Readings
Meditation sessions are led by an umdze, or timekeeper, who will often read poems or Buddhist texts for your contemplation. Here is a selection of recent readings.
In Early April
Forsythia foamed for us fifty miles ago, but the farm is stark, a wintry Serengeti.
My nieces' cello, viola and violin beguile us in the parlor where we celebrate
a birthday, their coltish poise poised to --
My father, long dead, would have loved them.
We -- their passionate triptych -- those upwelling melodies -- have already disappeared
as chickadees' crosshatchings on the last of the north-facing, smoke-colored snow.