"My body wants your body ( Read more... )

Shortly after the Revival of Learning in EuropeLet us begin and carry up this corpse ( Read more... )

Wabi-sabi is the most conspicuous and characteristic feature of what we think of as traditional Japanese beauty. It occupies roughly the same position in the Japanese pantheon of aesthetic values as do the Greek ideas of beauty and perfection in the West. Wabi-sabi can in its fullest expression be a way of life. At the very least, it is a ( Read more... )

I drink fire,
I breathe in the earth.
I wear clouds.
I ride on the universe.
I am the warrior.
I swallow the sun and the moon.
I wear the stars as my jewelry.
I am the conqueror of the universe.

--The Teacup & The Skullcup: Where Zen and Tantra Meet by Chögyam Trungpa, page 46

Vidyadhara,
the Black Ashe sits crookedly,
to a cocked head.

- composed on Tuesday, May 26th, 2015, as part of the Basic Goodness III exercises, under the guidance of Bozica.

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Sogyal Rinpoche and senior Rigpa students are currently conducting a 9-day retreat in Winterberg, Germany, for 500 students. One of the study themes is the heart-advice from Rinpoche's teacher, Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche, expressed in the form of songs, poems and letters ( Read more... )

Since everything is but an apparition,
Perfect in being what it is,
Having nothing to do with good or bad,
Acceptance or rejection
You might as well burst out laughing!

- Longchenpa

My lovely Glaucus,
How I'd care to see your scales fall,
To scrape the barnacles from your ivory mantle,
To unbraid your hair,
To run warmth into a waking heart,
How I'd like to feel your softened breast rise with kindness,
My lovely Glaucus.

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