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Thở vào biết thở vào Thở ra biết thở ra Hơi thở vào đã sâu Hơi thở ra đã chậm Thở vào tôi thấy khỏe Thở ra tôi thấy nhẹ Thở vào tâm tĩnh lặng…
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
The Five Remembrances/1
One of Thích Nhất Hạnh’s compositions, based on the Buddha’s teachings, is “The Five Remembrances.” Here’s the first: I am of the nature to grow old; there is no way to escape growing old.
Reading
In reading, you must keep your mind glued to the text. Only when every sentence and every character falls into place have you done a good job of thinking through the work. In general, the…
Passing
I get a daily Google Alert For Harold Bloom One of my favorite writers I read this morning of a brilliant, gifted, recent Yale graduate Named Marina Keegan Who died Saturday in a car wreck…
That Day at Café Ventana
What I really want to say is Lindsey, thank you For sitting here Sunshining at Café Ventana All those wrist bracelets that have 33 stories behind them All those memories of El Salvador Paralleling my…
Arabic Mantra
When you feel like you’re far from home and you are When you choose to breathe in and breathe out When you approach a preoccupied stranger in the sooq When you see a five-year-old boy…
Three Poems by Hồ Chí Minh
Advice to Oneself Without the cold and desolation of winter There could not be the warmth and splendor of spring. Calamity has tempered and hardened me, And turned my mind to steel.
Reading/Writing/Seeing
for Emily, Kelley, and Lindsay 1. In reality every reader is, while she is reading, the reader of her own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to…
This Palestinian Life
Mounif is calling me In America From Qatar About Fahim’s martyrdom In Beirut And burial In Kuwait And about the necessity Of informing Sitti Umm ‘Ata In Deir Ghassanah And his maternal grandmother In Nablus…
M. K. Gandhi & Sri Anandamayi Ma
Through the sincere efforts of both Kamal Nehru and Sethji, a meeting was arranged between Ma and Mahatma Gandhi. Upon entering his room, Ma cried out, “Father! Your crazy daughter has come to visit you!”…