Guided practices:
poetry and practice - the offering
Guided practices help us to pause, rest, focus and deeply experience the present moment of our life. They remind us to come back to ourselves over and over, so that resting our presence in our body becomes a habit.
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Wishing you much joy and ease in your practice,
Orlaith
the offering
This poem by Pete Armstrong is a meditation on being transformed by insightful wisdom of the heart.
May you receive transformative offerings that bring the beauty of the rainbow to your being.
I heard this question one time in the island grove
where we were gathered in the early morning:
‘How does a perfect teaching work?’
An offering dropped gently into my being
as though into the clarity of water;
it was itself as transparent as water
so that its slow progress down was visible
only as the slightest ripple in the stillness.
At a certain depth
the offering transformed in a moment
into shimmering blues and greens and reds,
a kaleidoscope of bubbles and colour,
spreading out,
bringing the beauty of the rainbow to my being,
softly exquisite and benign,
lingering on and on and on.