“Marisa stunningly transmits aspects of the Mystery with each poem, speaking from what she knows in the depth of her Being. These pointers move the heart deeply, encouraging transcendence of the everyday mind and evoking contact with our deeper nature. Her “songs of awakening” carry on an ancient tradition, helping modern seekers touch the freedom of realization.”
Tina Rasmussen, PhD, co-author of Practicing the Jhanas
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“Each poem in this collection is a portal into the mystery…a meditation on encountering this living, dying world with freshness, courage and wonder.”
Tara Brach, PhD, bestselling author of Trusting the Gold and Radical Compassion
“Songs of Awakening fulfills the promise of the title. This wonderful collection of poems points to the experience of awakening with such grace and simplicity that it opens the way to our own deepening realization.”
Joseph Goldstein, author of Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening
“These profound teachings are like windows into the ultimate. They come from and draw us unto a depth of awakening. They can be read again and again, each time a fresh opening.”
Rick Hanson, PhD, psychologist and NYT Bestselling author of Buddha’s Brain
“In Songs of Awakening, Marisa shares her heart through this collection of lovely poems. Poems to be read, re-read and savored, a pleasure to read and contemplate as we move deeper into listening to our hearts and minds.”
Sharon Salzberg, NYT Bestselling author of Real Happiness
“Marisa reveals her first awakening to us through her beautiful prose. Each poem points the reader toward that mystery tucked deeply in each of our consciousness – the source of all – the Absolute. Journey with Marisa as she touches into and reveals her direct experience of awakening.”
Stephen Doetsu Snyder, Zen and Theravada Buddhist teacher, author of Demystifying Awakening, Buddha’s Heart, and co-author of Practicing the Jhanas. AwakeningDharma.org
book Introduction
Our deepest intelligence lies beyond the thinking mind.
Songs of Awakening evolved over a four year period in the process of uncovering the unified nature of reality. The teachings captured in Marisa’s book unexpectedly arose while she was training in meditation during long periods of silent retreat.
Each meditation teaching in Songs of Awakening has been carefully matched with photographs taken by her mother, Christina Giebisch. It is their hope that this braiding together of images and text offers readers a new landscape through which to explore the expansive terrain of the human experience.
Each poem stands as an invitation to open to a sense of embodied spaciousness, wonder, and possibility.
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