rumisong Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 It seems it seems we either want to talk about some thing-of-life or another, in order to find out- or we want to talk about things to find out we were right this is oh-so-very tricky I beg of you to know which one of these has come to the meeting just knowing which one has come to the meeting is enough compassion will know what to do from there _______________ edited to remove elipsis (thanks dr con) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen M. Callirhoe Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 what a true statement rumi, it made me laugh because it is so true. thanks for the read. vic Quote Larsen M. Callirhoe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_con Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 Well composed. I have, a little problem with the "...", probably because I used to use them frequently, got chided, repeatedly and ended up rethinking their purpose in my own writing- From that perspective, I find them unnecessary... And in your poetry, the statements are concrete, there is no need to invite the reader to contemplate- i.e. Larsen's excellent and dead on response, would he have felt the 'truth' any less if the "..." had been absent? Excellent rumination, well founded- reminds me a bit of this article: Dr. Concrescence ;-) DC Quote thegateless.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyv Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 Oh Rumisong, I'm a believer in compassion. I say I'm sorry when I'm wrong, and sometimes I say I'm sorry even when I'm right ... sorry for incidentally hurting the other person, that is. No one really does that for me when I'm wrong; I guess it's more important to just be right. I know I've probably gone down a different vein with this from your original intent, but it seems to jive. Thanks for this. Tony Quote Here is a link to an index of my works on this site: tonyv's Member Archive topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rumisong Posted May 21, 2009 Author Share Posted May 21, 2009 thanks all- dr con- I didnt even see the elipsis! Im so used to using them as my sentence writing style- and this started out in sentence form, so when I split it up for here, to see if would make it in line form, I forgot to remove the ellipsis entirely! thank you yes, Tony, compassion is something I look at a great deal... for me, its a word I use to describe "that which is not ego" - in the zen sense of ego- meaning, that which is not "me"... zen might say, when you remove the "me", what remains is truth- and this is compassionate by its nature... I talk a lot about "the meeting" too... thanks again all for your comments Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyv Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 rumisong wrote: I talk a lot about "the meeting" too... Yes, Rumisong, and I remember some discussion about that in several other topics. I wish you would elaborate a bit more about the concept ... I'm still somewhat puzzled by it. I'm probably just thick. Tony Quote Here is a link to an index of my works on this site: tonyv's Member Archive topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rumisong Posted May 21, 2009 Author Share Posted May 21, 2009 tonyv wrote: I wish you would elaborate a bit more about the concept ... I'm still somewhat puzzled by it. ah! now I have a challenge to dig in and see if there is a poem there about "the meeting" - thank you for your request! lets hope it comes out poem for me- if not I will look (inwardly) for some fresh prose about it none the less... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aleksandra Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 Lovely and interesting poem, and perfect title Rumisong. And yes the compassion is very a state of mind, which should take a place all around but not to over act with it :). Tony it's interesting what kind of thought you have ab the rightness. Saying sorry when you are right is good only for one reason, only to stop some problem but never to fix it with that. But yes for the sake of peace it's nice to say sorry. Rumi, thanks for sharing this poem. Aleksandra Quote The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth - Jean Cocteau History of Macedonia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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