Jason Espada read his exquisite poetry in praise of Tara, the female buddha of compassion:
Spiritual beauty bringing light, giving hope, removing obstacles, calming fear, pacifying suffering, and protecting, bringing harmony to every surrounding circumstance, bringing life, health, happiness, good fortune, and stability.
IN PRAISE OF TARA
LAST THINGS
In the moments just before dusk the light lengthens, lemon-gold, over the grass: swells, then billows flags of flame tearing in the wind, wave after wave of ochre and umber resounding on the shores of evening, and finally becomes a thing almost incarnate—the clear flesh of the orchid evaporating on its stem might be the opposite of this— and thoughtless you reach to touch it so it thins, fades, and is gone.
Becoming the river´s song
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View PostECHO
View PostYEAR OF THE EARTH DOG
View PostTHE SHADOW OF MY HANDS MOVING
View PostFARMHOUSE IN KOPAN 1976
View PostMY GURU
View PostI AM COMING OUT AS A HUMAN BEING
View PostDIVINE WIND OF NOW
A poem about the experience and recognition of the moment and the power within. Accompanied by photographs I have taken of such very special moments that I have found my self to be in.
THE DREAM
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View PostDANCE OF THREE VAJRAS
Dance of three Vajras
Practice on three vajras
Mind body and speech
Revealing the three mysteries
MIND’S ULTIMATE NATURE: POEM BY DZONGSAR KHYENTSE RINPOCHE
View PostTHE OPEN EXPANSE OF AWARENESS
View PostTHE WITNESS SKY
View PostRULER OF YOUR VAST KINGDOM
Since the beginning of all time until the end of all time there lives a ruler of a vast kingdom between myriads of interstellar clouds and within each single sentient being. May this timeless king of ancient lineage born in the foam of a colorful- iridescent sea of arising stardust remember his royal descent. May he wake up to the holistic realization of his eternally pulsating universe of body, speech and mind within an ocean of nourishing light for the benefit of all living beings as there are as many as shooting stars in a meteor stream.