Raking Light

What often draws our attention to the possibilities of greater freedom is not a pleasant sound, but something more annoying and bothersome, like an incessant buzzing you can't quite put into words.

When it's time to run headlong into a new life, what will we leave behind?

A short story about joy, longing, and preciousness in a father-daughter relationship.

A poem about the psychological space that a poem creates.

When we sit in the fire of change, we enrich the ground of our lives and make space for new creative powers to emerge.

In this meditation, we’ll use a poem from Rilke’s Book of Hours to help us describe the pain of loneliness, as well as the courage to surrender to the presence of a love we cannot see.

In this meditation, we’ll use Rumi’s poem The Guest House to help us open our hearts to our more difficult emotions, and open the door to feeling more fully alive.

Pain is a gift. It’s purpose is to draw your attention to something that isn’t right, something that needs your love and your care. Running from pain doesn’t make it go away; it only numbs you. Honor your pain. Let it work on you. Pain is a blessing with the power to bring you healing. It's your portal to the divine.

When you lose touch with your imagination, the world cannot see or hear you. Reclaiming your creative power begins with remembering a time in your life when you felt the freedom to play. To the curious child that lives inside you, everything is new. Cultivating your childlike wonder brings you fully alive in the world.

Guided meditations with Michael Namkung that will cast a gentle raking light over the surfaces of our lives—a transitional light that comes from the horizon, in the way the sun slowly rises to bring what was dark into the higher relief of our awareness.