Sublime

In the Theravadan tradition, there’s a lovely meditation that offers four kinds of warm wishes for five types of people,

But when I look at what is putting me and millions of other people of color at risk, a lack of niceness from white people toward

May I live with an open heart, and may I let people’s joys and sorrows flow through it without taking them as my own. May I hold space for people’s emotions no matter what they are, so that they can move through feeling knowing they’re safe and loved.

For Rilke, God is the companion, the hand the reader is exhorted to take. Ficre is not my God; neither do I know who God is. But I find this force in art, poems, and the community I have made.

Each one of us can be in direct contact with the Buddha as a kind of action. When we are able to walk happily on the Earth, in touch with the wonders of life—with the beautiful birds, trees, and blue sky—feeling happy, at peace, and at ease, then we ourselves are a continuation of the Buddha. The Buddha is not something outside us. He is a kind of

A bhikkhu observes the six sense organs and overcomes the five obstacles of the mind which are greed, hatred, ignorance, torpor, and doubt.

In my dream the sacred feminine that had been suppressed and forced underground since the beginning of the Christian era was emerging now, in this current age, because we women are emerging and waking up too from the nightmare of patri­ archy. She is the fierce Goddess of Compassion. The Earth had kept Her safe in her belly all of these years.