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Tag: realization

David Whyte
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David Whyte – The Bell and the Blackbird

September 30, 2020September 2, 2021 Vanessa Able

The call of awakening can come in any form, even from something as simple as the voice of a blackbird, in David Whyte's poem, The Bell and the Blackbird.

Tagged 2020, Awakening, bell, meeting, nature, Poetry, realization, Self3 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

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  • Thich Nhat Hanh on the Elements of True Love
    Thich Nhat Hanh on the Elements of True Love
  • Running After Loves - Ray Bradbury on Fostering Hunger in Writing
    Running After Loves - Ray Bradbury on Fostering Hunger in Writing
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Cosmic Perspective
    Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Cosmic Perspective

- 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-

  • A Year of Kō: 4th Sekki
    4th Sekki poems by JOYCE RITCHIE, DIANA LIVI and VIRGINIA FOLGER
  • Lily Tobias – Fennel
    In her poem "Fennel", Michigan poet Lily Tobias awakens our senses in the quiet hush of morning, and takes us to the temple.
  • Roshi Joan Halifax and The Way of Haiku
    A collection of haiku offered by Roshi Joan Halifax.
  • A Year of Kō: 3rd Sekki
    3rd Sekki poems by COLEMAN DAVIS, LAILA BRAHMBHATT, WILLIAM KILGORE
  • Gary Keenan – Big Day
    Writing from the Colombian Andes, poet Gary Keenan's poem "Big Day" is a chaotic cacophony collapsing into the soft rosy amber of stillness.
 

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