The Wisdom Verses Podcast

Jan 22 2025 8 ep. 40 mins
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Welcome to The Wisdom Verses Podcast with t.k.!

Who is t.k.? A living myth interrupting ordinariness. Those are perhaps the best words to describe t.k.—the mystic, poet, father, spiritual master, and farmer. Repository of ancient secrets, worker of arcane magics, sage who has gone beyond the touch of birth and death. Those would also be accurate words. In his poems (and in these recordings), t.k. talks to us about the enlightened one’s love affair with appearance. He invites, cajoles, seduces us into a participatory encounter with wisdom bliss.

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Jan 22 2025 39 mins  
In this recording, t.k. discusses this poem:Vanity is the name for seeing higher and lower.There is a name for judgements, it is conceit. Vainglory is the synonym of me and mine.Thank you for the teachings that burned.Thank you for the blessings that stung.Thank you for the grace of knowing loss.In my heart there is no more room for the image of a stranger. Love’s meaning is an i

Rasa Lila

Jan 22 2025 32 mins  
In this episode, t.k. discusses his poem, "Rasa Lila."My hand explores the hemmed edge of your brilliance, true portrait of the Holy Face. And light, Oh! the light, pouring out from mystery. So we dance flowing, always flowingtwirling trembling, intimations. Patterns of ice melt light whenwinter’s frost covered grass meets morning’s warming rays. Patterns forming dissolving. T

Fragile Joys 13

Jan 08 2024 28 mins  
13.Beings are born and die. In spring the plum blossoms and the seeing of plum blossoms.Enfolding unfolding, blossoming and fruiting.The dark revealing, the bright concealing ineach new relation. Each new leaf and flower the totality.Possibility impossibility flow in and of each other and in the secretmost recesses of the Heart unpossibilitynon-darknessunlearningmysteriousenvelopeo

Xuan Xue: The Dark Unlearning, 49

Jan 03 2024 36 mins  
49. A man is lost in the woods. For hours he runs, then stumbles. He looks for turning in ellipses and spirals. Thirst overtakes him. He comes to a glen with two pools of water. One is poison. One is nectar. What happens next is a toss-up. A woman is born in a desert. She wakes up full grown. Sand stretches for as far as the eye can see and further … as far as the mind can imagin

Xuan Xue: The Dark Unlearning, 62

Nov 20 2023 36 mins  
In this AWESOME and PERFECT teaching, t.k. delivers a masterful exposition on emptiness-nothingness-openness as the essence of reality, through explaining his poem:62.There is a homeland of wisdom where my beloved dwells. It is an openness irreducible, untouched by sorrows. It is a place where every thing is lost, and the beloved appears as the everything radiance of without cause.

Fragile Joys 22, 23, 24 - Three Poems of Mori

Oct 16 2023 58 mins  
22. 23. 24. Three poems of Mori:1. Japan, Harvest Moon, fall 1470:sunlight meets chandelier; now things get erotic.everything delights in opening. .the pleasure of colors spill out everywhere. the mood of lucency, moonlight. son of an emperor daughter of a peasant. uncreate mind’s insistence on alternatives (Wave? Particle?). her body, careless across bed. his lips to her warm we

Xuan Xue: The Dark Unlearning, 10

Oct 09 2023 36 mins  
10. A child runs through a field of wildflowers; their eyes fill withbeauty. Another walks an open-air market, St. Rémy deProvence, the smell of olives and ripe melons fills her bodywith a joy. A joy untouched by word. When sense field and sense object meet in innocence, theirunion becomes the swelling forth of Love. How do you knowif they have met in innocence—there is silence.

Xuan Xue: The Dark Unlearning, 31

Oct 02 2023 52 mins  
In this first episode, t.k. graces us with a talk on the meaning and references included in the sublime poem “31” from his book of poetry entitled Xuan Xue: The Dark Unlearning.31.There is a body of sudden openness. It hasno feet, no hand, no face, no form.And it has no alienation of labor and theproduct of labor. Awareness’ work isappearance. Management, that old fraud,the w