Guest guest Posted June 26, 1999 Report Share Posted June 26, 1999 Unknown ------- Ah, Glorious Unknown; How beautiful thou art! Like a fresh bubbling mountain spring Thou art clean and pure, free. That which is known is hell, The same, again and again. Men hide within thee for reasons of security. A secure prison, a known demon. Living in fear, always in fear. The known abode of fear. But Unknown, thou art ever fresh. Oh Grace, let me walk the untrodden forest path; Let me bathe in the mountain spring of timelessness; Let me hear music that is forever new, Always a surprise, free and fresh like the sky. The unknown is like a bright day of possibility; Always the potential, freedom unlimited. Let my journey take me away from samsara; Ever changing, yet ever the same; A mandala that grinds and grinds; Ugly in its familiarity. Hellish in its predictability. Demonic in its illusions. Let me be like the hawk in flight; Forever free, going who knows where, by a way who knows what. Let me be like the fire-god Agni, Forever destroying the past and present, Making way for the future. Oh Shiva! Destroy this prison cell of familarity, Sweep me away to freedom, forever freshness, Never looking back, nor looking forward, Eyes set only on the moment, where all time is minted. Shiva! Destroy this prison-hell of familiar impermanence, Bring the glorious Unknown into view; I shall take refuge in Thee, Knowing nothing. .... Tim Gerchmez ----- Visit The Core of the WWW at: http://www.eskimo.com/~fewtch/ND/index.html Music, Poetry, Writings on Nondual Spiritual Topics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 27, 1999 Report Share Posted June 27, 1999 this reflects a common misunderstanding in vedanta, based on the idea that the world is purely an illusion, and itself must be transcended. let's be aware, this is classic dvaitam! the world is not the enemy, our wrong view of it is. let the hellishness be our mistaken *perception* of this world of change as per *a thing in itself, apart* from its source in brahman. so that, if we can change our false *view*, the world will be seen not-different from its causal substratum. advaitam resolves it thus... namaste Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 27, 1999 Report Share Posted June 27, 1999 Intellectually analyzing a poem? Shame on you ;-)... if I hadn't done it myself on occasion with the work of others, I might even have said something mean and nasty <grin>. With Love, Tim (who writes poems that "are what they are, no more or less") At 11:55 AM 6/27/99 -0400, you wrote: >"f. maiello" <egodust > >this reflects a common misunderstanding >in vedanta, based on the idea that the >world is purely an illusion, and itself >must be transcended. > >let's be aware, this is classic dvaitam! >the world is not the enemy, our wrong >view of it is. ----- Visit The Core of the WWW at: http://www.eskimo.com/~fewtch/ND/index.html Music, Poetry, Writings on Nondual Spiritual Topics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 27, 1999 Report Share Posted June 27, 1999 OK, here is a poem that is "classic Advaita." " ." Cheers, :-) Tim At 11:55 AM 6/27/99 -0400, you wrote: >"f. maiello" <egodust > >this reflects a common misunderstanding >in vedanta, based on the idea that the >world is purely an illusion, and itself >must be transcended. > >let's be aware, this is classic dvaitam! >the world is not the enemy, our wrong >view of it is. ----- Visit The Core of the WWW at: http://www.eskimo.com/~fewtch/ND/index.html Music, Poetry, Writings on Nondual Spiritual Topics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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