Blessed are the flowers — they have no wrist watches, they just know it’s time and they are here. Perhaps the pace of nature can remind us to take a “mindful gap” and just BE for one conscious breath. Each week I enjoy finding and sharing a poem to highlight our weekly class themes:
Ordinary Moments
Threading the Needle (Larry Schug)
Tea Tasting – excerpt (Adyashanti, My Secret is Silence, Open Gate Sangha)
…People go looking far and wide
for the Buddha’s enlightenment
but I just sip my tea
and my tea swallows me…
In Early Evening (Kirsten Dierking)
Awakened Heart
There is an Old Woman Inside Me (Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer)
Today’s Meditation (Danna Faulds)
This Ordinary Spring Day (Danna Faulds)
The Moment (Marie Howe)
Meeting the Light Completely (Jane Hirshfield)
Inner Listening
Feather at Midday (Sister Dang Nghiem)
What’s In the Temple (Tom Barrett)
Equanimity
The Love Field (Danna Faulds, Feb 14, 2024)
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