Jiddu Krishnamurti (May 12, 1895 – February 17, 1986) was a renowned writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual subjects. His subject matter included: psychological revolution, the nature of the mind, meditation, human relationships, and bringing about positive change in society. He constantly stressed the need for a revolution in the psyche of every human being and emphasized that such revolution cannot be brought about by any external entity, be it religious, political, or social.
Blood Trail
I tried to help you
on the long shadowy trail
where all the blood spilled
and covered the tracks
we tried to follow as if
God walked here, was first
to leave small footprints
before that army followed,
scuffed away all sign.
January 15, 2010 2:12 AM
He constantly stressed the need for a revolution in the psyche of every human being and emphasized that such revolution cannot be brought about by any external entity, be it religious, political, or social.
ReplyDeleteyes, jesusgod, yes, please! we are wrong. we are so wrong in our fundamentals. i was just writing this to my love. (does it seem wrong that i am in love again so quickly? i can not help it. this is who i am.) and at our core, i think, is fear, and our fear polutes everything. if we could exorcise our fear from our core, fear of being insignifcant, fear of dying, fear of being wrong, for we are insignificant, dying and so often wrong, then we might have a fighting chance of creating a structure that allows us to live in a richer awareness, in beauty, perhaps even in peace. holy shit, imagine!
in your poem, too, i see us there, society as the shadowy army, so engulfed with fear, puffing its chest, pretending to be something it is not.
and only i can change i. and only you can change you. and so i can not even say i wait on the world. i can only say, only i can change i, only you can...
xo
erin
That reads like truth. I enjoyed it very much.
ReplyDeleteI would very much like, Erin, to offer you for your consideration that the core of things is not always in the emotional realm for us. Some of us are somatic, most emotional, some are spirit driven. This has to be so or else the breadth of variation is too broad in us, the genius too deep, and the creativity too diverse.
ReplyDeleteI thought I too was primarily fear driven until I matured enough to settle a bit, find a little peace. Then I discovered that for me fear is second, not first.
Bewilderment is first. I am the bewildered one. I don't insist this is true of anyone else but I know it is my truth. For me fear is derivative and one strand of it is connected to me realizing that "you" - whoever that is - are not bewildered like me, even if your should be. I am singled out in this way because "you" are actually many and I only find a partial partner sometimes.
I am happy that you have your love. I say so most days, that you are a special light in my world. I am ever grateful that you are stirred by my expression.
I find it remarkable, Mama Zen, that you should use "enjoyed" as the word for what you do with truth. I have such a mixed experience concerning truth in the world. I do greatly value that I can sometimes hold my eyes open without flinching. This is what a biker friend says about things -
ReplyDeleteHe says, "It's a great life if you don't flinch." That's about right. That's right up there with another friend who said, "We either all go to heaven or we don't."