Posted on January 22, 2013, in Poetry, Writing and tagged Complicity, Control, Exploitation, Fear, Genocide, Humanity, Indifference, Injustice, Occupation, Pain, Poverty, Slavery, Social commentary, Sorrow, War. Bookmark the permalink. 8 Comments.
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“You should stop words and letters, and learn to withdraw and reflect on yourself. When you do so, your body and mind will naturally fall away, and your original Buddha nature will appear.” – Dogen.
Now, where can I find . . . ?
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Stacked in the back room
Filed but not forgotten
Admissions of a structure junky
Stringy theories . . .
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Lets band together and free ourselves from the tyranny of our oppressors.
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I’ll try and lend a hand of course, but a lot of my energy is used up trying to get free from my internal ones. Then I might see more clearly how to be of use in the world.
“And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?” (Matthew 7:3)
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You learn a lot about yourself through helping others.
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And vice versa.
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It doesn’t seem that people learn much from the past.
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“Sensible people learn from their mistakes.
The wise learn from the mistakes of others.
The fool learns nothing.”
– from The Book Of Guff
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Even Solomon forgot his lessons resulting to a divided kingdom… Look where history has brought us to date.
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“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.
“But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal
“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
“But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!”
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