No Retreat: poems on the way to waking up
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (574 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0984163468 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 120 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
These poems are like mirrors reminding me what I'm here for and what Nandikesha Jungwirth Caution: the poems herein may cause sudden swells of deep longing to discover and follow wisdom, an incontrovertible experience of your own porousness and continuity with life, and gratitude to be alive at all as the tight knots in your heart begin to burst wide open.Shambhavi Sarasvati's poems are simple and stirring, playful and courageous. Steeping in the stream of No Retreat, I feel carried to a place of untellable confidence: in myself, in the Student-Teacher relationship, and in this whole process of waking up. To. "This book is full of beautiful poems expressing the longings and realization of a sadhaka." according to Sadashiva Stavrum. It's rare that we get to follow a practitioner from the relative to the absolute. From the deep longing, forgetting, and coming and going, to the expansive, open, generous, and clear. The beauty of this book is that it's a companion, a friend, to help us remember that we all walk the path. We all stumble and we all wake up. Pain and joy are all there together. In reading Shambhavi's words, in all of her books, really, I get to taste the beauty that is the spiritual path and have confidence that, though sometimes the pat. "Poems to help you on the path" according to L. Magliocco. From playful to profound, Shambhavi's poems are company, teachings, comfort, and inspiration on the journey of becoming more awake. Her words conjure flashes of recognition, remembrance, and "aha". If you like Rumi and Hafiz, you will love these poems too, written for modern readers in the tradition of spiritual poems with all the longing, love, and humanity this tradition embodies. These are not written from lofty spiritual heights, but from both the hard and soft ground of grace and embodied experience.
"No Retreat is a collection of deep soul thoughts and reflections on the spiritual path and its many nuances. It reads with humor and deep insight and has many wonderful pearls from the heart of personal experience." Acharya Mangalananda, author of A Goddess Among Us; The Divine Life of Anandamayi Ma
She follows in the footsteps of other women spiritual practitioners, such as Mirabai and Lalleshwari, whose devotional poems trace a step-by-step map of the journey to the heart of wisdom. This is a journey fueled by prayer, determination, wonder, lament, praise and unstoppable longing. Written during solo spiritual retreats and periods of the eruption of intense spiritual feeling, Shambhavi's poems report in raw, tender and playful language about our shared human efforts to wake up and discover more of who we are. Most Glorious Teacher,please break down the rock of my defenses.Use a sledgehammer!If these words are insincere,do it anyway. from No Retreat: poems on the way to waking up. Shambhavi Sarasvati is a contemporary devotee, yogini and teacher