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Katrine
Norway
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 Posted - Aug 06 2006 : 06:28:56 AM
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Hi all 
After 4 weeks in the mountains I'm back to enjoy this forum.
I wrote this up there....and thought I would share it with you:
LOVING
If I ask:
"How can I love?"
Then,
there cannot be
an answer
I, who ask,
can never love
The clever
can never know
But I
can be quiet
Outwardly quiet
Inwardly quiet
Here,
in this empty space
In this silence......I am......
Living
now
All answers
are forever
redundant
Being, I love
Loving, I am
Katrine 2006
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Sparkle
Ireland
1457 Posts |
Posted - Aug 06 2006 : 5:30:56 PM
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Welcome back Katrine
very impressed, but also a bit sad that I'm not in that space
Louis |
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Katrine
Norway
1813 Posts |
Posted - Aug 07 2006 : 05:25:57 AM
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Hello Louis
See - that's the thing. We keep forgetting. I forget too. In the forgetting (which always coincides with non-silence inside) I identify with my personality. And that person wants - as you put it -"to be in that space". That person thinks that is the ultimate.
i am only a container. How can a glass ever hope to be inside its own space? I am space. I am that. And as long as I "want to be in space" more than I want to simply be.....then i will keep separating myself from space. I will keep identifying with the glass then. The boarders.....the limits.
Another thing:
When I think of myself as a a personality (or a glass, if you like) - the truth of me is that I am empty. There is nothing inside of me. Most of my spiritual process has been about accepting this fact. I am empty. I am nothing. It is a painful and arduous realization; because it is preceeded by years of trying to fill this emptiness in different ways. I still do it. But less and less. I understand more of how my mind tricks me. The emptiness only feels lacking (painful) if I identify with the walls of the glass. Otherwise the emptiness is simply space. The same space that is outside the glass. No difference at all.
I remember when I write the poetry........because in inspiration i shut up. Afterwards I forget.
I remember several times a day - but I forget more often than not. But less often than before.
So.....
Simply be quiet.
Listen to your mind saying "I want to be in that space". That very sentence is in itself a clutter; a filler. (Don't change it - simply watch it)
The sadness, however, has shown me a lot. If I can manage to not comment on it, but simply be with it....then it slowly changes and reveals spaciousness. All emotions can be simply watched this way. When they die down - and if i shut up also - then spaciousness is there.
When I am not silent, I too want to be in space. No difference at all between you and me. When I am not silent it does me no good at all to remember that "I wrote that poetry". That is just a sentence; it is a filler. So.....none of the poetry is "mine". If I can't let go of it the very instant it is written - then there is no room for more. I have then filled space with myself. This brings sadness. (My heart knows....) If I can turn inwards and stay with the truth of that sadness, then I am emptied of it....and.....the silence reveals itself again.
It is always here.
...hm....
Anyway, Louis - I love talking to you. |
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Katrine
Norway
1813 Posts |
Posted - Aug 07 2006 : 06:45:13 AM
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So in this way.....
the glass already is in space. Or rather - it is of space. It just has to quit limiting the space to be "of itself" ("my own - my precious  ") - to see it.
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Anthem
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Posted - Aug 07 2006 : 11:21:45 AM
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quote:
very impressed, but also a bit sad that I'm not in that space
Louis
Hi Louis!
Good news, you are in "that space", you just think you are not. In fact, we all take turns spending a great deal of our lives thinking we are not a bunch of things. I.E. Not smart, not aware, not getting it now, etc. We spend all our time thinking about how we are not that we don't pause for long enough to see that we already are.
If you could drop the thought that you are not in that space for a long enough and a sustained enough period of time and be there in stillness and silence you will know it for yourself.
A
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Sparkle
Ireland
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Posted - Aug 07 2006 : 6:01:25 PM
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Thanks Katrine
I love it when you talk like that, he he.
Thanks Anthem, getting in touch again.
Thank you both for giving me a bridge to thread on
Louis
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