These sixty poems on the Buddha's six "perfections," or qualities for a meaningful life—generosity, kindness, patience, joy, stillness, wisdom—were written over years of yoga and meditation practice, inspired by Tibetan Heart Yoga, nature, Buddhism, Osho, Tantra, ancient Japanese and Chinese poetry, Rumi, Kabir, haiku, love, and life.
They seek to capture a journey from the physical body to the subtle body to the light body, until the heart bursts open into the beautiful radiance of divine energy in the world.
Leza Lowitz is the award-winning author/editor/translator of over fifteen books on Japan, including Yoga Poems: Lines to Unfold By and Sacred Sanskrit Words (with Reema Datta). A long-time teacher and practitioner of yoga and meditation, she owns the popular Sun and Moon Yoga studio in Tokyo.