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Part 1: Finding the Flow
24 poems, meant to be read in order.
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When we first get on “the path,” everything is new and we seem to “go into the flow” so easy. A lot of the lessons we learn are more about the mechanics of meditating, such as staying in the “now.”
Portfolio -> Bottle in the River -> Part 1: Finding the Flow

Morning Dream  [E]   1.1 KB
The morning rain is good for the dry garden, but bad for the planned picnic!

Yea Plunge  [E]   1.9 KB
The fingertips of “that I am” send sailing a bottle that lands in a river.

Journatation  [E]   2.1 KB
Introducing the art of journaling as a form of meditation.

Gravity  [E]   1.1 KB
Learning impermanence raises a new question: What causes the river to run?

Winter  [E]   1.3 KB
When the river freezes, it's like we can walk on water!

The Concept: Reality  [E]   1.6 KB
What is the river? The banks or the water itself? Or is it the force causing it to flow?

Now  [E]   1.6 KB
When did the water turn to steam?

Transition  [E]   1.1 KB
The Poet searches for that point in time prior to the future and just after the past!

Swimming  [E]   1.6 KB
Meditation is at times very frustrating, a struggle against the past and the future.

Geometry  [E]   2.0 KB
Journaling, as a form of meditation, can open the window to the Muse. But is it safe?

Eve  [E]   1.4 KB
In case listening for the Muse isn't safe, the Poet explores the first of many religions.

Transformation  [E]   1.3 KB
In architecture, borrowing a solution for your own design is called "transformation."

Conversation  [E]   1.3 KB
In a conversation with Jesus, the Poet “releases the lies.”

Orthodoxy  [E]   1.1 KB
About those nuts as well as those that protect us!

Cookbook People  [E]   1.7 KB
Missing from the cookbook: how to light the fire!

One Meaning  [E]   1.4 KB
The Poet decides he just can't commit to one meaning for life.

Bottle in the River  [E]   1.4 KB
The Poet asks the Reader to help him catch the bottle.

Letter  [E]   2.7 KB
In the bottle is a letter . . . .

Message In the Bottle  [E]   1.5 KB
A legendary monk crossed a body of water riding on an oar. Perhaps he was a Poet Warrior!

Discipline  [E]   1.9 KB
Discipline can be helpful, until we become attached to discipline.

Exasper  [E]   2.7 KB
Sometimes we let our assumptions ruin our own moments.

The Poet Warrior  [E]   1.5 KB
Crashing onto the bank, the Poet thinks his poems are the Arms of the Poet Warrior.

Stuck  [E]   1.5 KB
The Poet longs for the euphoria that meditation used to bring.

Un-repressing  [E]   1.3 KB
Warning: “cleaning your closet” brings monsters into the rest of the house!