Dear Friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the penultimate track from this retreat, The Awakening Poem<\/a>, DaRa reads a reflection which is sometimes attributed to by Sonny Carroll, although the wording on various websites isn’t always consistent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can read a version fairly close to DaRa’s recitation here: The poem didn’t really resonate with me, though there are some useful life lessons there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Mark Coleman talks about the difficulties of expressing one’s understanding of esoteric experiences in language, and that there is a benefit in attempting to share one’s experience. In this talk, he suggests poetry is one way we can convey our understanding in a way that the heart can grok even if the rational mind can’t. You can listen to his talk (including lots of poems) here, Poetry of Awakening – Monday Night Dharma Talk from September 27, 2021: For a practice today, check out Mark’s website for a variety of meditations for different themes: Or maybe today you would like to invite your inner artist to express whatever taste of awakening that is alive for you, whether in poetry, writing, music, sketching, painting, movement, quilting, baking, …<\/p>\n\n\n\n With good wishes, Dear Friends, In the penultimate track from this retreat, The Awakening Poem, DaRa reads a reflection which is sometimes attributed to by Sonny Carroll, although the wording on various websites isn’t always consistent. You can read a version fairly close to DaRa’s recitation here:https:\/\/www.michaelppowers.com\/wisdom\/awakening2.html The poem didn’t really resonate with me, though there are some useful life lessons\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[302],"tags":[237,36],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jan-2022","tag-dara-williams","tag-mark-coleman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1387,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/1387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
https:\/\/www.michaelppowers.com\/wisdom\/awakening2.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/www.dharmaseed.org\/talks\/67543\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/markcoleman.org\/talks\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Andrea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"