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Temple, very nicely done...
posted by
teddypoet_TheGoodByeFade
on January 26, 2007 at 2:50 PM
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Hello Temple, I am back...
Me, a tricky one? No LOL. A pricky one maybe! Jokes aside, I could instinctively relate your poem to a deep personal pain of yours. Otherwise there was no way for an in-depth analysis from you that I was interested in knowing. Some kind of trauma or something you suffered. That’s what it meant to me. As you say, “true love means you love someone enough to let them go”, yes, it is a Buddha Truth. I am immensely fascinated with Buddha’s conception of ‘The Ultimate’, as Shoonya, or nothingness. That’s what it means to let them free in Love. This concept Shoonya, is a negative description of the All, that we call ‘Absolute’. The positive sense in the word Absolute still gives you ideas of a boundary, but ‘no-thingness’ is vast, unimaginable, boundariless.
The ‘slight flight away’ that I was talking about was intentional and in the following context: Buddha has talked about two nirvanas. One, he calls Nirvana with a substratum, and the other, without. Manifestation of the world is gone but the unmanifested seed remains. For example, you cut a tree, it is no longer visible, but the roots remain. From it will sprout again the whole tree. Your pain, likewise, has not of as yet gone from the roots - memory, that is. You struck me as very intelligent, and sensitive and that is why, excuse me for being a little thorny, I wanted to talk to you. Thank you so very much.
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on December 16, 2006 at 10:59 PM
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posted by
Chilitree
on December 16, 2006 at 9:39 PM
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bel
Thanks for reading.
posted by
Temple
on December 16, 2006 at 9:34 PM
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Holy Grail
Probably a little too often, I'm sure... but c'est la vie. I know you relate.
posted by
Temple
on December 16, 2006 at 9:33 PM
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afzal50
Thank you very much. :) And thanks for reading and saying so.
posted by
Temple
on December 16, 2006 at 9:30 PM
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Whoever it is...I'm sure you do...often.
posted by
Holy_Grail
on December 16, 2006 at 9:59 AM
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posted by
bel_1965
on December 16, 2006 at 6:05 AM
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Excellent poem.
posted by
afzal50
on December 16, 2006 at 5:25 AM
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Bhaskar, you're a tricky one, aren't you?
Now I have to answer my own question! You been talking to my shrink lately? lol... It doesn't go against Buddhism at all, at least not how I know it and have studied it and apply it to my life. I'm not one for organized religion, and anyone who reads about Siddhartha -- who became known as "Buddha," but Buddha just means teacher -- knows that his journey was about telling people to find their own way and not take anyone else's word for anything regarding faith or spirituality, including his. My belief is that he wouldn't even like being held up as an icon. I study Tibetan Buddhism and Western Buddhism because the Dalai Lama is a great inspiration to me, and because Tibetan has concepts that fit what my heart says. I live this way as a discipline, a lifestyle, a philosophy, but not a religion. So, as far as the poem goes, I never really give away the true meanings of them because I like people to interpret what it means to
them not to me... but I will say, that this poem relates to something very painful that brought me a great opportunity (pain brings opportunity for growth) to learn the true meaning and value of love, and to help someone else find a path of light that they needed. True love means you love someone enough to let them go, if need be. Love is always about the other person, not ourselved, that is true Buddhism. But, our bodies and souls remember... sometimes. You see?
posted by
Temple
on December 16, 2006 at 5:14 AM
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Temple
Even I am not sure. Just crossed my mind. I dunno how?
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on December 16, 2006 at 4:57 AM
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Bhaskar.ing
Hmm, I'm not sure how, but there are many types of Buddhism and ways to apply it to your life, your faith, your philosophy. So, I'm not sure what you mean, but thank you for reading and I'm glad that you liked it.
posted by
Temple
on December 16, 2006 at 4:53 AM
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Temple
Beautifully expressed, though a
slight flight away from Buddism to me, I guess.
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on December 16, 2006 at 4:33 AM
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