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Sponsor |  rumisong | Jul 19, 5:26am | "What would your answer be if you put the question to yourself - your direct answer without any equivocation or cunningness? Your answer would be in accordance with your intensity in asking the question and the urgency of it. But you are neither intense nor urgent, and that is because you haven't got energy, energy being passion - and you cannot find any truth without passion - passion with a fury behind it, passion in which there is no hidden want. Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you.
So is fear perhaps the reason why you have not got the energy of that passion to find out for yourself why this quality of love is missing in you, why there is not this flame in your heart? If you have examined your own mind and heart very closely, you will know why you haven't got it. If you are passionate in your discovery to find why you haven't got it, you will know it is there. Through complete negation alone, which is the highest form of passion, that thing which is love, comes into being. Like humility you cannot cultivate love. Humility comes into being when there is a total ending of conceit - then you will never know what it is to be humble. A man who knows what it is to have humility is a vain man. In the same way when you give your mind and your heart, your nerves, your eyes, your whole being to find out the way of life, to see what actually is and go beyond it, and deny completely, totally, the life you live now - in that very denial of the ugly, the brutal, the other comes into being. And you will never know it either. A man who knows that he is silent, who knows that he loves, does not know what love is or what silence is." |
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Sponsor | | anitab | Jul 21, 12:49pm | i've always liked krishnamurti.
about silence... and knowledge...
Three Oddest Words
When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.
When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.
When I pronounce the word Nothing,
I make something no nonbeing can hold.
~Wislawa Szymborska |
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Sponsor | | rumisong | Jul 21, 2:06pm | wow, she is wonderful! - Ive been reading her stuff (in translation of course)
she looks like such a delight too, doesnt she?
so - the one you posted Ani, it reminded me of something that I wrote and I went looking for it - it turns out it wasnt far at all ;) - but it was nearly a year ago to date ...
"its like finding the ring of a bell so beautiful, and then seeing someone go up to the bell and touching it in order to "have" the beauty of the ring ...
ones mind goes and comments "what a fool, didnt he know you cant capture the ring of a bell like that? ... whats more, now he had deadened the bell, and none of us can hear the ring"
little did we know, just as we said that, even though it was only to ourselves, everyone else in the audience was witnessing the very same thing - only it was our hand that was on the bell ..." |
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