hum

I’ve lived in
Acton, Battersea, Bow
Chelsea, Clapton, Ealing
Earl’s Court, Elephant & Castle, Hackney Wick
Highbury, Kensal Green, Kensal Rise
Kilburn, Maida Vale, Notting Hill
Queen’s Park, South Ealing, Stamford Brook
Stoke Newington, West Kensington and Whitechapel
yet I’m still …

“I am going to take a walk outside the wall, for I have been sitting (…) the whole morning; and our common friend Acumenus tells me that it is much more refreshing to walk in the open air than to be shut up in a cloister.”

I want two
arms to wrap
themselves around me

when I cry

yours are the
only ones I
can think of

perhaps I will
use my own …

Yes! it works!
I can hug
me by myself!

19:2-5
Ha-sha-my-im meh-sa-peh-rim ka-vohd Kail,
U-mah-ah-say ya-dive mah-gid ha-ra-ki-ah.
Yom-le-yom ya-bee-ah oh-mer,
Va-ly-la le-ly-la ya-cha-vey da-aht.
Ain-oh-mer va-ain deh-va-rim,
Beh-li nish-mah ko-lahm.
Beh-kawl-ha-ah-retz ya-tzah ka-vahm,
U-vik-tzay tay-vail me-lay-hem.

34:13-15
Mi-ha-ish hey-chah-faytz chah-yim,
Oh-hayv yah-mim li-rote tov?
Neh-tzor le-shon-chah may-rah,
Uus-fah-tay-chah mi-dah-bayr mir-mah.
Sur may-rah va-ah-say-tov,
Ba-kaysh sha-lom va-rad-fay-hu.

18:26-27
Im-chah-sid, tit chah-sahd,
Im-ga-var ta-mim, ti-ta-mahm,
Im-na-var, tit-bah-rar,
Va-im-ee-kaysh, tit-pah-tal.

150:4-6
Hal-le-lu-hu ba-tof u-ma-chol,
Hal-le-lu-hu ba-mi-nim va-u-gav.
Hal-le-lu-hu ba-tzil-tz-lay sha-mah,
Hal-le-lu-hu ba-tzil-tz-lay ta-ru-ah.
Kol han-sha-ma ta-ha-lail Yah,
Ha-le-lu-yah.

Turn from evil, and do good,
Seek peace and pursue it.
…
Let all that breathes praise the Eternal

Mary

London Buddhist Centre

“The acceptance of suffering is a journey into death. Facing deep pain, allowing it to be, taking your attention into it, it is to enter death consciously. When you have died this death, you realise that there is no death - and there is nothing to fear. Only the ego dies.”

Tree is company

You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait. You need not even wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.