Self-Surrender
Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the …
Category Archives: Reflections
Rainbow at Night
The train moves through the Guadarrama one night on the way to Madrid. The moon and the fog create high …
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme
“But now a strange thing befell me; my despair gave place to an unlooked-for tranquility. … True, I had no …
The Need to Win
When an archer is shooting for nothing He has all his skill. If he shoots for a brass buckle He …
Non-attachment
Old Man at Leisure Sacred or secular manners and conventions make no difference to him. Completely fee leaving it all …
Two Poems on Death
For the Anniversary of My Death Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires …
Two Poems by Tu Fu
CLEAR AFTER RAIN Autumn, cloud blades on the horizon. The west wind blows from ten thousand miles. Dawn, in the …
Troparion
Lord, This woman who encountered her shadow perceives the numinous in You, leads the women who come with grief and …
The Sound of Silence
He was a young man, but completely the master of the seven strings and of the complex music…. The musician …
Great Life-Giving Spirit
Great Spirit of love, come to me with the power of the North. Make me courageous when the cold winds …
Remembering the Sacred Self 