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Tag: Zen

Featured Poetry

Elisabeth Preston-Hsu – Kitsune Udon

March 13, 2022March 14, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Like a steaming bowl of delicious flavors, Elisabeth Preston-Hsu's "Kitsune Udon" is a recipe of mythology, Zen simplicity, and storytelling.

Tagged folklore, food, kitsune, myth, mythology, nourishment, peace, Poem, poet, Poetry, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Hiatt O’Connor – Waiting for Gravity

March 6, 2022March 3, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Seemingly a lesson in simplicity and silence, Hiatt O'Connor's wonderful poem Waiting for Gravity is, in fact, a work of layers.

Tagged complexity, Light, Meditation, peace, Poem, poet, Poetry, Quiet, Simplicity, Stillness, tension, Tranquility, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Suzanne Eaton – windchimes

February 27, 2022February 21, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Suzanne Eaton's windchimes is a meditative discourse on wind and sound, and the tranquility and openness manifested by the simple act of stillness.

Tagged awareness, Gratitude, Meditation, nature, peace, Poem, poet, Poetry, Quiet, Stillness, Tranquility, wind, Zen1 Comment
Thich Nhat Hanh
Book Bits

The First Door of Liberation: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Vision of Emptiness and Interbeing

January 25, 2022January 25, 2022 Vanessa Able

Rather than signifying a lack or a void, Thich Nhat Hanh took emptiness to be a state of inextricable and fundamental interconnectedness.

Tagged Buddhism, Emptiness, existence, Experience, interbeing, nothingness, separate self, sunyata, Zen1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Spence Pfleiderer – A Simple Morning Prayer

January 16, 2022January 16, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

The aptly-named A Simple Morning Prayer pleads for understanding and love, for connection and illumination in a handful of terse lines. This piece is evidence that a poem need not be complex or long-winded to be a thing of authentic beauty and power.

Tagged connection, God, illumination, love, morning, Poem, poet, Poetry, prayer, Simplicity, Understanding, ZenLeave a comment
Vanessa Able
Featured Poetry

Vanessa Able – Bhakti

December 5, 2021December 8, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

In her beautiful poem Bhakti, Vanessa Able gives life and imagery to action--specifically the action of the devotional philosophy of Bhakti yoga, which is focused on the love for a personal deity.

Tagged Advice, beauty, Devotion, Four Yogas, life, love, Poem, poet, Poetry, wonder, yoga, Zen4 Comments
Featured Poetry

Gay Guard-Chamberlin – “Do You Have Any Advice for Those of Us Just Starting Out?”

November 28, 2021November 28, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

In “Do You Have Any Advice for Those of Us Just Starting Out?”, Gay Guard-Chamberlin poses a common question with the poem's title, which is then succinctly answered in the four brief lines that comprise the poem itself.

Tagged Advice, Devotion, Micropoetry, Poem, poet, Poetry, Simplicity, Writing, Zen4 Comments
Jane Hirshfield
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Jane Hirshfield – All The Difficult Hours and Minutes

September 22, 2021September 22, 2021 Vanessa Able

In Hirshfield's poem, calamity turns to calmness when things turn into themselves, a principle that goes to the heart of transformative practice.

Tagged Buddhism, calamity, calmness, difficulty, humanity, Meditation, Poetry, Suffering, time, ZenLeave a comment
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen – Roshi

September 2, 2021September 2, 2021 Vanessa Able

Leonard Cohen on how the teachings of a Zen master can manifest in unexpected and obtuse ways.

Tagged music, Poetry, roshi, teaching, ZenLeave a comment
Dainin Katagiri
Book Bits

You Have To Say Something: Dainin Katagiri on What To Say When There Is Nothing To Say

August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 Vanessa Able

According to Katagiri, it can be difficult to find the words or modality to enter back into the world from a place of silence, but it is something we ultimately have to do.

Tagged 100-foot pole, buddha nature, Emptiness, Silence, words, ZenLeave a comment

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