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Book Bits

‘An Appropriate Response’: Christian Dillo on the Nature of Buddhist Wisdom

October 10, 2022October 10, 2022 Vanessa Able

What is wisdom? How can what we know get in the way of true wisdom? How can we express wisdom in a chaotic and unpredictable world?

Tagged appropriate response, Buddhism, i don't know, negative space, not-knowing, presence, Wisdom, ZenLeave a comment
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Way-Seeking Mind

Sunset Meditation

November 8, 2021November 8, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY JOHN BRANTINGHAM Sunset comes late in High Sierra Summers, and by the time it does, I’m usually done for the day.

Tagged Awakening, beauty, centering, here and now, Meditation, mountains, nature, peace, presence, sunsetLeave a comment
Buddha Sabbasava Sutta
Sutra Excerpts, The Masters

The Full Awareness of Breathing

September 6, 2021September 11, 2021 Vanessa Able

In the Anapanasati Sutta, the Buddha presents a visceral kind of practice with the breath, that illuminates the experience of joy, calm and impermanence.

Tagged awareness, Breathing meditation, Buddha, Buddhism, calm, Joy, liberation, Meditation, presence, sutta, Understanding1 Comment
Anne Lamott
Book Bits

The Ecstasy of Paying Attention

December 11, 2020December 11, 2020 Vanessa Able

When we are looking, says Anne Lamott, really actively observing, then we are overriding our tendency towards interpreting and distorting the objects of our perception.

Tagged Advice, attention, awe, distortion, Gary Snyder, observation, presence, respect, reverence, WritingLeave a comment
close up photography of brown wasp
Way-Seeking Mind

The Fly Antecedent

October 1, 2020September 30, 2020 Vanessa Able

BY PATRICK BURR After climbing to the top of Bulamsan, a small peak in northeastern Seoul, I sat on a boulder and stared out from among the trees at the ivory city below the smog. 

Tagged contemplation, movement, peace, presence, StillnessLeave a comment
Hakuin
Japanese Texts, Teaching Poem, Texts

Hakuin’s Song of Zazen

August 23, 2020August 24, 2020 Vanessa Able

Hakuin's Song of Zazen is an encapsulation of the merits of meditation, in which he encourages the student to focus on the immediate experience of presence.

Tagged dharma, form, Hakuin, Meditation, presence, Rinzai, zazenLeave a comment
Tara Brach
Book Bits

Staying With the ‘Ouch’ – Tara Brach

April 20, 2020April 20, 2020 Vanessa Able

Why is self-acceptance so hard and self-criticism so deeply wired in us? Psychologist and teacher of meditation Tara Brach reminds us that self-love is one of the most neglected areas of our psychic landscapes.

Tagged acceptance, Fear, Happiness, love, pain, presence, self-acceptance, Suffering, truthLeave a comment
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TOP POSTS

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  • Pablo Neruda - The Sea
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- BOOK BITS -

  • 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.
  • David Hinton
    What Can the Earth’s Crisis Teach Us About Ourselves? David Hinton’s Tao of Ecology
    David Hinton on what Taoism can teach us about Deep Ecology and how we can reconnect with our own ancient Paleolithic roots.
  • Virginia Woolf
    ‘When the Lights of Health Go Down’- Virginia Woolf on Being Ill
    Virginia Woolf on our relationship to illness, its potential spiritual value, and the mysterious intelligence of the body.
  • Alan Watts
    Life Includes All Opposites – Alan Watts on the Oneness of the Tao
    The psychology of acceptance and the understanding 'that there is only one ultimate reality or source of activity in the universe.'
  • 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.


- POETRY-

  • Ellen White Rook – On Waking
    Here at The Dewdrop, we can't help but to be reminded of the late great Mary Oliver when reading Ellen White Rook's tremendous "On Waking".
  • David Cravens – American Zen
    David Cravens' epic poem "American Zen" counts as one of the more ambitious works ever published in The Dewdrop.
  • Kahlil Gibran
    Kahlil Gibran – Fear
    Kahlil Gibran's poem on the fear of dissipation is a call to faith, to trust in the oceanic nature of the life-manifesting force.
  • Will Simescu – Agrapha
    Will Simescu's "Agrapha" reveals a search for holiness, contrasting the gritty details of reality with imagery from the life of Christ.
  • Emily Fernandez – Please begin
    The Dewdrop's first Featured Poem of 2023, is an offering from poet Emily Fernandez. It serves as a perfect introduction to the year.
 

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