1. Dharma Teaching in 62 syllables

We are born / We all die / Stormy waves will arise / Precious birth / Human being / We can wake in this dream / Rest in breath / As we ride / The twists and turns of our lives / As we love / As we grieve / As we give / As we leave / Open heart / Open eyes / Open hands / Open mind.

2.  Clear Light

Still your mind / Calm your heart / In compassion rest / Clarity, luminosity / You are clear light / Still my mind / Calm my heart / In compassion rest / Clarity, luminosity / I am clear light / Still our minds / Calm our hearts / In compassion rest / Clarity, luminosity / We are clear light

3.  Circling Waves

Born into the world / Darkness into light / Turning of the days / Turning into nights / Circling waves of light / Circling waves of sound / Stillness in the center / Circling all around / Turning of the planets / Turning of the years / Circling waves of love / Circling waves of tears / Born into the day / Born into the night / Die into the darkness / Die into the light

4. Midnight

Sound echoes on a snow-lit night / Yearning opens like a bird takes flight / It is evening, evening in our lives / Midnight beckons / Her mysteries arise / We walk together and we walk alone / We walk in circles / Still we’re headed home / A game from childhood / Round and round we spin / Darkness enfolds us / As we turn within / Let our hearts open, wide as they can go / Let our minds rest in all that we can’t know / There is a journey with no suitcase and no phone / Stretching forward, itinerary unknown.

5.  Row (Traditional with extra lyrics by Ahbi Vernon)

Row, row, row your boat / Gently down the stream / Merrily, merrily / Life is but a dream/ Some time goes so fast / Some time goes slow / Some time can break your heart and bring you down so low / Star light, star bright / First star I see tonight / Wish I may, wish I might / Have this wish I wish tonight / Sky above, earth below / The dance of night and day / All the dreamers come to rest / Each one finds a way.

6.  In Sorrow

It’s easy for hearts to get broken / So easy for us to lose our way / It’s so tender, this yearning to be open / Open as we go from day to day / In sorrow, we gather together / Our hearts like flowers in the snow / In sorrow, we gather together / Together we will find the way to go / Come all us tender, broken people / Come all of us, our hearts like lamps that glow / Come all us tender, open people / Together we will find the way to go

7. Om Tare Tutarre Ture Soha 

Om Tare Tutarre Ture Soha / May excellent enlightened activity unfold unceasingly / Dissolve the loneliness deep within / Luminous tenderness without end / Wake us from confusion’s dreams / Luminous tenderness of our mindstreams / May all our suffering come to cease / Open, open endless peace / Open, open spacious peace/ Open, open vibrant peace / Open, open tender peace / Open, open endless peace

8. Ocean, River, Boat, Swimmer

Time like a river streaming / We ride it’s currents awake or dreaming / Space like a widening ocean / We rest inside the endless motion / Liquid light lies on the water / Like the promise of a lover / We are the ocean / We are the river / We are the boat / And we’re the swimmer

9. Carry Us

Can you let the love around you carry you / Can you let the love inside you carry you / The dreams of your heart are changing now / Sometimes our hearts feel so alone / sometimes our hearts feel all alone / It’s so hard to say goodbye / May love hold us now / May love enfold us now

10.  Om Grow up Svaha (based on teachings of Jennifer Wellwood)

Oh 'disillusioned one / Oh disappointed one / Oh can’t say ‘no’ one / Oh can’t say ‘yes’ one / Oh collapsed one / Oh self centered one / Oh filled with blame one / Oh filled with hopelessness / Oh resentful one / Oh withholding one / Oh impatient one / Oh ‘I give up’ one / The tenderest of mercies / The heart of bodhicitta / The fierce form of mercy / The heart of bodhicitta / Yield to compassion / Yield to wisdom / Yield to bliss emptiness / Yield to luminosity