Gassho 🙏🏼

i notice
how noticing
has edges

it cuts
the fog

a small thing
stands up

not important
just exact

and in that exactness
i feel
less blurred

Santa Claus and the Buddha

#poetry #writing

Without Asking to Be Remembered

#poetry (alt text)

Pause between in and out -
a small island of not-knowing.
Step there and stay awhile -
the world rearranges itself.

#Mindfulness-of-breathing (Ānāpānasati) #Insight (Vipassanā) #Non-striving
#poem #poetry #buddhism

A spider’s web holds dew -
each bead a small mirror.
Touch one, and the whole net shivers -
you are never only you.

#Interbeing #Right-View (Sammā Diṭṭhi) #Dependent-Origination (Paṭiccasamuppāda)
#poem #poetry #buddhism

Thank you so much for sharing, Lanie. 🙏🏼
@pressingstories.bsky.social

Thank you so much for sharing. 🙏🏼
@lilithl.bsky.social

Thank you very much for sharing, Joe. 🙏🏼

Sunday opens
like a fist
soft with forgiveness

#poetry

He held his anger
like a sword-
until he saw
his own reflection
on the blade.

#Mindfulness #Right-action #Insight
#poem #poetry #buddhism

Thank you so much for sharing, Julia. 🙏🏼
@peculiarjulia.bsky.social

Compassion
is not letting them walk over you-
it’s standing
without hate
even as you say
no.

#Lovingkindness (Mettā) #Equanimity #Right-Speech
#poem #poetry #buddhism

Anger rises-
a wave, sharp and high.
Let it pass.
You are not the wave.
You are the ocean.

#Mindfulness #Non-attachment #Patience
#poem #poetry #buddhism

A sparrow landed
on the monk’s shoulder.
They sat in silence—
and both
understood everything.

#Interbeing #Stillness #Awareness
#poem #poetry #buddhism

Don’t chase silence.
Just stop feeding
the noise.

#Right-Effort #Mindfulness #Simplicity
#poem #poetry #buddhism

A child’s laugh
echoed across the temple stones.
That, too,
was meditation.

#Joy (Muditā) #Awareness #Non-duality
#poem #poetry #buddhism

You don’t have to end the storm.
Just keep the lamp lit
for those finding their way.

#Right-Intention #Compassion (Karuṇā) #Generosity
#poem #poetry #buddhism

Forgiveness is not a river’s rush-
it’s the slow work
of thawed snow,
finding its way to sea.

#Patience #Compassion (Karuṇā) #Liberation
#poem #poetry #buddhism

You do not have to shine.
Even the moon
lets the night
hold her in darkness
and still
the tide obeys.

#Interbeing #Self-Acceptance #Trust
#poem #poetry #buddhism

When the heron
stands in still water,
it does not wonder
if the fish will come-
it simply waits.

#Mindfulness (Sati) #Right-Effort #Patience
#poem #poetry #buddhism

You are not late.
The path appears
when you’re ready
to walk it.

#Trust #Right-Timing (Sammā Vāyāma) #Inner-Readiness
#poem #poetry #buddhism

Not every answer
needs a voice.
Some truths
are learned
by sitting
with the question.

#Mindfulness (Sati) #Right-View (Sammā Diṭṭhi) #Wisdom (Paññā)
#poem #poetry #buddhism

Although the title has been said for many years.

Yes.

As You Think, So You Are

A mind is a mirror.
Polish it with fear,
and fear will stare back.
Polish it with hope,
and the world will open.

#Mindfulness (Sati) #Right-View (Sammā Diṭṭhi) #Karma (Cause and Effect of Mental States)
#poem #poetry #buddhism

A river’s song
does not change
for the ears that hear it.
So too,
with truth-
it flows
whether welcomed
or ignored.

#Integrity #Right-Speach #Dharma
#poem #poetry #buddhism

The crow called once-
a sound sharp as winter.
And yet,
in that cry,
the whole sky
answered.

#Interbeing #Right-View #Awareness
#poem #poetry #buddhism

You spoke gently
to the one
who didn’t deserve it.
That was the moment
you stepped free
from the story
they tried to write you into.

#Compassion (Karuṇā) #Right-Speach #Liberation
#poem #poetry #buddhism

Cherry blossoms fall-
a breeze scatters this moment
never to return.

#haiku #poetry

Thank you. 🙏🏼 You are welcome. 🙏🏼