Singularity, poem by Marie Howe
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Karaniya Metta Sutta: The Buddha’s Words on Loving-Kindness
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Sayings from ‘The Discipline of Relationship’ section of Training in Compassion:
Don’t be tricky
Don’t wait in ambush
Don’t make gods into demons
Don’t rejoice in others’ pain
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Posts from previous discussion nights:
Uncertainty, by Brigid Normand
When circumstances change abruptly
or the world itself changes,
when you no longer know
where you might be
or how life might be
a month from now
a year from now.
can you allow the uncertainty
to rise and fall like the tide
sweeping the beach of your mind
washing it clean of the
flotsam and jetsam
of your thoughts?
Can you allow it to leave
a flat smooth stretch of sand
just for a while,
or to shape delicate patterns-
traces of the lapping waves of time-
that will disappear when the water returns!
Can you trust that with each tide
you can be renewed,
that with each tide
you can begin again?
Can you sit with this moving water,
the manifest energy of the moon?
Can you sit with the turning of the earth
with the coming and going of the wind
with the sun breaks and clouds?
Can you become the tide,
be one with the flow?
Can you live into the knowing
that uncertainty
is just the sea you swim in?
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