by Robin Bloor | Aug 3, 2023 | Readings, The Lost Herald
A Meditating Statue The Tao Te Ching Chapter 39 The highest good is like water,Which benefits all thingsAnd does not compete with them.It stays in the lowly placesThat all men disdain.Therefore it is near to the Tao. The Tao is like a well:It is always there,But it is...
by Robin Bloor | Jun 26, 2023 | Readings, The Lost Herald
The Inner Shrine I Corinthians 13 In the text below we have substituted the word “charity” with the word “love” – meaning love in the sense of “agape.” Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not Love, I...
by Robin Bloor | May 27, 2023 | Readings, The Lost Herald
Two Wolves The Inner Battle In the twilight of a cool American evening, beneath the watchful gaze of the crescent moon, an old Cherokee chief named Akecheta sits near the crackling fire, embers dancing upward into the starry sky. His grandson, Takoda, a growing boy...
by Robin Bloor | Apr 27, 2023 | Readings, The Lost Herald
Children, a photograph of a kind Kindness Before you know what kindness really isyou must lose things,feel the future dissolve in a momentlike salt in a weakened broth.What you held in your hand,what you counted and carefully saved,all this must go so...
by Robin Bloor | Mar 23, 2023 | Readings, The Lost Herald
An Alpine Guest House The Guest House Being human you are as a guest house.Every morning a new arrival. A joy or depression or a meanness,or some momentary awareness comesas an unexpected visitor. Welcome them all and entertain them!Even if they are a gang of...
by Robin Bloor | Feb 27, 2023 | Readings, The Lost Herald
A Damascus Sword-maker It was not purity but impuritythat lent strength to these swords,ingots of iron with carbontraced in tungsten and vanadium. Folds upon folds ran through each blade,rivers of darkness and lightshimmering like moonbeams on water. Stronger and...