Intrinsic Heart

Love has taken away my practices and filled me with poetry. I tried to keep quietly repeating No strength but yours, but I couldn't. I had to clap and sing. I used to be respectable and chaste and stable, but...

When you think about the teachers who gave you something valuable, some were kind and some were fierce.  There were those who took something away and those who opened a door to something new, those who showed you your strength...

The Opening of Eyes  That day I saw beneath dark clouds, the passing light over the water and I heard the voice of the world speak out. I knew then, as I had before, life is no passing memory of...

The sun is many times larger than the moon, and when the tiny moon blocks our view, we call that an eclipse.  And from where we stand, that is what things look like. But if we were standing somewhere else—another...

The sense of danger must not disappear: The way is certainly both short and steep, However gradual it looks from here; Look if you like, but you will have to leap. Tough-minded men get mushy in their sleep And break...

God has given us a dark wine so potent that, drinking it, we leave the two worlds. God has put into the form of hashish a power to deliver the taster from self-consciousness. God has made sleep so that it...