Ep 36. - Poetically torturous or tortuously poetic

FAN MAIL - Send us a comment or a topic suggestionNo guest, no co-host, no listener questions, and somehow we still end up with a full map of the mind. I’m MyongAhn Sunim flying solo while Dr. Lambert is tied up, so I reach for the most honest material I have: a stack of poems and rants that hold my earlier urgency, my current doubts, and the small moments that keep practice real.We start with “The Beast Of Time,” a fierce meditation on impermanence that treats time like a hungry animal and spiritual life like an emergency. Then I step back and name what I hear in that voice: a juvenile kind of spirituality that can wake you up, but can also turn into disgust for ordinary life. The turning point is classic Buddhism and Zen: the lotus grows from mud. No mud, no lotus. If daily life is the mud, then awakening depends on meeting it, not fleeing it.From there we move into poems that celebrate mindfulness in the mundane, the felt weight of responsibility in “Monk’s Robe,” and a fast, funny collision of culture and psychology in “Entangled Minds.” “Life Is An Adventure” turns a normal morning into a monster story, and “Merciless Children” asks the hardest question of all: what happens when we drain the great mother that sustains us. We close with the strange true tale behind “The F Word,” sparked by an email that accidentally sent a single letter and created a whole piece about conflict, forgiveness, friendship, and freedom.If you like Zen, Buddhism, meditation, poetry, and practical spiritual growth that doesn’t pretend life is tidy, this one’s for you. Subscribe, share the episode with a friend, and leave a review, then send us the topics or questions you want us to answer next.Support the showDr. Ruben Lambert can be found at wisdomspring.comVen. MyongAhn Sunim can be found at soshimsa.org