Flowering Wound

Yaisha Vargas-Pérez16/06/201221/06/2012Poetry ❦

by Samadhi Yaisha / before and during workshop Painting for Process in Creative Nectar Studio, Mission, KS, where I painted “Flowering wound” http://www.creativenectar.blogspot.com/

6/16/12

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(Yesterday, before painting)

-I am grateful

-I’ve been blind

-I am light?

-I’ve been angry

-Now I’m kind

-I’ve been pain

-Now I’m calm

-I’ve been ocean

-Now I am, I am

Diving, diving

In myself, I’m about

To jump down the healed wound

Pus and blood before

Then a dry canyon

Now it’s moist again

I can see flowers blossoming

No more pain

Just open, open freedom

And humidity

I am.

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(While sleeping)

For to have known the brightness of Samadhi

I had to learn the dark.

-Die-

And make it mine.

Oh, sweet shadow-lover

You now bring me into the Light.

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(During workshop, while painting)

I left my spiritual home behind.

-Why can’t they come with me?

I asked.

-Because when you die you’re born again naked

Naked on the other side

You are nobody

You have no body

-So the wound is the way back

I asked.

It’s my portal between two worlds

It’s alive

It’s Life itself pouring into me from That

That that I Am.

It pulsates and feeds my heart

It’s the wound

Is not a wound

It is Life

It’s a flower

There’s a flower in my heart.

Is Samadhi.

Is the flower of my Life.

It hurts because I feel it

But it’s not pain in itself

I pain when I resist it

All these years

Resisting Life’s great-fulness

The One wants to flow as me

Now I allow

Flow through me, flow

I’ll celebrate!

And I’ll celebrate even more

When I go back to you

My Source,

with no body, being nobody

I Am again

When I am again Home.

Home.

Published by Yaisha Vargas-Pérez

(Scroll down for English version) ❦ Biografía en español ❦ Mi nombre es Yaisha Vargas-Pérez y soy maestra y mentora de mindfulness certificada por el Greater Good Science Center de la Universidad de California en Berkeley en asociación con Sounds True (Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program MMTCP 2017-2019). El programa está dirigido por Jack Kornfield y Tara Brach. También recibí una certificación profesional (CMT-P) de la Asociación Internacional de Profesores de Mindfulness (IMTA) y completé el programa Mindfulness Mentor Training (MMT 2022), dirigido por Kornfield y Brach, a través de la plataforma Cloud Sangha. Actualmente soy estudiante del programa de capellanía ecológica Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy Program (BEC) del Sati Center for Buddhist Studies en California. El programa está dirigido por Gil Fronsdal, Susie Harrington, Kirsten Rudestam y Ram Appalaraju. Enseño mindfulness en Sagrado Global y el Centro Sofía, ambos en la Universidad del Sagrado Corazón en Puerto Rico. También facilito un grupo de mindfulness comunitario por Zoom. Para ver mi biografía completa, visita www.yaishavargas.com ❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦ ❦ Bio in English ❦ My name is Yaisha Vargas-Pérez and I am a mindfulness teacher and mentor certified by the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California at Berkeley in association with Sounds True (Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program MMTCP 2017-2019). The program is directed by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. I also received a professional certification (CMT-P) from the International Mindfulness Teachers Association (IMTA) and completed the Mindfulness Mentor Training (MMT 2022) program, led by Kornfield and Brach, through the Cloud Sangha platform. I am currently a student in the Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy Program (BEC) at the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies in California. The program is directed by Gil Fronsdal, Susie Harrington, Kirsten Rudestam and Ram Appalaraju. I teach mindfulness at Sagrado Global and Centro Sofía, both at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in Puerto Rico. I also facilitate a community mindfulness group via Zoom. To see my full biography, please visit www.yaishavargas.com View all posts by Yaisha Vargas-Pérez

7 Comments

Vicente Rosa says:

17/06/2012 at 7:24 AM

I have no comment at this moment,I just getting familiar with your page. Thank you.

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Vicente Rosa says:

17/06/2012 at 1:45 PM

Yaisha (original) tu rebeldia con el Cronometro (la cual comparto) te hace convertir las semanas en anos. Estas deliciosas jornadas y veredas que caminas te hacen brotar realidades que los seres humanos guardan y no le permiten dejar rastro….

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1. Samadhi Yaisha says:
  
  18/06/2012 at 10:37 PM
  
  Agradezco tu lectura y tu comentario, sí tengo rebeldía con el cronómetro, aprendí a bloguear luego de que mi jornada empezara y pensé que no era tarde para publicar, espero que pronto esté al día con lo que se va publicando al momento. ¡Gracias!
  
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jennyrising says:

19/06/2012 at 8:24 AM

Beautiful awareness. Thanks for sharing, Samadhi.

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1. Samadhi Yaisha says:
  
  20/06/2012 at 8:22 AM
  
  Thanks for being part of my process of letting it out :))
  
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bneal817 says:

27/06/2012 at 12:02 AM

“The One wants to flow as me”

That’s it! Even in the midst of pain and suffering, the Divine wants to experience it all, in its “great-fulness.” We find healing, freedom, and the joy of union when we stop resisting that flow.

Lovely poem 🙂

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1. Samadhi Yaisha says:
  
  28/06/2012 at 8:15 PM
  
  Thanks! I don’t write poetry in English, this is new for me… I’m just letting it out! 🙂
  
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