Category Archives: writing

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 … Continue reading

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The lesson of love

The lesson of love is to let yourself goso you can come to the selfso you can come to what is larger © Meisaan Chan

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The humility prayer

What you want, Lordmight not be what I want –so teach me, please © Meisaan Chan

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Listening and attention are fused

Listening and attention are fused:When split, the house falls © Meisaan Chan

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There is nothing wrong with being hungry

If you’re hungry, come to meif you’re not hungry, come to meand 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, … Continue reading

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The path begins to reveal itself

“The path begins to reveal itself”I thought I was wandering in a tallgrass prairiewhen really I was on the pathless path © Meisaan Chan

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This is who I am today.

This is who I am today.Which might be different than who I am tomorrow.The self can get trapped in rutsor set loose upon the plains, can run wild, free © Meisaan Chan

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My soul shouts at full voice

Before I chronicle the things you didI pause to recollect who you are:The One, the Magnificent, the All-Wonderfuland sit in praise, my soul shouting at full voiceuntil the walls come tumbling down © Meisaan Chan

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The goal is not to know my will

You truly do not know my will, says the Lord,you who sees the speck –so the goal is not to know my willbut to do my willwhich can be done in blindness © Meisaan Chan

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Of course all things are possible

Of course the impossible is possible! says the Lordfor it was you who gave it that label, not I © Meisaan Chan

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