From Orgyen Hermitage,
nestled in the lea of the rugged Kaimai range,
cradled in this fleeting appearance called Bay of Plenty,
some words of heartfelt aspiration.

May all beings, everywhere,
be graced with the knowing of loving presence.
Soldiers and weapons makers and politicians and financiers and corporate executives, scientists and artists, healers of myriad modalities, farmers and factory workers, employed and unemployed, obscenely rich and desperately poor, homed and homeless, infants and aged, religious and agnostic, greedy and generous, healthy and ill, able and disabled, emotionally balanced and mentally disturbed, physically incarcerated and nominally freed;
May all of us be strengthened with deeply felt kindness.
May we know the blessing of living lightly on the earth.
May we use our current circumstances, however they may be,
to share beauty with those around us.
May we never close our eyes to suffering and, in the face of whatever we do,
remember our kinship with this planet wide sangha of life and living.

In the immeasurable expanse of nature-in-process,
In faith and trust and wonderment,
We give ourselves to this suchness,
This seamless mystery of birthing/dying.

Spacious, loving,
With feet solid in the earth,
We nurture the hints at blessedness,
The myriad faces and masks of luminous knowing.

Moving as this flow of compassion and deepening enquiry,
We engage with all beings, in ways that support
The integrity, the stability and the beauty,
Of the entire field of life and living.

with season’s greetings and warm good wishes to all of you
Tarchin and Mary

(Here are few photos of Orgyen taken yesterday.)