Open-Secrets

Month: November 2011

  • What Gets Fed

    Words can Kill

    Open SecretsThe world comes knocking

    at the wise man’s door

    like all good guests

    laying problems at his feet

    quietly, he feeds them

    as gluttonous appetites

    ravage the evening’s meal

    bloated with assumptions

    they raucously depart

    hidden in the corner

    a hungry servant

    died on table scraps

     

    Principles Worth Defending

    What is this space we say we need

    and to our neighbors refuse to cede

    Our bodies willingly we’ll bleed

    if our words they fail to heed

     

    Seeking love with heart sincere

    a bloodied child sheds a tear

    Our cause is just, the course won’t veer

    such hypocrites, we have no peer

     

    From global wars to marriage spats

    righteousness wears white hats

    And just like hissing alley cats

    soon throws itself upon the rats

     

    They say we live an age of reason

    apparently there has been treason

    But let us wait another season

    before removing ego’s lesion

     

    Religious leaders take such pride

    in claiming God is on their side

    As human passions they seek to hide

    in fear the flock finds they lied

     

    If all is fair in love and war

    then our poor world will heal no sore

    And children raised on local lore

    will also rot at the core

     

     

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  • Imprisoned by Concepts

    Ideas, Concepts, Positions – The Prison of the Mind

    mental prison

    What I am leading you to is the following: awareness of reality around you. Awareness means to watch, to observe what is going on within you and around you. “Going on” is pretty accurate: trees, grass, flowers, animals, rock, all of reality is moving. One observes it, one watches it. How essential it is for the human being not just to observe himself or herself, but to watch all of reality. Are you imprisoned by your concepts? Do you want to break out of your prison? Then look; observe; spend hours observing. Watching what? Anything. The faces of people, the shapes of trees, a bird in flight, a pile of stones, watch the grass grow. Get in touch with things, look at them. Hopefully you will then break out of these rigid patterns we have all developed, out of what our thoughts and our words have imposed on us. Hopefully we will see. What will we see? This thing that we choose to call reality, whatever is beyond words and concepts. This is a spiritual exercise — connected with spirituality — breaking out of your cage, out of the imprisonment of the concepts and words. – Anthony De Mello

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