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Rinpoche at Esalen II

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Meditation / February 24, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You cannot truly have a meditation
until is is broken he says
I sit deeper than I have ever been
deepened by the 28 kindred souls
as deep as they can go

He hits the crystal bowl
one quick ringing note
A trap door beneath me opens
and I fall

Rinpoche at Esalen

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Esalen, God, Joy, Spirituality / February 23, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Small round happy
Tibetan spirit bubbling
teaching from his words and being
The search for God is everything
but it is not serious

Bone on Bone

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Aging, Bravado, Experience, Healing, Injury, Masculinity, Pain, Therapy / February 22, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The achy side of middle age
Julia Alvarez - The Cemetery of Untold Stories

It is well though untrue to say
my knees got like this from kneeling
though might pray to have them bend again

At Robert Bly's men's gatherings
they pinned a ribbon where each wound
had come from trying to be men

I won't bore you with the many mine
nor gie the younger advice to ignore
as I would have ignored it in my youth
and when they learn put ribbons on
blue ones for pride and red for regret

I’m Ready For My New Hip Now

Audio Recordings, Family, Personal Growth / tagged Conflict, Gratitude, Healing, Perspective / February 21, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I think I have finally forgiven
My old hip for all those years of pain

My mother for her hesitation
to carry me in a time of war

My father for the crossings
between the baler and the shed
and between his will and mine

And have taken also
the first small steps toward gratitude
for how far all three have carried me

Wisdom Ism

Audio Recordings, Family, Personal Growth / tagged Aging, Learning / February 20, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If your parents didn't give you smart
don't lose heart

Just eat your spinach
and peel your eyes
there may still be time for wise

Vortextual

Audio Recordings, Farm, Personal Growth, Ranch Life / tagged Perspective / February 5, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Standing on the prairie
long enough to know

That the middle of nowhere
is also
the center of everywhere

In-Tuition

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Experience, Intuition, Learning / January 2, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Life is kindergarten grade school and uni
You get to play and you have to pay

Life is also learning to listen
to tickles and hunches
and hints and voices beyond the sphere of ear

The cost of this is only in the not

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Missing the Mystery

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Personal Growth / tagged Buddhism, Christianity, Comfort, Faith, Tradition / December 29, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A Protestant at Catholic school
I loved the music of the Mass
and all that ancient Latin singing
and sweet smoke of censer swinging

Our family's King James Bible
remembered that the Psalms were songs
We didn't go to church for news
and there were hymns that rocked the pews

At Esalen om mani padme hum
a praising of the jewel in the lotus
and the striking of Tibetan bowl
did more than math to soothe the soul

The rational mind likes login
but you don't have to take it to church

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Why Children Are Christmas

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Relationships / tagged Imago Therapy, Perspective, Voice Dialogue / December 23, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The gift
of every you
is a point of view

The gift
of every me
is willingness to see

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Turning Point

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Meditation, Perspective / December 22, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I said it's good to see you back
How's your search for all knowing going

She said, I had it down pat
if meditation is where it's at

with breathing below perception
and everything nearing perfection

Then one day on a Kiwi beach
deep in the oneness a loud voice said

"Y

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Sandi Hebley on How Fallen AngelsAugust 17, 2025
Indeed!
Nancy Fierstien on Unremember ThatAugust 16, 2025
Gonna be inclined to share this one at my Poets' Tea reading tomorrow afternoon. Thanks, Neil!
Sandi Hebley on Memory Lane JoggingAugust 5, 2025
Lovely!
Sandi Hebley on Dad and Death at WarAugust 4, 2025
😢
Sandi Hebley on One for the AuntiesAugust 3, 2025
Wow!

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