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Fire

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  The fire of anger is burning America. When our mind can no longer contain it, the flames burst out to scorch the environment, endangering many innocent creatures.  But You can water this fierce desiccation at its inner root, in the valley just beneath your breastbone. You can transform the collective heat of the nation into a healing balm of compassion. If you and I don't do this inner work, external works will be fruitless.  Gaze into the Christic flower that blossoms in the core of your chest. Is there not overwhelming power in its softness, melting sharp edges, merging opposites? The gentle fragrance that heals the earth cannot be understood by the intellect, or packaged by political ideology. It must be savored as pure energy, prior to conceptual thought, where the soul intuits its Self as a golden ocean of love. Gaze into this flower. Let it be the spontaneous inspiration of your action, a mandala of your true nature, your wisdom-heart of forgiveness. Photo: K...
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Can You Bow?

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Can you bow like a broken necklace scattering your brightest tears? All other yoga postures simply remove the stiffness so that you can bow. Bending is the first freedom. Don't just prostrate to the master, bow like a bee  to a grain of pollen. Kneel like a thirsty panther drinking from a pond at sunset. Like mountain snow melting  into the laughter of a stream, genuflect to Spring.   To the sound of a tree frog in the jasmine vine at midnight, bow down. To the plums of September thumping the ground,  showing you how to fall,  how to split open and offer your juice. Bow to the silence of the doe who, after all, is eating your roses. Bow to the wail of the newborn American whose mother crossed over the border last night. To your own breath, to the secret name  in your heartbeat, bow down  and fill the hollows of your body  with the blues of the sky. Bow so completely that you shatter your crown and s...
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The Ground Of Meditation (Video)

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I have pared this talk down to the essential. It is not a substitute for the meditation practice you may already be "doing." It is rather the ground state of the Heart from which all meditation practices begin, and become much more natural. Peace.  
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