Different traditions call it different things
but it is the same task: Use your voice
© Meisaan Chan
Vanquishing evil spirits
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, Food addiction, Haiku/haiku-esque poetry, meditation, PTSD, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, writing
Tagged demons, evil, help, help me, protection, safety, spirits
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Parable of the woman who believed all was One
There once was a woman who believed that everything was One and so she stopped caring about suffering or injustice or the desecration of the earth. Instead, she sat on her meditation cushion and listened to the screams coming in through her window and meditated on how the screaming was, also, part of the One. Then she went to sleep.
© Meisaan Chan
Posted in contemplation, Parable, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, Spoken word meditations, writing
Tagged anger, hypocrites, injustice, justice, social justice, suffering
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The lesson of love
The lesson of love is to let yourself go
so you can come to the self
so you can come to what is larger
© Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, Food addiction, Haiku/haiku-esque poetry, meditation, PTSD, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, writing
Tagged ego, help, help me, infinity, love, Relationships, surrender, wholeness
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The humility prayer
What you want, Lord
might not be what I want –
so teach me, please
© Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, Food addiction, Haiku/haiku-esque poetry, PTSD, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, writing
Tagged consciousness, ego, humility, openness, pride, surrender
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There is nothing wrong with being hungry
If you’re hungry, come to me
if you’re not hungry, come to me
and I will show you how you are
There is nothing wrong with being hungry, says the Lord –
that is how I call
Don’t try to annihilate your hunger;
investigate, what is the root?
Likely: hunger for transcendence
which I alone can fill
© Meisaan Chan
The path begins to reveal itself
“The path begins to reveal itself”
I thought I was wandering in a tallgrass prairie
when really I was on the pathless path
© Meisaan Chan
Posted in addiction, anxiety, contemplation, Food addiction, Haiku/haiku-esque poetry, PTSD, Rumi-esque, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, Spiritual search, writing
Tagged adventure, comfort, eternity, help, help me, home, infinity, journey, lost, love, path
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