Hair

By Debra Basham, on January 19, 2021

Keep a watchful eye for spiritual materialism. Don’t look for a goal, but practice meditation nevertheless.

Don’t try to push your ideas, don’t dictate, and don’t edit the dharma, the truth and the teachings.

The dharma is yours, so you could relate to the dharma very simply.

Let dharma come to […]

January 19, 2021 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Yellow Brick Road | Comments are closed

Learn the Tables

By Debra Basham, on April 22, 2019

Recently I wrote a poem titled ‘Longing’ that was inspired by an exchange with a dear friend that left me feeling less than valued, wondering if I should have, or could have, done something differently in our past to allow for a more pleasant current exchange.

Sitting heart-to-heart with another precious friend a week […]

April 22, 2019 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Yellow Brick Road | Comments are closed

Milarepa’s Muses

By Debra Basham, on July 17, 2018

I am in a poetry writing group. We are working our way through The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop by Diane Lockward. Craft Tip #12 is about the uses of myth. “Milarepa’s Muses” is based on The Non-Duality of Coming to Know the Light Within the Darkness; Age of Kali , a talk given […]

July 17, 2018 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Yellow Brick Road | Comments are closed