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Trash

 

There is a trash can.

It is dumb, and only you can give it a voice.

You look at things like this

but can you really name them?

Look deeper.

 

On a diner counter by your elbow

A discarded and used polystyrene cup.

A disposable someone else’s nuisance.

Yet if you do not know the nature of cup.

Why bother with words

Such as disposable or polystyrene?

It only appears here as a polystyrene cup,

because you do not honor the idea

that brought it into existence,

you do not love the lip that paid it homage.

Look deeper.

 

Words like - Disposable and Trash

give things a non-existence from you.

You believe dead things are alive

and alive things are dead.

You believe you can fill the world

with trash and useful things.

You see difference.

 

Just like when you go to war.

Nothing is useful to you then,

but things made to give death.

Death is useful to you then.

You only love death.

You only love that which can give you death.

Yet death is your chance

to understand the nature of cup,

and drinking, and trash, and life.

 

You look at a corpse and say a tearful prayer,

or leap in joyous victory at a sweet kill.

Yet only love can kill

and it kills you to this insanity forever.

Look deeper.

 

I have seen you throw an unborn child away like this,

thinking it was disposable.

I have seen you kill a father, and a mother

as if they were just fodder for your belief guns.

For your religion, for your country.

For your convenience.

For your fear of unsanitary products.

As if they were a polystyrene cup.

Just a nuisance. Just trash.

Sweet victory!

 

I have seen you hang on a diner counter

nursing an empty polystyrene cup

until they throw you out in the trash.

I have seen you trashed by others

who would name you so.

I have seen all of this in you.

Can you see all of this as Love?

 

Love never tires of your craziness.

For you cannot kill the creations it sends you

only your view of Love.

Only your point of view.

Only your trash.

The way you name things.

Look deeper.

 

Love is the form you reject

as a nuisance and disposable.

Love is all that you would throw away

for the sake of consumer convenience.

Love is a cup you would disdain to drink from.

Love sees no distinction between

cup, child, or trash. Only you do

and you kill them with a name.

 

Love is your child to all things.

Yet you trash it indiscriminately.

Love does not discriminate as you do.

It is a child holding a polystyrene cup

in some disposable place

as the bombs fall

as you trash it.

And your cupped hands

cling to your own child

as you pray for God to trash

all things you do not honor.

Sweet victory!

Look deeper.

 

love

 

eric

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Hello, Eric. I am a new member here who used to read your poetry on the NDE

list.

Wow, what a powerful poem this is. For some reason, the following lines made

me cry:

 

"because you do not honor the idea

that brought it into existence,

you do not love the lip that paid it homage."

 

Thank you.

 

Love,

Maggie

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Hello Maggie,

I remember you from nde. Welcome to Harsha's place.

We often dishoner by judgement

the Idea that inspires all of creation into existance.

I hope you will feel at home here.

love

eric

Hello, Eric. I am a new member here who used to read your poetry on the NDE

list.

Wow, what a powerful poem this is. For some reason, the following lines made

me cry:

"because you do not honor the idea

that brought it into existence,

you do not love the lip that paid it homage."

Thank you.

Love,

Maggie

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Thank you, dear Mazie and Eric for your welcome. For some reason my first

two posts to this list took more than 24 hours to show up.

 

Seems a little slow. We'll see what happens with this one...

 

Love,

Maggie

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, chezahmed@a... wrote:

> Hello, Eric. I am a new member here who used to read your poetry

on the NDE

> list.

> Wow, what a powerful poem this is. For some reason, the following

lines made

> me cry:

>

> "because you do not honor the idea

> that brought it into existence,

> you do not love the lip that paid it homage."

>

> Thank you.

>

> Love,

> Maggie

 

Beloved Maggie, SweetHeart of this Heart,

 

It is such the pleasure to find you and John, dear John, have joined

this satsangh of Friends. And yes, isn't Eric just the Darling of a

muse and he simply breaks the bowl and falls into the Sky of Nowhere,

and so beautifully he drops heavenly Bliss-Blossoms in his falling

into the Heart of Love. For he is the Heart of Love and there is

nothing more enchanting then watching the Beautiful Beloved One use

him as He does as his Mystery-Minstrel of Song, Song so Dear and so

Fragrant! Oh, Mags the Magic One in Dear form, so happy to have you

here! Let's fall into Namaste together, and then, oh yes, then...Now.

 

LoveAlways,

 

Mazie

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Hi again Maggie,

Due to some previous people joining here just to advertise or sell something,

new members are moderated at first. Harsha may be a little slow right now

getting around to approving posts, as he is or was away from home.

Don't worry, any friend of Mazie & Eric is sure to be ok. Looks like this post

zipped on thru.

Love,

Gloria

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chezahmed (AT) aol (DOT) com

Tuesday, June 25, 2002 9:29 AM

Re: Re: Trash.

Thank you, dear Mazie and Eric for your welcome. For some reason my

first two posts to this list took more than 24 hours to show up.Seems

a little slow. We'll see what happens with this

one...Love,Maggie/join

All paths go

somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights, perceptions,

and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside back

into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than

the ocean, all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of

Awareness. Awareness does not come and go but is always Present. It

is Home. Home is where the Heart Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the

Finality of Eternal Being. A true devotee relishes in the Truth of

Self-Knowledge, spontaneously arising from within into It Self.

Welcome all to a.Your use of is subject

to the

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