Jim and His Karma
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Posted - May 12 2006 : 12:09:09 PM Show Profile Email Poster Visit Jim and His Karma's Homepage Edit Topic Reply with Quote View user's IP address Get a Link to this Message Delete Topic
Nothing can disrupt one's silence
Nohing can injure one's silence
Nothing can aggrieve one's silence
For the silence is beyond disruption, injury, or aggrieving
All that disrupts
All that injures
All that aggrieves
Plays out on the stage of mind
Nothing can kill one's buzz
Nothing can ground one's kite
Unless buzz and kite
Have been mind drama all along
The sadhana that can be derailed
Is a sham sadhana
Unchallenged mind coopts all
And unchecked ego supplants God
Please, Lord, let ten thousand things
Unceasingly challenge my silence
For that which can be disrupted, injured, and aggrieved
Is that which must be extinguished
The silence flinches not
The silence prefers not
The silence offends not
The silence dims not
Edited by - Jim and His Karma on May 28 2006 11:57:59 AM
Shanti
USA
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Posted - May 12 2006 : 12:27:41 PM Show Profile Email Poster Visit Shanti's Homepage Edit Reply Reply with Quote View user's IP address Get a Link to this Reply Delete Reply
quote:
All that disrupts
All that injures
All that aggrieves
Plays out on the stage of ego
Beautiful.. Exactly what I was telling Meg this morning .
Did not know you were a poet too.. Jim and is Karma are full of surprises lately
Shamyama at work I guess.
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Please, Lord, let ten thousand things
Unceasingly challenge my silence
Ummmm. be careful what you wish for.. with Shamyama... you have no idea what is going to hit you and how hard..
Edited by - Shanti on May 12 2006 12:33:42 PM
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Jim and His Karma
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Posted - May 12 2006 : 12:44:09 PM Show Profile Email Poster Visit Jim and His Karma's Homepage Edit Reply Reply with Quote View user's IP address Get a Link to this Reply Delete Reply
quote:
quote:
Please, Lord, let ten thousand things
Unceasingly challenge my silence
Ummmm. be careful what you wish for.. with Shamyama... you have no idea what is going to hit you and how hard..
Lay it on me. All the way. The ego has infinite strategies for coopting sadhana, so I invite every molecule of the universe to highlite (and even sandblast) all that gunk away for me.
PS-- it's fairly rotten poetry, actually, but the sincerity's there....
Edited by - Jim and His Karma on May 12 2006 12:45:04 PM
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Manipura
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No, Jim - it's beautiful. I've printed a copy.
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Shanti
USA
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Posted - May 12 2006 : 1:19:55 PM Show Profile Email Poster Visit Shanti's Homepage Edit Reply Reply with Quote View user's IP address Get a Link to this Reply Delete Reply
It is really good Jim..
Thanks for sharing.
-Shanti.
Edited by - Shanti on May 12 2006 1:47:36 PM
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Jim and His Karma
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Posted - May 12 2006 : 1:24:47 PM Show Profile Email Poster Visit Jim and His Karma's Homepage Edit Reply Reply with Quote View user's IP address Get a Link to this Reply Delete Reply
If it helps, I'm happy. "Good" or not.....pfft. Your kindness is appreciated, regardless of its channel.
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Katrine
Norway
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I love it Jim!
Thanks for sharing this.
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PS-- it's fairly rotten poetry, actually, but the sincerity's there
If poetry bonds me with silence - then that's always about quality to me.
Yours did.
May all your Nows be Here
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alan
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Yes, it's a good poem Jim. If you want to read a bad poem check out that hash job I did on that pop song
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Jim and His Karma
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Twelve years later, I'd change this:
For that which can be disrupted, injured, and aggrieved
Is that which must be extinguished
to.....
For that which can be disrupted, injured, and aggrieved
Is not who I truly am.
(No need to extinguish anything!)
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BlueRaincoat
United Kingdom
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Hello Jim
I looked for a thumbs up emoticon, then I remembered you don't like emoticons anyway.
I like your poem and the change you've just made. A lot has happened in 12 years.
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Blanche
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quote:
Originally posted by Jim and His Karma
Twelve years later, I'd change this:
For that which can be disrupted, injured, and aggrieved
Is that which must be extinguished
to.....
For that which can be disrupted, injured, and aggrieved
Is not who I truly am.
(No need to extinguish anything!)
Amen
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kumar ul islam
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what use is a well when all the land around is in flood
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Jim and His Karma
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Even better:
For that which can be disrupted, injured, and aggrieved
Is that which must be seen as false.
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Blanche
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It is false for the one who truly sees,
and it is not false for the one who feels disrupted, injured, and aggrieved.
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Jim and His Karma
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That's pretty much 180 degrees from the point I'm making with this poem. Which is fine; different strokes, etc!
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kumar ul islam
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the ones who truly see,light a flame for others to see the way .
