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Gregory Pai
On the Sacred and the Profane
In Gratitude To Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli To understand what is sacred in our lives, it is useful to begin with an understanding of what is not sacred, or profane. If what is sacred are those moments of full presence…
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Debra McCurdy
Poems from Meditation Retreat
2025 Meditation Retreat Lone lotus flower, Budding, blossoming, fading. Nothing stays the same. 2024 Meditation Retreat…
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Poems from Meditation Retreat
Let the afternoon unfold, cloud by cloud. Let whatever happens, happen; and whatever not, not. And let us live on in infinite kindness through the deepening light of this one blessed day.…
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Susan Choy
Poems from 2025 Meditation Retreat
The Painting
I see a painting–colorful and chaotic, like the mind of a soldier returning home from war. Now I enter the painting, a wildfire of experience: blue flames of past lives leaping at my…