From Afar - SAND

Poetry

Image by Andre Ermolaev

The ‘I’ that floats along the wave of time,

From a distance I watch him.

With the dust and the water,

With the fruit and the flower,

With the All he is rushing forward.

He is always on the surface,

Tossed by the waves and dancing to the rhythm

Of joy and suffering.

The least loss makes him suffer,

The least wound hurts him—

Him I see from afar.

That ‘I’ is not my real self;

I am still within myself,

I do not float in the stream of death.

I am free, I am desireless,

I am peace, I am illumined—

Him I see from afar.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Arts

Sometimes a Wild God

By Tom Hirons

Sometimes a wild god comes to the table. He is awkward and does not know the ways

Unending Love

By Rabindranath Tagore

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…

Love After Love

By Derek Walcott

Go to the Limits of Your Longing

By Rainer Maria Rilke

God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night.

Widening Circles

By Rainer Maria Rilke

Guidepost of Silent Illumination

By Master Hongzhi

Silent and serene, forgetting words, bright clarity appears before you.

Wabi-Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence

By Shawn Radcliffe

Often in our world of mass-produced goods and machine-like cities, we strive for perfection,

A Liturgy of Light

By John O'Donohue

When suffering comes, we feel panic and fear. Frightened, we want to hide.

Illness as Companion

By John O'Donohue

We never value or even see some things in our lives until we are just about to lose them.

This is Not a Poem

By Fred LaMotte

Just a murmur whose poor thoughts won't reach the edge of the page.

A Liturgy of Light

By John O'Donohue

When suffering comes, we feel panic and fear. Frightened, we want to hide.

SAND18 US — The Wound of Love

With Maya Luna

Today I Gave Up on Healing my Trauma

Taste Your Life Now

By Ellen Emmet

There is a kind of thinking which keeps life separate from herself

The Poetry of the World

By Shawn Radcliffe

“Some of his poems are as if he’s consoling God for what’s happened to his creation”

Guidepost of Silent Illumination

By Master Hongzhi

Silent and serene, forgetting words, bright clarity appears before you.

The Return of the Black Madonna

By Matthew Fox

A Sign of Our Times or How the Black Madonna Is Shaking Us Up for the Twenty-First Century

Wabi-Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence

By Shawn Radcliffe

Often in our world of mass-produced goods and machine-like cities, we strive for perfection,

Come Solstice Come

By Rainer Maria Rilke

All will come again into its strength: the fields undivided, the waters undammed,

The Laughing Heart: Charles Bukowski

Your life is your life, don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.

One Must Dance Naked

By Fred LaMotte

You wear your silence as a black silk gown, woven infinitesimal, every thread a letter of your lover's name.

When in the Soul of the Serene Disciple

By Thomas Merton

With no more Fathers to imitate, Poverty is a success

Widening Circles

By Rainer Maria Rilke

Go to the Limits of Your Longing

By Rainer Maria Rilke

God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night.

SAND18 US - The Paradox of Awakening

With David Ellzey

At the 2018 SAND Conference, David Ellzey physically and wordlessly tells the story that resolves the seeming paradox of being both human and transcendent.

Love After Love

By Derek Walcott

Chimes

With Sea Stars

Sea Stars is the musical collaboration of Kurt Baumann and Katie Gray.

"Pandemic" a poem

By Lynn Ungar

What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath—the most sacred of times?