Truth So True: Reflections on a Sacred Passage

In God Makes the Rivers to Flow; An Anthology of the World’s Sacred Poetry & Prose, Eknath Easwaran includes a selection from Saint Symeon the New Theologian entitled “I Know That He Reveals Himself.”  I’ve written the following poem-like reflections inspired by this selection. Truth So True I know that He who is immovable descends; I know …

Suchness: Reflections on a Sacred Passage

In God Makes the Rivers to Flow; An Anthology of the World’s Sacred Poetry & Prose, Eknath Easwaran includes a selection from Seng Ts’an entitled “Believing in Mind.”  I’ve written the following poem-like reflections inspired by this selection. Suchness Without meditation Consciousness and feeling are hard to grasp. In the realm of Suchness There is neither self nor …

No Impediments: Reflections on a Sacred Passage

In God Makes the Rivers to Flow; An Anthology of the World’s Sacred Poetry & Prose, Eknath Easwaran includes a selection from Seng Ts’an entitled “Believing in Mind.”  I’ve written the following poem-like reflections inspired by this selection. No Impediments The great Way has no impediments; It does not pick and choose. When you abandon attachment and aversion …

Truth of My Being: Reflections on a Sacred Passage

In God Makes the Rivers to Flow; An Anthology of the World’s Sacred Poetry & Prose, Eknath Easwaran includes a selection from the Kena Upanishad entitled “That Invisible One.”  I’ve written the following poem-like reflections inspired by this selection. Truth of My Being The teacher replies: “The Self is the ear of the ear. the eye of the …

Love So Deep: Reflections on a Sacred Passage

In God Makes the Rivers to Flow; An Anthology of the World’s Sacred Poetry & Prose, Eknath Easwaran includes a selection from Saint Anselm entitled “Teach Me.”  I’ve written the following poem-like reflections inspired by this selection. Love So Deep Be it mine to look up to thy light, even from afar, even from the depths. Teach me …

Magnificence: Reflections on a Sacred Passage

In God Makes the Rivers to Flow; An Anthology of the World’s Sacred Poetry & Prose, Eknath Easwaran includes a selection from Psalm 139 entitled “Lord, Thou Hast Searched Me.”  I’ve written the following poem-like reflections inspired by this selection. Magnificence O Lord, Thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, …

Seeing Beauty: Reflections on a Sacred Passage

In God Makes the Rivers to Flow; An Anthology of the World’s Sacred Poetry & Prose,Eknath Easwaran includes a selection from Fakhruddin Araqi entitled “The Shining Essence.”  I’ve written the following poem-like reflections inspired by this selection. Seeing Beauty I look into the mirror and see my own beauty; I see the truth of the universe revealing …

All We’ll Ever See: Reflections on a Sacred Passage

In God Makes the Rivers to Flow; An Anthology of the World’s Sacred Poetry & Prose, Eknath Easwaran includes a selection from the Chandogya Upanishad entitled “This Is the Self.”  I’ve written the following poem-like reflections inspired by this selection. All We’ll Ever See This Self who gives rise to all works, all desires, all odors, all …

Merging with All: Reflections on a Sacred Passage

In God Makes the Rivers to Flow; An Anthology of the World’s Sacred Poetry & Prose,Eknath Easwaran includes a selection from the Chandogya Upanishad entitled “This Is the Self.”  I’ve written the following poem-like reflections inspired by this selection. Merging with All The Self, who can be realized by the pure in heart, who is life, light, …