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Category Archives: Retreat
Hafiz !
Hafiz ! Can it really be as simple as that ? Just love everyone in every direction always. When do you ever get a break from God ? 8 8 88 888 88888 88888888 8888888888888 … Continue reading
Posted in Love, Poetry & Free Verse, Retreat, Simple Living, Spirituality
Tagged God, Hafez, Hafiz, love, lovingkindness, Metta, poem, poetry, retreat, spirituality
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3:00 AM
3:00 AM wide awake thrashed by torment ’til head explodes with forgiveness ! x x xx xxx xxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Photo thanks to : http://sleepjunkies.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/exploding_head-200×200.jpg For an excellent current post on forgiveness: http://philosophadam.wordpress.com/2014/12/15/forgive-and-be-free-the-liberating-power-of-forgiveness/
Posted in Human Experience, Poetry & Free Verse, Retreat
Tagged dark night, forgive, forgiveness, insomnia, poem, poetry, radical honesty, spiritual, spiritual journey, Spiritual practice
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Ascend in Silence
Ascend in silence Ascend in silence rest in spacious sky-like awareness horizon to horizon no time…no lack…no effort. Descend into silence greet the menagerie untamed beasties roaming the wilds of an unowned mind. Stand as silence like the ubiquitous junipers … Continue reading
Five Mule Deer
Five mule deer Five mule deer poised and alert all but hidden behind the blind heads floating above a smoke grey frenzy of brush. Shining black pairs of eyes intently gazing toward the road something moving, drawing closer. Tall charcoal … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry & Free Verse, Retreat, Simple Living
Tagged flow, nature, poem, poetry, Rigpa, silence, silent, Zen
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White
prayer flags flap wildly five colors fade into an ocean of fog enveloped by clouds adrift from long lost mooring juniper forest, cactus and rock enshrouded in white the temple engulfed by opaque blanket of cloud White Tara laughs through … Continue reading
Posted in Human Experience, Poetry & Free Verse, Retreat, Simple Living
Tagged Garchen, Garchen Buddhist Institute, nature, outdoors, poem, poetry, retreat, White Tara
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Noble Silence, Noble Solitude
Noble Silence Silence gives one the space to notice one’s own thoughts. Silence puts one in touch with the reality of the heart, whatever it might be. Silence makes it easier to watch one’s actions. Silence protects one from oneself. … Continue reading
Retreat Refrigerator Reminder
Refrigerator Dharma This quote from Jigten Sumgon was prominently posted on the side of the refrigerator I was to use for 10 days. Passed this quote daily; read it numerous times. It resonates with experience here, perhaps also with you: … Continue reading
Silent Retreat Reading
Brought three books to read – actually more, but retreats are not really for reading, and am not sure until I arrive what book will draw attention. This retreat : Indestructible Innocence by A.H. Almaas Feed Your Demons by Tsultrim … Continue reading
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Tagged A H Almaas, books, Feed Your Demons, Hafiz, noble silence, poetry, silence, silent retreat, spiritual reading, Tsultrium Allione
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Silent Retreat at Garchen
Time for some mental health time-outs. This year’s choice: Garchen Buddhist Institute in Chino Valley, AZ; altitude of 4692 ft. (1) in the mountainous North Central region of the state. The Garchen Buddhist Institute stands on a group of rocky … Continue reading
Posted in Retreat
Tagged Garchen, Garchen Buddhist Institute, noble silence, retreat, retreat center, silence, silent retreat
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Silent Retreat 2014
Why retreat ? Only don’t know. No reason. Just have to. Just doing. Just. Silence calls, but not from elsewhere. Not doing beckons, but not from distance. It’s no-time to do nothing, to suffer the misery of the kleshas, to … Continue reading
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Tagged non-doing, poem, poetry, retreat, sanity, silence, silent retreat, spiritual retreat, unwinding, Zen
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