This is a running series of short poems I have been writing with the theme of sound. I figured I'd put them all in one thread. So here goes....
I dop ost off and on, but I write only sometimes, when the spirit moves me.
Also, even in the native cultures, there was a rudimentary instutional structure, though more open. The tribe, the councils of elders, etc. were...
I agree with you (also loved the haikus, thanks). Healthy questioning is very important and an essential check to balance the power of...
Something like that. Your explanation is also very close to the practices of Tantric Buddhism.
Im enjoying this conversation a lot. Post on!
Another good one. The one thing i would change is this line: something lounge music and soft as eyelashes You have the two styles of simile that...
I really enjoyed it. It has that lazy, jaded feel that works really for a poem of this sort. I do agree that few things could be tightened, which...
I also have a problem with people bashing the institutions all the time. Yes, there have been plenty of bad things, but they have also served the...
I came across it at my teacher's place in Woodstock. She did a reading for me out of that book and it was quite amazing. I've looked everywhere...
Start with learning to be nice.
Yes, but all shining with the same light. And that diversity in unity is what makes life beautiful.
All one in the end.
Interesting perspective, Nic. I was thinking in terms of present-day protestants who tend to be extremely dogmatic and closed to new ideas. Can...
I'm not being a dick, I'm telling him to drop the compulsive need to make poetry rhyme and use a freer form to express himself. Rhyme is hard to...
renounce rhyme.
What use is that spirituality if it starts showing itself off as better than religion? Isn't that a case of becoming what you despise? True...
Yes, Catholicism has succeeded in retaining a smidgeon of the mystical and there is room for higher experience within it. Jesus Christ would have...
How is advaita acceptable to protestants? If anything, I find catholics are closer to that understanding.
What you refer to as spirituality is what I call religion. I refuse to validate the narrow and distorted versions of the teachings of great...
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