Non-attachment
Old Man at Leisure Sacred or secular manners and conventions make no difference to him. Completely fee leaving it all …
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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 …
Song of Songs
My love is white and ruddy, one in ten thousand. His head is like the finest gold, his locks are …
A Prayer that will be Answered
Lord let me suffer much and then die Let me walk through silence and leave nothing behind not even fear …
Troparion
Lord, This woman who encountered her shadow perceives the numinous in You, leads the women who come with grief and …
Awake!
“In my meditations I was visited by this light and attracted by it and it gave me greater clarity in …
The Sound of Silence
He was a young man, but completely the master of the seven strings and of the complex music…. The musician …
Song
A woman is singing in the valley. The shadows falling blot her out, but her song spreads over the fields. …
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 