September 2004

Wednesday September 29, 2004 10:38

IX

When I lingered among my hoarded
treasure I felt like a worm that feeds
in the dark upon the fruit where it
was born.
I leave this prison of decay.
I care not to haunt the mouldy still-
ness, for I go in search of everlasting
youth; I throw away all that is not
one with my life nor as light as my
laughter.
I run through time and, O my
heart, in your chariot dances the poet
who sings while he wanders.

Rabindranath Tagore's "Fruit Gathering";

Saturday September 25, 2004 18:56

27,212 Service-Trees

We cannot save ourselves.
A higher force
Has come to our rescue

Sri Chinmoy

Wednesday September 22, 2004 11:18

Today is the equinox, in the UK, when day and night are of equal length marking the official end of summer and the commencement of Autumn. The withdrawal of the life-force of the land has a correspondence with this beautiful poem written by Rumi.

Our death is our wedding with eternity.
What is the secret? "God is One."
The sunlight splits when entering the windows of the house.
This multiplicity exists in the cluster of grapes;
It is not in the juice made from the grapes.
For he who is living in the Light of God,
The death of the carnal soul is a blessing.
Regarding him, say neither bad nor good,
For he is gone beyond the good and the bad.
Fix your eyes on God and do not talk about what is invisible,
So that he may place another look in your eyes.
It is in the vision of the physical eyes
That no invisible or secret thing exists.
But when the eye is turned toward the Light of God
What thing could remain hidden under such a Light?
Although all lights emanate from the Divine Light
Don't call all these lights "the Light of God";
It is the eternal light which is the Light of God,
The ephemeral light is an attribute of the body and the flesh.
...Oh God who gives the grace of vision!
The bird of vision is flying towards You with the wings of desire.

Rumi

http://www.khamush.com/poems.html#9

Tuesday September 21, 2004 12:37

If I try to say anything about this,
consider that it is everything
speaking simultaneously to
everything.
Just so, how can anything
be said, except
in the saying of it
something new
emerges.

The earth speaks in
new grass, snow,
chrysanthemums.

The mountain speaks in
boulders, trees,
waterfalls.

The sky speaks in
sun, moon,
cloud.

Han Shan
hears,
weeps,
laughs.

Ah, what secrets within
your own bright
true mind!

The 300 Missing Poems of Han Shan
By Mazie and RobertO'Hearn
http://www.egreenway.com/HanShan/o41t25.htm

Saturday September 11, 2004 19:32

From the I Ching

64   Before Completion

• The Judgment
• The Image
  This hexagram indicates a time when the transition from disorder to order is not yet completed. The change is indeed prepared for, since all the lines in the upper trigram are in relation to those in the lower. However, they are not yet in their places. While the preceding hexagram offers an analogy to autumn, which forms the transition from summer to winter, this hexagram presents a parallel to spring, which leads out of winter's stagnation into the fruitful time of summer. With this hopeful outlook the I Ching comes to its close.
  The Judgment

  Before Completion. Success.
  But if the little fox, after nearly completing the crossing,
  Gets his tail in the water,
  There is nothing that would further.

  The conditions are difficult. The task is great and full of responsibility. It is nothing less than that of leading the world out of confusion back to order. But it is a task that promises success, because there is a goal that can unite the forces now tending in different directions. At first, however, one must move warily, like an old fox walking over ice. The caution of a fox walking over ice is proverbial in China. His ears are constantly alert to the cracking of the ice, as he carefully and circumspectly searches out the safest spots. A young fox who as yet has not acquired this caution goes ahead boldly, and it may happen that he falls in and gets his tail wet when he is almost across the water. Then of course his effort has been all in vain. Accordingly, in times "before completion," deliberation and caution are the prerequisites of success.
  The Image
  Fire
  Water

  Fire over water:
  The image of the condition before transition.
  Thus the superior man is careful
  In the differentiation of things,
  So that each finds its place.

  When fire, which by nature flames upward, is above, and water, which flows downward, is below, their effects take opposite directions and remain unrelated. If we wish to achieve an effect, we must first investigate the nature of the forces in question and ascertain their proper place. If we can bring these forces to bear in the right place, they will have the desired effect and completion will be achieved. But in order to handle external forces properly, we must above all arrive at the correct standpoint ourselves, for only from this vantage can we work correctly.

• Found at: I Ching

  Thursday September 9, 2004 17:00

  ...In the conscient the ego becomes the superficial point at which the unity can begin to emerge; but it applies its perception of unity to the form and surface action and, failing to take account of all that operates behind, fails also to realise that it is not only one in itself but one with others.

  From: Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine p.47

   

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  Wednesday September 1, 2004 5:59 AM

  23,245
  
  The fragrance of Heaven
  Dwells all the time
  In the aspiration-heart

  From 77,000 Service-Trees
  Sri Chinmoy

   

  I am the Wind

  I AM the wind that wavers,
  You are the certain land;
  I am the shadow that passes
  Over the sand.

  I am the leaf that quivers,
  You, the unshaken tree;
  You are the stars that are steadfast,
  I am the sea.

  You are the light eternal--
  Like a torch I shall die.
  You are the surge of deep music,
  I but a cry!

  Zoë Akins

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