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Laughing Brook
Poetry for Sensual Consciousness

Poetry Podcast lachender Bach
And then…

Soft the raven crows
Colourful the heather
Wild washing mossy brook

I let the buzzing buzz
I let the sun grow gold
I kiss the last of daylight
I am he who beholds

POETRY by laughing brook

The River of Life …

Glad you’re here. This moment in life, when we meet. Instead of rushing, pause for a while, let the moment unfold. Let yourself be seduced by a small round of looking, reading – listening. Maybe make it into a big one. Poems to make you ponder – poems about life and feeling alive.

The stream flows through the river bed, and in each episode of this poetry podcast you will find a poem, an intro text and a remix. The stage is set unhurried and leisurely, allowing poetry to flow in its own pace, to jump over rocks and rush and gush down the rocky riverbed of life.

This is the poetry of Laughing Brook. It is meant to inspire reflection on everything that makes life juicy. This is the poet’s search, journey and fascination on his way to meaning, transformation, transcendence, silence, sensuality and – oh yes! – love. Each episode is made with great pleasure and joyful love. Let yourself be inspired, jump in and get into the flow.

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Episodes

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    Toriodal Ambiguation

    Consciousness, Freedom, Meditation

    Awareness is a condition for freedom. But how do I increase my awareness? There is an age-old and proven way to do so which goes by the term meditation. A lot of us associate meditation with the idea of sitting cross-legged in a lotus position with closed eyes. And of course one can do that, and for good reasons. The true magic of meditation, though, is the space it opens up inside of me.
    As Buddhist teacher Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche has put it so nicely, it’s about accessing stillness, silence and spaciousness inside of me. There I find the room to wiggle, which will allow me to chose where I want to go. If I don’t *have to* do something, then I’m truly free to choose. So, follow the white rabbit into the wonderland of becoming aware that you are aware…

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    Give Your Love A Way

    Love, Spirituality, Transformation

    Problem solving is a skill, non-action seems nonsense. And yet, we can get lost in trying to solve problems by scrambling about. For some things cannot be addressed by going at them directly, they need a different path – one that requires some sort of acceptance, stepping back, letting it be and letting go. Then something might open which is beyond our control and sometimes beyond our imagination.
    This is by no means a passive, fatalistic way of being in the world. Just the opposite, it is a way in which I flow with the energies and dynamics of life in a creative way. Such a way might look very different from how I am used to go about things, and that exactly might be what turns it into an exhilarating adventure. All I need to do is get out of my way

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    Explicit

    Alive, Consciousness, Sensuality

    In our Western, especially English speaking culture, we consider everything sensual and sexual as a taboo as far as public discourse is concerned. It is somehow considered dangerous, disturbing or even degrading, and hence we try to ban it from being present in the open. By banning intercourse from discourse, though, we’ve not only thrown out the baby with the bathwater, but the whole bathtub as well.
    There is so much of aliveness lost in trying to ban sexuality and, in it’s wake, what we now deem ”sensuality“ – the term originally refers to ”anything senses“. How could you expect life to be full and real when you are dimming and obstructing your sensors?
    This is a poem and a reflection about how we handle this topic in our culture.

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    Towards the Night

    Consciousness, Death, Letting Go

    Dark and light are intertwined – like in the Yin and Yang symbol. There is power and strength in walking towards the dark deliberately and consciously. And this has nothing to do with being masochistic. It is simply that a lot of things can only be gained for a price I have to pay.
    And there is a magic ingredient to it. In the Yin and Yang symbol there is a tiny spot of light in the dark. That is the spark that shows us the direction in which to go, and in it lies all the difference for why I may choose deliberately to walk towards some darkness.

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    Clouds

    Consciousness, Ego, Letting Go, Now, Spirituality

    What would it be like to be, but be in a very different way, without an ego – this part of us, that says ”I“ and sees everything from a personal perspective? Not to want, not to cling, not to chase – just be? Well now, isn’t that how the world around us ist?
    This state happens to be very much what mindfulness practices and meditation leads us to. This episode has a playful poem that invites you to let your mind go on a journey beyond itself.

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    The Cave

    Consciousness, Letting Go, Spirituality

    A paradox is often pointed out, seemingly as a proof that a certain statement or a thing cannot right or correct. Yet as one ventures down the road of life and looks at what we call reality, paradoxes keep coming along.
    If I bother to be bothered by paradoxes, they can lead me into uncomfortable places where what I know seems to be contradicted – a humbling and unsettling moment. Beyond this feeling of unease, though, lies something which is larger than the world I came from. It’s a bit like going into the pitch black dark of a cave. Who knows what secret is waiting there for me…

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    The Fly

    Alive, Consciousness, Letting Go

    We do the things we do because we are where are. Over the course of my life I have learned a lot about seeing myself and life differently. That has lead me into greater personal freedom. The path, though, is long and there is still so much more to learn.
    For all the things I know and others don’t (just like I didn’t know, not too long ago), it’s easy to get proud and insolent. Yet there is also a choice to become compassionate; an interesting term that literally means „to suffer with someone“. In doing so, I expand myself into the up and the below. But, ah, why make it so complicated. It’s just a fly!

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