On Breathing
Claire Coveney
"At the end of the exhale
Breath surrenders to quietude.
For a moment you hang in the balance -
Suspended
In the fertile spaciousness
That is the source of breath.
At the end of the inhale,
Filled with the song of the breath,
There is a moment when you are simply
Holding the tender mystery.
In these interludes,
Experience opens into exquisite vastness
With no beginning and no end.
Embrace this infinity wtihout reservation.
You are its vessel. "
from a translation of the Vigyana Bhairava Tantra - called the Radiance Sutras.