“Abandon and Coexist — Two Meditation Poems Read Aloud”

Join along for a reading of two companion poems: “Abandon” and “Coexist.” The first calls on us to shed our attachments, pride, and cunning until we become as simple and innocent as a child. The second celebrates the beauty that emerges when people give freely, believe in each other, and transform together from incompletion to completion.

Video Transcript

We together now abandon and coexist we’ll begin with the poem of andy it is with great artist that I say to you abandon your attachments abandon your discernments abandon what you know abandon your pride abandon anything and everything and your subconscious that moves you completely remove the fundamental roots of all your thoughts be simple.

Innocent be like a child be a person that knows nothing abandon your curiosity do not be cunning abandon wealth and prosperity such things are what sicken you that are your worst enemies and the poem co-exist I who does not possess and beautiful I who can give everything.

Beautiful you who does not possess are beautiful you who can give everything are beautiful we who do not seek from each other are beautiful we who help each other are beautiful we are always together we are beautiful we can do together we are beautiful we who transform pain to happiness are beautiful we who transform impure to peeler are beautiful we who believe in each other are beautiful.

We who love nature are beautiful we who transformed from incompletion to completion are beautiful people are beautiful nature is beautiful the universe is beautiful coexistence.

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