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Taisen Deshimaru
Book Bits

“Penetrate Life” – Taisen Deshimaru on Living in the Here and Now

June 11, 2024June 11, 2024 Vanessa Able

The grandson of a retired samurai, Deshimaru took a lot of wisdom from the principles of martial arts.

Tagged bushido, concentration, energy, focus, Kodo Sawaki, martial arts, Moon, Practice, river, samurai, Taisen Deshimaru, zazen, ZenLeave a comment
Kahlil Gibran
Poetry

Kahlil Gibran – Fear

January 19, 2023January 16, 2023 Vanessa Able

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.

Tagged becoming, Death, faith, Fear, ocean, Poetry, river, trust3 Comments
Featured Poetry

Nadir Feroz – Doused

November 20, 2022November 18, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Penned while he sat by the Nile River, Nadir Feroz's "Doused" carries the themes of time, eternity, light, and mortality in its currents.

Tagged current, eternity, mortality, Nile, Poem, poet, Poetry, river, Sudan, time2 Comments
Featured Poetry

Gina Ferrara – Along Its Course

July 17, 2022July 14, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

New Orleans poet Gina Ferrara writes a poem of awareness, inevitability, permanence, and nature, the lines of which are gathered around the shores of a sluggish river.

Tagged awareness, nature, outdoors, Poem, poet, Poetry, river, rivers, Water, watersLeave a comment

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- BOOK BITS -

  • Don’t Waste Suffering: Ramiro López Larroy on Opening the Doors of Liberation
    How can we use the things that give us difficulty in our lives to learn and grow, rather than avoiding them, or trying to push them away?
  • 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.


- POETRY-

  • Shaomei Yu – The Closed Door
    Chinese-American poet Shaomei Yu reflects on loss and transition with Zen-like sparseness in her poem "The Closed Door".
  • Claudia Kessel – Samsara
    In her epic "Samsara", poet Claudia Kessel leans the ancient tenants of Buddhism against the gritty reality of the 21st Century.
  • A Year of Kō: 16th Sekki
    16th Sekki poems by COLEMAN DAVIS, MADISON WILLIAMS and SHAOMEI YU
  • Bob Rama – Ascetic Aesthetics
    Translator and poet Bob Rama shines a little candlelight on ascetic renunciation in his pleasingly-titled poem "Ascetic Aesthetics".
  • Emily Tong – Girlhood Ghazal
    Using the ancient poetic form of the ghazal, Asian-American poet Emily Tong searches for home in her "Girlhood Ghazal".
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