Through rain, snow, sleet, and hail Following the zoom links in my email Experiencing the waterfall, the stream, and the peaceful sea The balance of effortless effort…just be Who’s watching these thoughts with all their quirks? Moments of stillness…ahhh, practice works!
Our Heart of Practice Retreat 2022 was a success…again! We met again online this year due to the current conditions. We are making wishes that we’ll all be together again at Seven Circles in Badger next year! I’ll be posting songs of realization (poems) from some of the attendees, so stay tuned!
We held our 6th annual “Heart of Practice” retreat last month and it was another wonderful event! The dedication of all the participants to be the guardians of their own practice was inspiring! We concluded this year’s retreat with songs of realization (poetry) from everyone! I’ll be posting these beautiful offerings in the coming days. But for now, here are some lovely offerings from our teacher and spiritual friend, Khaydroup!
Dear Bodhisattvas
My sisters and brothers,
meeting again all our fathers and mothers,
daily arriving in our zoom little squares,
from across many miles, yet alone in our chairs.
So many challenges to show up and share,
so even though hard, we continue to dare.
And why do we do it, we know very well,
we feel the connection, it makes us feel swell.
And so my dear friends, what I’ve come here to say,
From the depths of my heart, I thank you each and every day.
Experience
Simple, ordinary, fresh,
forgetting, grasping, feeling it, letting go
seeing, resting, relaxing
happening all by itself.
Much More
Thoughts, words, language,
all useful to explain.
So easy to be good at this relentless game.
There is so much more to explore,
look behind and beyond,
that which confines
so as not to ignore
or mistake
the description for what is described.
Let the spacious moment arise and subside
again and again infinite openness has ever been here.
Watched a beautiful documentary this weekend telling the story of Mingyur Rinpoche’s “Wandering Retreat”. I had read his memoir “In Love with the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying” and this is a wonderful companion. The film is beautifully shot with Rinpoche telling his own story. Highly recommend watching.
Under cover of darkness and with no word of his plans, much-beloved Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche walked away from his life on the international stage to live that of a wandering yogi. Unheard of among eminent teachers today, such a practice is rife with hardships. For Mingyur Rinpoche, these challenges—begging, finding food and shelter, illness, and all the attendant risks of wandering incognito from place to place with the barest of possessions—present fertile ground for deepening insight into the true nature of the mind.
Wandering . . . But Not Lost is an intimate account of Mingyur Rinpoche’s four-and-a-half-year retreat (June 2011 – November 2015) interspersed with Rinpoche’s own guidance in applying Buddhist wisdom to our daily modern lives that will touch—and inspire—audiences everywhere.
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