Bodhisattva - Won't You Take Me By The Hand?
When one understands that he causes some of his own suffering, needlessly, then he looks for the causes in his own life.
And when he looks for those causes, when he investigates, then he is putting confidence in his own ability to eliminate the sources and end the suffering.
A wish to find a path to peace arises. For all beings desire happiness. All wish to find their purest selves.
- From the film ‘Kundun’
Happy Birthday Your Holiness.
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23 April ‘05
... This is what I conclude - you can’t connect with another person. It’s all about the self – it’s about my blood, my tears, my sweat, the fishiness of my own fluid.
It’s about the little pool that is you connecting to the larger pool through nature or through music, a film, a book. And even when it is through the man-made, you don’t connect with the human creator but only with the vibrations that the work builds in time-space.
How can you feel that connectedness with life, with the universe with another person? It is unreasonable to even ask for it or think it possible.
posted by cactusjump @ 9:13 AM
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7 Comments:
No man is an island, entire of itself
every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main
if a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were,
as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were
any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind
and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls
it tolls for thee.
-- John Donne
Parna
lemongrass.blogdrive.com
How horrifying to vibrate alone!
It's only that I cannot find my tuning fork,
Till then I am out of tone,
And twisting in fate's eternal torque.
Hi CJ! Haven't been around lately. Been too caught up in other things. And yeah - I think that you are so right about it - you connect with something else only in your understanding of it, not what the creator intended it to be
the more things change, the more they remain the same ...
yaa...and even if u do connect at some point in time...it just fades away over time...
bips
parna: Thank you for taking the time to post this. I am touched and have read it several times.
FR: You poet genius you! Watch out or I might just fall for you ;)
Uber: That too, but what I meant with is that you connect only with the work and not with the human behind it.
succubus: arree yaar - main hoon na to keep you company!
bob/bips: Being cynical is easy, keeping the faith is hard!
Tough one to figger out. Wish I could.
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