The use of mirrors for metaphors of awareness in the Zen tradition goes back as far as early Buddhist times.
Tag: reflection
Rainer Maria Rilke – A Walk
In this short and inspiring poem, Rilke asks what beckons us towards ideal states and what value does the search provide?
Archibald Macleish – Ars Poetica
A reflection on the silence, stillness and powerful presence of poetry by one of the 21st century's leading modernist poets.
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.
Violeta Garcia-Mendoza – Seasonal Affective Disorder
As the Northern Hemisphere settles into another long cold winter, poet Violeta Garcia-Mendoza offers readers a rather appropriate piece about winter itself, and the gloom that so often seeps into the spirit with the frigid climate.
My Backspaces
BY CHARLENE MOSKAL As I age I find I can no longer enter certain rooms. I see backspaces inhabited by specters of a world fading into my past.
Carl Jung and The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man
Carl Jung knew that the sense of something important missing from our lives would eventually lead to the search for a path back into ourselves.
Matthew Kohut – White Ash
A reflection at the end of winter on the cycles of death and renewal.
The Moon in the Water, the Body in the Mirror
Samurai Yagyu Munenori uses the popular Zen image of the moon reflected in the water to explain its application in martial arts training.
‘Better to Light a Candle’ – The Healing Power of Vespers
Brother David Steindl-Rast hones in on a transcendental moment of the day which in the monastic tradition is a time of reflection and healing.