Mindful Musings Blog

Poems of Presence – Spring 2024

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)

 

Resilience

On Pain (Kahlil Gibran)

The Facts of Life (Pádraig Ó Tuama)

 

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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