2025 Meditation Retreat
Lone lotus flower,
Budding, blossoming, fading.
Nothing stays the same.
2024 Meditation Retreat
Layered clouds pass by.
Temple dragons peer skyward,
Awareness notes thought.
Grateful
Grateful for my pain;
Searing, aching, heart wrenching;
Waking compassion.
Noting
Noting endless thoughts.
Realizing they’re not me.
Freedom arising.
Clouds
Clouds form and disperse;
Floating, swirling, vanishing;
Like my sea of thoughts.
Sound
Symphony of sounds.
Birdsong, honking, lawn mower;
I’m smiling with joy.
Turtle
Turtle on the rock,
Motionless under the sun.
He gets to just be.
Impermanence
Wind shifts the white clouds across the cerulean sky.
The breeze makes my loose pants ripple, massaging the backs of my legs.
I lift my foot, light as air.
The fiery sun beams against my shoulders and the vibrant green grass.
Slowly, my foot propels forward.
For a moment, misty raindrops caress my face and dampen the grass.
My heel drops down to meet the warm tender blades.
As my toes follow and find the earth, I am grounded.
Over the mountain ridges, shadows cast by the billowing clouds spread like an incoming tide.
Quickly, they vanish as do the joys and sorrows that fill and empty my heart.
