Arts - SAND

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

Sojourns in the Parallel World

By Denise Levertov

We live our lives of human passions, cruelties, dreams, concepts, crimes and the exercise of virtue in and beside a world devoid of our preoccupations...

The Wound of Love

By Maya Luna

Today I gave up on healing my trauma

The Tao of Jazz

By Peter Jezard

Music is created from energetic patterns of tonal and rhythmic interval. It is the ratio of these intervals…

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Where will I find you?

By Georgi Johnson

image by Android Jones Where will I find you? Where will I find you, my friend? In an accusing forest…

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu...

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen. Not any religion or cultural system.…

The Dakini Speaks

By Jennifer Welwood

My friends, let’s grow up. Let’s stop pretending we don’t know the deal here.

A Life of Zen: Ikkyū, the Crazy Cloud

By Surendra

Please, please don’t worry. How many times do I have to say it?

I No Longer I

By Aldous Huxley

from "Island" by Aldous Huxley Somewhere between seeing and speaking, somewhere Between our soiled and…

A Madcap Baul

That is why, brother, I became a madcap Baul. No master I obey, nor injunctions, canons or custom. Now…

Poem by Fernando Pessoa

By Fernando Pessoa

By Fernando Pessoa (writing under the heteronym Alberto Caeiro) The astonishing reality of things Is…

The Two Selves Within Us

By Rajeev Kurupati

By Rajeev Kurupati The 13th century Persian mystic, Rumi, expresses a distinction between the two selves…

Happy are those who know

Happy are those who know: Behind all words, the Unsayable stands; And from that source alone, the Infinite…

From Spiralling Ecstatically This

proud nowhere of earth’s most prodigious night blossoms a newborn babe:around him,eyes - gifted with…

The Sayings of Old Man Tcheng

French paraphrase of the original Buddhist text by J. Garillot (1974), translated by Else van den Muyzenberg.…

I Witnessed My Maker

By Mansur al-Hallaj

I witnessed my Maker with my heart’s eye. I asked, ‘Who are You?’ He answered, 'You!’ For You one cannot…

You Reading This, Be Ready

By William Stafford

by William Stafford Starting here, what do you want to remember? How sunlight creeps along a shining…

The Qualitative Science of the Heart

By Kabir Helminski

There's something beautiful about being together with a group of people whose main interest is understanding…

The Soul of Nature

By John O'Donohue

How can we ever know the difference we make to the soul of the earth? Where the infinite stillness of…

The Thing Is

By Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Written after Ellen Bass’s poem of the same name. To trust life, that is the thing. To trust it even…

Singularity

by Marie Howe (after Stephen Hawking) Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularity we once were?…

Hsin Hsin Ming: On Trust in the Heart

by Seng-ts’an (China, 529 - 606) Translated by Richard B. Clarke The Great Way is not difficult for…

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The Medicine of Poetry and Music: Kim Rosen

Kim Rosen, author of Saved by a Poem, reminds us that the rhythms and sounds of the spoken word can…

In the Morning I Remember

By Alain Joly

Here is a beautiful prayer composed by Adi Shankara around the 8th century. These three verses, meant…

Streaming Beggars

By Jeannie Zandi

Now that you have moved into my heart, taken the doors off their hinges and removed the windows, glass,…

Awakening to the Dance of Our Divinity - and Humanity

By Dhyana Stanley In spiritual circles, even in the non-dual community, the term ‘humanness’ sometimes…

Tripping Over Joy

What is the difference Between your experience of Existence And that of a saint? The saint knows That…

Fakhruddin ‘Araqi: Divine Flashes

Resa Abbasi, A Sleeping Woman. by Philip Brown SUFISM IS A wisdom teaching grounded in Primordial Reality.…

Vijnana Bhairava Tantra

Native of eternity. At home in infinity. Breathing immortality. Let these words sing in every cell.…

Continuous Awakening

By Dorothy Hunt

Continuous Awakening by Dorothy Hunt Continuous awakening belongs to only THIS! that is already continuously…

The Logical Song Lyrics - Supertramp

The Logical Song When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful,A miracle, oh it was beautiful,…

The Best Self-Help Advice

There is no self to help. The best self-help advice of all. When you try to 'help' the 'self' you reinforce…

I Am Not I

photo: Caras Ionut BY JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ I am not I. I am this one walking beside me whom I do not see,…

I Came Into the Unknown

“I came into the unknown and stayed there unknowing rising beyond all science. I did not know the door…

You Do Not Need Courage

By Jeff Foster

“Today, take each step with courage!” Or, take each step without courage. It really doesn’t matter.…

My Ancestry DNA

Poet Fred LaMotte (aka Alfred K. LaMotte) is an adjunct professor of world religions and an interfaith…

Who Are You Without Your Spiritual Story?

By Jeff Foster

Painting by spiritual artist, Byron Tik Please, don't talk to me about 'Pure Awareness' or 'Dwelling…

The Inner History Of A Day

Photo by © Cecil Whitt by John O’Donohue No one knew the name of this day; Born quietly from deepest…

Loose Magic

arriving in the middle where all plots suspend the caravan of loose magic rolls into town bumping along…

I Thank You

i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream…

The Little Love Book: 267 Words for Love in Sanskrit

by Elyse Poppers This simple and beautifully book is the culmination of artist Elyse Poppers's search…

Allow

by Danna Faulds There is no controlling life. Try corralling a lightning bolt, containing a tornado.…

Sangha

by Danna Faulds Teach me what I cannot learn alone. Let us share what we know, and what we cannot fathom.…

Non-Duality ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Photo by Bart ten Berge In the quiet stream, I swim gently. The murmur of the water lulls my heart.…

The Summary of Mahamudra

Homage to the state of great bliss! Concerning what is called Mahamudra All things are your own mind.…

Change by Nagarjuna

English version by Stephen Batchelor If something has an essence– How can it ever change Into anything…

Buddha In Glory

by Rainer Maria Rilke Center of all centers, core of cores, almond self-enclosed, and growing sweet--…

Awakening Now

by Danna Faulds Why wait for your awakening? The moment your eyes are open, seize the day. Would you…

Graceful Wave of Chaos

by Francesca Mariano (participant at SAND17, Italy) Whirling, whirling Reality is blurry As I remain…

Sound Portal

by Francesca Mariano Where does it come from? Spirit divine Where does it come from? Spirit of sound…

Want the Change

by Rainer Maria Rilke Want the change. Be inspired by the flame where everything shines as it disappears.…

Andrei Tarkovsky: Instant Light

Andrei Tarkovsky, Instant Light - The Culturium “Tarkovsky for me is the greatest, the one who…

The Grace of Conflict

By Jeff Foster

Through every relationship we are only ever trying to meet The One. Which means, meeting ourselves.…

Naked Song

Enlightenment absorbs this universe of qualities.When that merging occurs, there is nothingbut God.…

Toss Aside Your Map of the World

All your beliefs and constructs. Dare the wild unknown. Here in this terrifying freedom, Naked before…

Wherever, whenever you feel carried away

Rejoicing in every breath,There, there is your meditation hall.Cherish those times of absorption—Rocking…

He Will Break Down Walls by Building Them

By Jeff Foster

He is the great unifier, but not in the way he imagines. He will unify those who agree with him. He…

The Wild Brilliance of the Self

Sting of a wasp Rip of a nail A razor’s slice The needle’s plunge. A piercing word A stab of betrayal…

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The Qualitative Science of the Heart, Kabir Helminski

Sufism is a discipline, a methodology, for enhancing and refining spiritual perception. The human being…

The Guest House

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some…

The Love Song of Devi and Bhairava

By Dr. Lorin Roche I first met the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra in 1968, when I was 18 and working in a physiology…

The Radiance Sutras part III

by Lorin Roche Enter these turning points In the play of respiration and expiration, Where the rhythms…

Silence is not God

For silence is not God, nor speaking; fasting is not God, nor eating; solitude is not God, nor company;…

Love is a Place

love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a…

Deep inside of each one of us...

photo: Fernand Hick Deep inside of each one of us is light that is utterly peaceful and quiet. It is…

Happy are those who know:

Happy are those who know: Behind all words, the Unsayable stands; And from that source alone, the Infinite…

‘True Knowledge’ - Kabir

This, I’ve discovered, is true knowledge— Those who scramble to get into a boat Sink like a stone midstream,…

Look, it cannot be seen...

photo: Song Young Lee Look, it cannot be seen - it is beyond form. Listen, it cannot be heard - it is…

The Dream Must be Interpreted

photo: Adrian Donoghue This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like…

Dissolving in What Is

Thou wert absorbed in Thine Own Self, hidden from me; I passed whole days in seeking Thee out But when…

A Sensory Prayer

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

In the End: The Beginning - Jay Ramsay

In the End: The Beginning By Jay Ramsay There is something in the end there is no avoiding That is more…

Worker Of The Universe - Rabindranath Tagore

It is only the revelation of You as the Infinite that is endlessly new and eternally beautiful in us…

Free and Easy: A Spontaneous Vajra Song

By Venerable Lama Gendun Rinpoche Happiness can not be found through great effort and willpower, but…

When Love Cracks you Open

By Jeff Foster

Love does not always feel safe because love is pure potential and pure presence and in pure presence…

Two the Love Story of One

SAND is honored to publish the new book "Two the Love Story of One" by Prasanna. In the Ocean of Love…

Love's Deeper Commitment

By Jeff Foster

Let’s not commit to a future together.

Today in the Market Place

By Dorothy Hunt

Today in the market place, I will love you in the lemons and caress you in the smooth-skinned apple.…

Awakening: The Great Divorce

By Jeff Foster

By Jeff Foster When you awaken, what disappears is your interest in maintaining a consistent 'image'.…

Sewing Lesson

image by Dina Belenko between clouds and abyss the garment of self is sewn with the patient enemy time…

Huh?

image by Christian Wig row row row the boat I listened at the bankless river that no longer flows for…

The Emptiness and Potency of 108

By Newcomb Greenleaf

Buddhism and mathematics two paths to our sacred number maverick mathematician / vajrayana Buddhist…

The Invitation

By Dorothy Hunt

When God comes in your house it is only by your invitation, but even your invitation is God's, for she…

Why is it happening?

image: jae youn If it is not inherently permitted, why is it happening? We can’t say why; all we can…

Fall

image: Ursula Abresch The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up, as if orchards were dying high…

Now is the Time

Now is the time. Now is the time to know That all that you do is sacred. Now, why not consider A lasting…

How Surely Gravity’s Law

image by F Hick How surely gravity's law, strong as an ocean current, takes hold of the smallest thing…

The Altar of This Moment - a poem

By Dorothy Hunt

photo by Juliana Nan Place everything you can perceive— Everything you can See, Hear, Smell, Taste,…

You, you only, exist

image: Tanya Markova You, you only, exist. We pass away, till at last, our passing is so immense that…

This Is It

Always we hope someone else has the answer. some other place will be better, some other time it will…

From Afar

Image by Andre Ermolaev The 'I' that floats along the wave of time, From a distance I watch him. With…

Dragons and Princesses

art by CAMERON GRAY (parablevisions.com) "Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are…

The Legacy of a Truth-Seeker

By Bernardo Kastrup

Photo by Ursula Abresch Having trodden the path for cycles uncountable, Having crossed the ocean of…

How to Fall in Love by Jeff Foster

By Jeff Foster

When you shift your focus from what is absent to what is present, from what is missing to what has been…