, realization, separation, truth, Waterfall, wholeness7 Comments

TOP POSTS

  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
    Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Walt Whitman - O Me! O Life!
    Walt Whitman - O Me! O Life!
  • Barbara Kingsolver - How to Do Absolutely Nothing
    Barbara Kingsolver - How to Do Absolutely Nothing
  • How We Live Is How We Die: Pema Chödrön on Preparing for Death Here and Now
    How We Live Is How We Die: Pema Chödrön on Preparing for Death Here and Now
  • Shitou's Song of the Grass-Roof Hermitage
    Shitou's Song of the Grass-Roof Hermitage
  • The Dexterous Butcher - Zhuangzi
    The Dexterous Butcher - Zhuangzi
  • The Ground is Always Shifting - Pema Chodron
    The Ground is Always Shifting - Pema Chodron
  • Gurdjieff and The Two Rivers
    Gurdjieff and The Two Rivers

- BOOK BITS -

  • 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.
  • Ray Bradbury
    Running After Loves – Ray Bradbury on Fostering Hunger in Writing
    Finding the truth of our authentic passions is the key to forming the foundations of a writing practice


- POETRY-

  • Lawrence Bridges – Trees of Ojai
    Poet Lawrence Bridges once again shows readers of The Dewdrop how Zen simplicity and awareness can be a sacred thing.
  • A Year of Kō: 7th Sekki
    7th Sekki poems by JOSEPH PALMER, FRAN SCOTT and ELLIOT DIAMOND
  • Francis Weeks – Taho Buddha
    "Taho Buddha" by poet Francis Weeks is a minimalist poem which explores a pivotal moment in Nichiren Buddhism.
  • Regina Gort-Betances – (Mother) Bear
    Regina Gort-Betances' "(Mother) Bear" is a wild and mournful study of loss and grief, written on a canvas of bone, blood, and root.
  • A Year of Kō: 6th Sekki
    6th Sekki poems by MADISON WILLIAMS, JOSEPH PALMER and COLEMAN DAVIS

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