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Shunryu Suzuki
Book Bits

Buddhism’s Most Basic Teaching: Everything Changes

April 19, 2021April 19, 2021 Vanessa Able

Shunryu Suzuki on our inability to accept the truth that we and everything around us are in a state of constant flux.

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Erich Von Hungen
Featured

Erich von Hungen – The Moment

May 21, 2020May 21, 2020 Vanessa Able

The pinpoint perspective of the present moment can feel so sharp but ultimately always impossible to fathom and out of our reach. As Erich von Hungen writes, it is simultaneously hard and soft, early and late, tiny and all-encompassing 'like a pocket-sized Big Bang.'

Tagged duration, Emptiness, impermanence, moment, nothingness, present, Silence, time, transienceLeave a comment
edna st vincent millay
Poetry

Edna St. Vincent Millay – “When You, That at This Moment Are to Me”

May 13, 2020May 13, 2020 Vanessa Able

This sonnet by American poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay is addressed to a lover and to the latent sense of impermanence and loss built in to all moments when one becomes conscious of great love or great happiness.

Tagged Death, Heart, impermanence, love, pathos, sonnet, transienceLeave a comment
Heidi Woo
Featured, Featured Poetry

Heidi Woo – The Heart of Our Home

April 1, 2020April 1, 2020 Vanessa Able

The Heart of Our Home is a poem about moving one's life and a meditation on building a new life in a new place that touches upon themes of nostalgia, renewal, and hope

Tagged home, Immigration, moving, transience2 Comments
Arthur Sze
American Poetry, Poetry

Arthur Sze – First Snow

February 5, 2020February 5, 2020 Vanessa Able

Arthur Sze's postmodern poetic style includes elements of Taoist and Zen philosophy written in a deeply observational style. Influenced by William Carlos Williams and Chinese poets like Bei Dao, Arthur Sze's work can be a difficult but rewarding read.

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