Tag Archive for: poetry
Freedom within the Dimensions of Silent Retreat Practice
Mind-Body, Mindful Livingby Janet Solyntjes // Do you associate the practice of mindfulness meditation with freedom? How is freedom discovered within the form of a meditation retreat? This article…
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Creative ExpressionBy Katharine Kaufman // Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not…
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Creative Expression, Life at SMCPhoto: © 2016 Richard A. Swaback Spread-your-wings, oh beautiful Jaybird! Placing seed outside…
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Creative Expression, Life at SMC, NatureHello world, I wrote this poem last fall as a rumination on death and life, impermanence and transition. Now…
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Creative Expression, Mind-Body, NatureBy Elias Amidon Even though we humans live in nonduality, we experience the world with the two eyes of…
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Creative ExpressionBy Bhanu Kapil Some years ago, in India, I was walking down an ordinary residential street behind my mother’s…
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Mind-Body, Relationshipsby Keith Kachtick In Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke makes clear that a loving, romantic relationship…
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Creative Expression, Life at SMC"I met Rinpoche, Chogyam Trungpa, on a street corner in New York with my father, by accident." From…
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