Avadhuta Gita Chapter 1, verse 39
...“Even my natural self appears to me as non-distinct from the supreme Self; it appears to be one and like space. How can there be meditator and meditation?”
beginning at the end of our und...
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Categories:
meditator, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Avadhuta Gita Chapter 1, Verse 26
...“As the self is filled by the Self, so is all filled continuously by you. There is no meditator or meditation.
Why does your mind meditate shamelessly?”
to behold its own reflection
li...
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Categories:
meditator, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Manzanita
...("Lone Pine", 2024, original pen and ink with encaustic mat)
Manzanita
Manzanita
atop a slight rise
forms a natural shrine
The place a person
could place an offering
or say a prayer...
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Categories:
meditator, blessing, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
Becoming No-Thing
...Meditator meditating in thought rested stillness
Identity yet is and with it carries beliefs and concepts
So sounds, images, light or subtle vibrations may manifest
In the background there...
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Categories:
meditator, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
A Far Cry
...A far cry; ascent, unless we decry
Fearful desires that makes loving heart sigh
Know, oh hermit, we are our tormentor
Both, the meek prisoner and fierce captor
Deaf to voice of conscience, as l...
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Categories:
meditator, muse,
Form: Rondeau
Bunny Hugger
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Life lover
Death mugger
Hope giver
Low sugar
Water chugger
Love lugger
Tree hugger
Silly bugger
Fun frolicker
Food fantasiser
Friend finder
Hug holder
Soft shouldered
Money shrugg...
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Categories:
meditator, beautiful, character, christian, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Slipping Into Slumber
...‘Eat when hungry, sleep when sleepy’, adage,
simple enough, for a child innocent.
Why then with insomnia, war we wage?
Methinks, due to bubbling thoughts resident,
we stagnate, mired in ego sedi...
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Categories:
meditator, muse, sleep, spiritual,
Form: Dizain
The Last Love Letter
...Scented with perfume, in as imagined
Heart melting into each words inflexion
Feeling softly, paper creases crumpled
We drew in each breath by resonation
The pen that so wrote, held by loves ow...
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Categories:
meditator, love, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
Devotion
...“surrender requires a surrenderer ...
meditation needs a meditator ...
the child exuberant, a wonderer!”
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Spoilt
for choice,
there being
multitude pa...
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Categories:
meditator, spiritual,
Form: Etheree
Maya Induced Hypnosis
...Swaying pendulum of the hypnotist
Impossible for mind-body to resist
It transfixes our attention in a trance
Stillness then being our only chance
Fact that singularity contains duality
Self in...
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Categories:
meditator, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
An Anxiously Anticipated Event
...Dear John,
All day
yesterday
I loaded up with a cascading river
of mixed anxiety and anticipation
about what to safely and kindly,
transparently and vulnerably
compassionately, so non-violen...
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Categories:
meditator, age, dance, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
An Orientation Allowing
...Thinker thinking
A doer doing
Meditator meditating
Non-doer doing
Thus differentiating
Aspects of disassociating
Likewise observed by observer
Yet the mind does filter
Whilst transcendence
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Categories:
meditator, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
I Am
...I am a Peacemaker
Mother - let me teach my children humility
Woman - let my sensitivity calm others
Wife - let me be his lover, confidant and teammate always
Reikimaster - let me teach and p...
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Categories:
meditator, nature,
Form: List
Wealthy 2020 Climates
...What do I mean
when I struggle to define my vocation
as a Climate Activist?
How am I anxious
and how might I more positively
anticipate?
An Activist,
hoping for resilient interrelationship...
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Categories:
meditator, green, health, new years
Form: Political Verse
Meditator
...THE MEDITATOR
Oh what joy it seems to me
Drinking an early morning tea.
While watching the sun rise across the Bay
Changing night into day.
My Maltese, lies stretched across my knees
Kno...
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Categories:
meditator, angst, depression, dog, funny,
Form: Rhyme
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