Shen Zhanshi Neigong
ALIVENESS
Each morning at dawn, before I do anything else, I step onto the balcony looking to the East. The air is always fresh and quiet, having drifted down overnight from the flanks of Black Combe that rises behind our home.…
Laba Raymond
THE FOURTH SIGN OF THE ZODIAC (PART 3)
“I know, you never intended to be in this world.But you’re in it all the same. So why not get started immediately. I mean, belonging to it.There is so much to admire, to weep over. And to write music or…
The art of spiritual practice, the way of practice in everyday life.
“For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.” – Rainer Maria Rilke If love…
“The Stranger who was Your Self”
LOVE AFTER LOVE by Derek Walcott The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You…
SIMPLICITY ~ THE NEXT STAGE OF MY RAMBLING JOURNEY
“Let the beauty we love be what we do.” – Rumi With the ups and downs of my life, I have gone from having a lot to having a little. From being in love to being alone. From carrying the…
Ceremony a precursor to Action!
“Remember you’re going to ceremony, whilst living in the world.” Ceremony: late 14c., cerymonye, “a religious observance, a solemn rite”, from Old French: ceremonie and directly from Medieval Latin: ceremonia, from Latin: caerimonia “holiness; sacredness; awe; reverent rite; sacred ceremony”.…