Presence and Absence
Thursday, January 27th, 2005 Posted in My Life, Poetry, Spirituality | Comments OffI'm sure that most of my blog's regular readers know what I mean by feeling "the Presence of God." Yet I wonder how many people in the general population know it. Is it something that most sense a few times ...
Writing as Meditation
Sunday, January 16th, 2005 Posted in Poetry, Spirituality | No Comments »In her famous book Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg describes how her roshi instructed her to begin using her writing as a form of meditation. Recently, my teacher, Kitabu Roshi », gave me a similar assignment, especially through ...
Living is dying
Saturday, January 8th, 2005 Posted in My Life, Poetry | No Comments »I've been feeling a lot of pain recently, largely because the tsunami affected me very deeply. Although I've never been to Asia, I've long felt a strong resonance to the lands that were hit by the tsunami, especially Indonesia. Today ...
Eight Haiku for the Nativity
Thursday, December 16th, 2004 Posted in Poetry | No Comments »Thought I might put this on the front page as a post before I restore it into the Poetry section. **Eight Haiku for the Nativity** Igniter of Stars! lies naked, bawling on rough straw God in the manger. Scandal of Ages! The King of Infinity in this ...