Tag Archives: meditation

Awakening

Posted on August 8, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Dawn blushes upon the sight of her lover and her lover stretches to receive her; people wake up and go about their day while above and surrounding them, love and magic love and magic © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National … Continue reading →

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Sometimes I marvel at how twisted life can be

Posted on August 1, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Sometimes I marvel at how twisted life can be confusing, fearful, yet amazing; when I get beyond myself, I see infinite points of contemplation © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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The path to thinking you are a machine

Posted on July 22, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

When you place such importance on speed, many things are sacrificed along the way first: the breath second: the senses third: the grounding © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged awareness, breath, contemplation, efficiency, machine, meditation, robot, senses, speed, writing | 4 Comments

Getting beyond the self

Posted on July 12, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Spend a week contemplating infinity; return to this when God seems small © Meisaan Chan

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Rippling out

Posted on June 20, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

The mind, finally: a mirror lake your word: rippling out © Meisaan Chan

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Go out to the edge of the lake

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Go, row out to the edge of the lake go out with your little light and behold the light you cannot make not one, nor a million’s million © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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The massage prayer

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

O Lord, lay your holy hands on me and through your touch turn this stone back into flesh and as you work may my heart turn warm and supple and my spirit, in a breath, relent © Meisaan Chan

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Enter into me, says the Presence

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Enter into me, says the Presence take off your armor then your clothes then your skin then the impossible! – your protesting all barriers removed: calm, stormy one, calm for I am the mirror sea enter into me © Meisaan … Continue reading →

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How hard it is to maintain stillness

Posted on February 9, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

How hard it is to maintain stillness but that is where all clarity is found © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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Remembrance

Posted on January 19, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Posted in Poetry, Spiritual poetry | Tagged contemplation, help, meditation, remembrance, surrender | Leave a comment