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THE BRIDGE OF COMPASSION Compassion becomes a bridge to the world outside. Trust and compassion for oneself bring inspiration to dance with life, to communicate with the energies of the world. Lacking this kind of inspiration and openness, the spiritual path becomes the samsaric path of desire. One remains trapped in the desire to improve [...] HEY ALLEN GINSBERG WHERE HAVE YOU GONE AND WHAT WOULD YOU THINK OF MY DRUGS? A mouse went to see his mother. When his car broke down he bought a bike. When the bike wore out he bought skates. When the skates wore down he ran. He ran until his sneakers wore through. Then he [...] There is a theory in cognitive therapy that people repeat the same patterns because our minds become used to traveling particular neural paths; and thus seek those paths. It’s sort of the mental equivalent of commuting … where you always take the same route to work, even though you know that sometimes traffic is really [...] Leaving It to You Self evident, truth mistakes no thing. But my heart’s a long way from there and nothing’s very clear. Yellow gold is almost burned up by my desire. White hair grows by the fire. Bitter indecision: choose This, or maybe That. Even the spirit speaks in riddles and makes it hard to [...] My Downfall My downfall: those pink articulate lips Divinely flavoured portals to a mouth Where soul dissolves … eyes darting Beneath black brows, snares for the heart, And the milk-white breasts, well shaped, The twin rosebuds, fair beyond other flowers. To itemize thus — is this to cast dogs a bone? The poet’s pen — [...] THE BED The pulsing stops where time has been, The garden is snow-bound, The branches weighed dow and the paths filled in, Drifts quilt the ground. We lie soft-caught, still now it’s done, Loose-twined across the bed Like wrestling statues; but it still goes on Inside my head. — Thom Gunn (1929 – 2004), British [...] |
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