Weekly Reading

Cultivating the Empty Field

When the stains from old habits are exhausted, the original light appears, blazing through through your skull, not admitting any other matters. Vast and spacious, like sky and water merging during autumn, like snow and moon having the same color, this field is without boundary, beyond direction, magnificently one entity without edge or seam. Further, when you turn within and drop off everything completely, realization occurs.
-Zen Master Hongzhi

Weekly Reading

“St. Francis and the Sow”

The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self blessing; though sometimes it is necessary to re-teach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on the brow of the sow, and retell it in words and in touch, it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing.
-Galway Kinnell

Weekly Reading

“Darkness”
-The Necessity of Darkness

The next time you are feeling spiritually dark, remember that our hearts started beating in the darkness of the womb, seeds germinate in the darkness of the earth, and the earth rests in the darkness of winter so that spring can return. We all need fallow time. Darkness is a gift – it’s a great open space in which anything can happen. Surrender to it and the light will return.

Weekly Reading

Let us swing wide all the doors and windows of our hearts on their rusty hinges so we may learn how to open in love.

Let us see the light in one another and honor it, so we may lift one another on our shoulders and carry each other along.

Let holiness move in us so we may pay attention to its small voice and give ourselves fully with both hands.

-Donna Markova