Intrinsic Heart

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times… In life after life, in age after age, forever. My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs, That you take as a gift, wear round your...

Two birds, but they fly together. We see duality all the time in our perceptions: Ourself and other, “I” and what I see, This opinion and that, The way things are and how we’d like them to be, What we...

Let Us Meet at the True Source Written in honor of Thich Nhat Hanh on the occasion of his passing January 22, 2022 Let us meet at the true source Let us not be deterred by this or that What...

Totally conscious, and apropos of nothing, you come to me. Is someone here? I ask. The moon. The full moon is inside your house. My friends and I go running out into the street. I’m in here, comes a voice...

We go through life trying to find harmony and balance, yet we often overlook the harmony and balance that are already here.  We have ideas about where we stand and how we compare with others, and a sense of identity...

The Lost Poem My father carried a poem with him all through his internment in Cabanatuan prison camp in the Philippines, carried it with him for four years, showed it to me one day folded and refolded, print blurred, coming...