YBites

There are many different ways to meditate. One simple, timeless, but still challenging, method is to count the breath.

'Viciously, then, I lock my door.
The gas-fire breathes. The wind outside
Ushers in evening rain. Once more
Uncontradicting solitude
Supports me in its giant palm;
And like a sea-anemone
Or simple snail, there cautiously
Unfolds, emerges what I am.'

Love after Love

'The time will come

When, with elation,

you will greet yourself arriving

at your own door, in your own mirror,

and each will smile at the other's welcome.

and say, sit here. Eat.

You will love again the stranger who was your self.

Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart

Keeping Quiet

Now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still.

For once on the face of the earth,
let's not speak in any language;
let's stop for one second
and not move our arms so much.

'Forget about enlightenment.
Sit down wherever you are
And listen to the wind singing in your veins.
Feel the love, the longing, the fear in your bones.
Open your heart to who you are, right now,
Not who you would like to be,
Not the saint you are striving to become,
But the being right here before you, inside you, around you.