All posts for the month September, 2010

Another award

Sweet Princess Award 4 Community Members All 2 Awards are given to the following members who are female and have outstanding contribution to jingle’s Thursday Poets Rally or Jingle Poetry Community!

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by Bodhirose on September 30, 2010  •  Permalink
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My first award for Poets’ Rally Week 29

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by Bodhirose on September 30, 2010  •  Permalink
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Inner Child

Tossing and turning in the lingering mugginess of a summer’s night, sleep is elusive. Positioning myself in the moonbeam pattern of light playing across the bed, I somehow now seem cooler there. Staring out through the window, far up into the sky, I search for comfort, a savior– there is none where I rest. The [...]

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by Bodhirose on September 30, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by Bodhirose on September 30, 2010

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TAPPING INTO THE SOURCE

Yogi-posture, ramrod straight, legs crossed in yin-yang shape. Hands held gently at rest on the knees, while fingers posed in mudras help to focus energies. Eyes closed softly, attention on the breath, allowing it freely to tap into the source. Follow the breath, it will show you the way, the truth lies within you beyond [...]

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by Bodhirose on September 26, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by Bodhirose on September 26, 2010

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Nightmare

I have a reoccurring nightmare where I am frantically trying to lock the kitchen door at the house where I grew up, while an unknown, sinister presence is fast approaching and trying to get in at me.  I fumble with the latch, opening and closing the door, and I am beside myself that I just [...]

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by Bodhirose on September 26, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by Bodhirose on September 26, 2010

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Step by Step…

Step by step I journey through this life, climbing countless and steep mountains of one foot after the other. Only to stumble and go tumbling down to come to the place of where I now rest. Go on, go on, keep up, keep up! No matter the deep, depressive darkness that may envelop me, or the brilliant [...]

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by Bodhirose on September 23, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by Bodhirose on September 23, 2010

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The pure, clear white light…

The following is one of my all time favorite passages from “The Tibetan Book of the Dead”. “Remember the clear light, the pure clear white light from which everything in the universe comes, to which everything in the universe returns; the original nature of your own mind.  The natural state of the universe unmanifest.  Let [...]

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by Bodhirose on September 20, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by Bodhirose on September 20, 2010

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The Crashing Down the Mountain Story

While attending “ladies camp” in Espanola, New Mexico one summer, it was decided that we would all take a drive up a nearby mountain and have a picnic and outdoor fresh air.  An old school bus had been chartered to take us up.  I somehow missed the bus that morning though and ended up riding with a [...]

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by Bodhirose on September 13, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by Bodhirose on September 13, 2010

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Sita

Here are photos of my cat, Sita.  She is 13 years old now and in excellent health.  My daughter adopted her when she was an infant kitty.  She was very happy living with us in a small apartment that had an enclosed courtyard around it.  We would let her out to play in the courtyard [...]

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by Bodhirose on September 8, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by Bodhirose on September 8, 2010

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Safety Precautions…

When I lived in Boston, during my ashram days in the 70s, I started carrying a police whistle and a small billy club with me.  While walking alone from my house to the main ashram (which was about two blocks away and around the corner) for our morning yoga and meditation sadhana, I had had a frightening [...]

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by Bodhirose on September 3, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by Bodhirose on September 3, 2010

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