A Sensory Prayer

Poetry

May the touch of your skin Register the beauty Of the otherness That surrounds you.

May your listening be attuned To the deeper silence Where sound is honed To bring distance home.

May the fragrance Of a breathing meadow Refresh your heart And remind you you are A child of the earth.

And when you partake Of food and drink, May your taste quicken To the gift and sweetness That flows from the earth.

May your inner eye See through the surfaces And glean the real presence Of everything that meets you.

May your soul beautify The desire of your eyes That you might glimpse The infinity that hides In the simple sights That seem worn To your usual eyes.

John O’Donohue

Arts

1979

By Wendell Berry

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

Invocation

By Hazrat Inayat Khan

A prayer by the Sufi mystic and musician

6:00 – FREE

Experimental Native American Sound Artist

With PBS

First Native American composer to win Pulitzer Prize on his experimental process

1:03:00 – FREE

#45 We Must Risk New Shapes

With Sophie Strand

We spent the hour with Sophie as she shared numerous writings and musing on being good soil

28:00 – FREE

Zen and Nonduality

With Kazuaki Tanahashi

Zen Buddhism and its relation to Nonduality, the symbolism of the ensō (円相, "circular form") calligraphy, and the Heart Sutra

22:00 – FREE

Wrought

With Aeon

Dazzling timelapse shows how microbes spoil our food – and sometimes enrich it.

Feast of Losses

By Jami Sieber and Kim Rosen

"This is how the heart makes a duet of wonder and grief." –Mark Nepo

Aware

By Denise Levertov

A poem about a moment of wonder observing vine leaves.

12:00 – FREE

George Harrison's Views of Vedanta

From a Beatle to a mystic seeker

50:00 – FREE

#50 Reflections: Sounds of SAND's First Year

With Science and Nonduality

highlighting some shimmering jewels from the first 50 episodes of the podcast's 1-year anniversary

What’s Love Got to Do With It?: Tina Turner

By Andrea Miller

The legendary singer discusses her Buddhist practice with Lion's Roar Magazine

2:00 – FREE

We need Afrofuturism; not as a box to put people in, but as a lens with which to change the way we imagine and actualize an inclusive future. A future where Black people are in control of their own destinies.

Odilon Redon's The Art of Silence

By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

A 1911 painting conveying how silence is a portal to the mysterious.

Breaking the Drought

By Stephen Levine

Stephen Levine with a poem on forgiveness and a reevaluation of our so-called enemies.

14:00 – FREE

Spirituality & the Gods: Sinéad O'Connor

With Guth na nGael

Remembering the late great singer and activist with this interview and performance from Irish TV on her own interspiritual journey through music

Black Spirituals as Poetry and Resistance

By Kaitlyn Greenidge

These songs — the oldest musical expressions of the slave experience in this country — still have a lot to teach us about how we think about death and dignity.

1:00:00 – FREE