Paraphrased from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Sutra 33:
If someone is happy, offer them friendship (share their happiness)
If someone is unhappy, offer them compassion (lighten their suffering)
If someone is virtuous, offer them delight (celebrate their goodness)
If someone is wicked, offer them disregard (give them no reward)In this way, you can yourself be calm and untroubled.
Or something like that …
Leave a CommentWith one word aloud,
the illusion is broken
as the echo fades.
So deep, this still well,
that a small sound is strengthened
and seems so much more.
But echoes will fade;
and in the gaping silence
words do not survive.
The illusion is
that there is one who listens.
Without sound, who knows?
What use is speaking
in such an empty cavern?
My ego needs this?
21 JUL 2006
Leave a CommentWho cries for the gods, who watch
as their intelligent design
is torn and sundered into pieces,
reviled and maligned?
Who cries for the gods, who listen
to the clamour of our voices,
each using free will as excuse
for all our selfish choices?
Who cries for the gods, who linger
in our churches, isolated
from the whole of our daily lives,
their message denigrated?
Who cries for the gods, forgotten
in our rush for selfish glory,
reduced to simple figureheads
and stuff of childrens’ stories?
Who cries for the gods, who hears
the sob of divine separation:
creatrix from created split
for profit and sensation?
Who cries for the gods, who wait
for us to listen once again,
and have all of eternity
to miss what might have been?
for Ramakrishna
21 JUL 2006
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