Be
Out beyond the ideas of right-doing or wrong-doing there is a field - I'll meet you there.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
2012
Post-industrial civilization (1932-2012).
It was fun (for some) while it lasted. An immense interregnum of anxiety and sorrow will now follow. Let us all seek to comport ourselves with compassion in these dark days.
Sunday, June 05, 2011
Purpose
Doing things for those we love
Driven by memory of those we respect
In the company of those we enjoy
Driven by memory of those we respect
In the company of those we enjoy
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
इश्क-ए-हकीकी
In the beginning, there is chaos
Awareness is a kitten
Playing with strands of thought
Desultorily
First it chases after this one
Then it chases after that one
The yarn gets all tangled
And the kitten gets stuck
And it doesn't care if its stuck
There is no cause to be free
इश्क-ए-मिजाजी is the succulent rat
That reminds the apathetic cat
That there is a point
To its teeth and claws
Then there is the chase, an ardent chase
Sometimes the rat is caught
Other times it escapes
Either way, if the chase is true ,
the kitten is left
In an empty room,
free of yarn
Of what use is the chase
That does not cleanse?
Awareness is a kitten
Playing with strands of thought
Desultorily
First it chases after this one
Then it chases after that one
The yarn gets all tangled
And the kitten gets stuck
And it doesn't care if its stuck
There is no cause to be free
इश्क-ए-मिजाजी is the succulent rat
That reminds the apathetic cat
That there is a point
To its teeth and claws
Then there is the chase, an ardent chase
Sometimes the rat is caught
Other times it escapes
Either way, if the chase is true ,
the kitten is left
In an empty room,
free of yarn
Of what use is the chase
That does not cleanse?
इश्क-ए-मिजाजी: love of some parts of the world
इश्क-ए-हकीकी : love while being in the world
Saturday, March 05, 2011
On the persistence of Being
The reason
this differentiated existence
Endures
and
Recurs
Is that all regret
Is fungible
this differentiated existence
Endures
and
Recurs
Is that all regret
Is fungible
Monday, November 01, 2010
Doing by not doing
Little children come play in this field
Sometimes few, sometimes many
The field always remains
Sometimes few, sometimes many
The field always remains
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Dark night of the spirit
There is dissatisfaction with fullness
From having seen and having been
There is dissatisfaction with emptiness
From not seeing and not being enough
There is no refuge, save the emptiness
There is no escape, even in emptiness
There is no solace, save in the seeing
There is no purpose, only being
From having seen and having been
There is dissatisfaction with emptiness
From not seeing and not being enough
There is no refuge, save the emptiness
There is no escape, even in emptiness
There is no solace, save in the seeing
There is no purpose, only being
Friday, August 06, 2010
Beyond kensho
Having found the onion
We now begin to peel it
Some day, perhaps,
the onion too will go
Or endlessly remain
We now begin to peel it
Some day, perhaps,
the onion too will go
Or endlessly remain
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- Nisheeth
- I is a place-holder to prevent perpetual infinite regress. I is a marker on the road that ends in I not being.