Daily Lectio Divina: Isaiah 43:7

Daily Lectio Divina: Isaiah 43:7

Repost of Episode 605

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re reading Isaiah 43:7.

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Daily Lectio Divina: Isaiah 43:5-6

Daily Lectio Divina: Isaiah 43:5-6

Repost of Episode 604

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re reading Isaiah 43:5-6.

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Daily Lectio Divina: Isaiah 43:3-4

Daily Lectio Divina: Isaiah 43:3-4

Repost of Episode 603

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re reading Isaiah 43:3-4.

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Daily Lectio Divina: Isaiah 43:2-3

Daily Lectio Divina: Isaiah 43:2-3

Repost of Episode 602

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re reading Isaiah 43:2-3.

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Daily Lectio Divina: Isaiah 43:1

Daily Lectio Divina: Isaiah 43:1

Repost of Episode 601

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re beginning a new series on Isaiah 43. Today we’re reading Isaiah 43:1.

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Daily Lectio Divina: Crossing the lake from South Mountain to North Mountain

Daily Lectio Divina: Crossing the lake from South Mountain to North Mountain

Repost of Episode 389

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on the ancient form of Chinese poetry called shan-shui, or Rivers-and-Mountains, using selections from The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-yun.  Today we’re using a selection from “Crossing the lake from South Mountain to North Mountain.”

Isn’t this how heaven and earth touch us,
this exquisite burgeoning forth of things:

young bamboo still wrapped in green slips
and new rushes fluttering purple flowers…?

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Daily Lectio Divina: Dwelling in the mountains #27

Daily Lectio Divina: Dwelling in the mountains #27

Repost of Episode 388

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on the ancient form of Chinese poetry called shan-shui, or Rivers-and-Mountains, using selections from The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-yun.  Today we’re using a selection from “Dwelling in the mountains #27.”

I devoted myself to Way long ago, when I was still young,
awakening to the love all beings naturally feel for life,

and was led by this to see it throughout the realm of things.

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Daily Lectio Divina: On a tower beside the lake

Daily Lectio Divina: On a tower beside the lake

Repost of Episode 387

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on the ancient form of Chinese poetry called shan-shui, or Rivers-and-Mountains, using selections from The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-yun.  Today we’re using a selection from “On a tower beside the lake.”

Isolate dwelling so easily becomes forever.
It’s hard settling the mind this far apart,

but not something ancients alone master:
that serenity is everywhere apparent here.

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Daily Lectio Divina: Returning across the lake from our monastery at Stone-Screen Cliff

Daily Lectio Divina: Returning across the lake from our monastery at Stone-Screen Cliff

Repost of Episode 386

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on the ancient form of Chinese poetry called shan-shui, or Rivers-and-Mountains, using selections from The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-yun.  Today we’re using a selection from “Returning across the lake from our monastery at Stone-Screen Cliff.”

When worry ends, things take themselves lightly,
and when thoughts lull, the inner pattern abides.

I offer this to adepts come refining their lives:
try this old Way of mine, make it search enough.

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Daily Lectio Divina: There are towering peaks on every side of my spirit’s true home atop Stone-Gate Mountain’s impossible crags, winding streams and rocky falls, thick forests and tall bamboo

Daily Lectio Divina: There are towering peaks on every side of my spirit’s true home atop Stone-Gate Mountain’s impossible crags, winding streams and rocky falls, thick forests and tall bamboo

Repost of Episode 385

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on the ancient form of Chinese poetry called shan-shui, or Rivers-and-Mountains, using selections from The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-yun.  Today we’re using a selection from “There are towering peaks on every side of my spirit’s true home atop Stone-Gate Mountain’s impossible crags, winding streams and rocky falls, thick forests and tall bamboo.”

Slant light igniting cliffs never lasts long,
and echoes vanish easily in forest depths:

letting go of sorrow returns us to wisdom,
seeing the inner pattern ends attachment.

…these aren’t things people understand:
I need to talk them over with a true sage.

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