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April 24, 2012

Abigail Washburn: Building US-China relations ... by banjo

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January 29, 2012

SOLITAIRE

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January 08, 2012

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

--
Mary Oliver, The Summer Day

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December 13, 2011

Yeshe Tsogyal

Listen,
O brothers and sisters,
You who have mastered the teaching -
If you recognize me,
Queen of the Lake of Awareness,
Who encompasses
Both emptiness and form,
Know that I live in the minds
Of all beings who live.

Know that I live
In the body of mind
And the field of the senses,
That the twelve kinds of matter
Are only my bones and my skin.

We are not two,
Yet you look for me outside;
When you find me within yourself,
Your own naked mind,
That Single Awareness
Will fill all worlds,
Then the joy of the One
Will hold you like a lake-
Its fish with gold-seeing eyes,
Will grow many and fat.
Hold to that knowledge and pleasure,
And the creative will be your wings.
You will leap through the green meadows
Of earthly appearance,
Enter the sky-fields and vanish.