Intrinsic Heart

REUNION This is how it is: one part of you journeys forth while the other stays at home to wait and keep things going. And the years pass with you (the waiter) going about your business while you wonder how...

Just This! Just This! First days of spring - the sky is bright blue, the sun huge and warm. Everything's turning green. Carrying my monk's bowl, I walk to the village to beg for my daily meal. The children spot...

So many times something happens seemingly by accident – you apply for one job, but they hire you for something else way better. You go down the wrong street, and suddenly there’s a view you’ve never seen before, and somehow...

Some say you're lucky If nothing shatters it. But then you wouldn't Understand poems or songs. You'd never know Beauty comes from loss. It's deep inside every person: A tear tinier Than a pearl or thorn. It's one of the...

You Are That Freshness When it’s cold and raining, you are more beautiful. And the snow brings me even closer to Your Lips. The Inner Secret, that which was never born, You are That Freshness, and I am with You...

This embodied life is not a mistake, and the body is not the enemy.  The poetry of interweaving multiple dimensions, the abilities and insights and relationships the body gives, are great gifts. We may imagine a freedom from restrictions attributed...