Prisioneira de Mim

Domingo, Maio 23, 2004

CONFLITO DE GERAÇÕES

Falando sobre conflitos de gerações, o médico inglês Ronaldo Gibson
começou uma conferência com quatro frases:
1) "Nossa junventude adora o luxo, é mal educada, caçoa da autoridade e não tem o menor
respeito pelos mais velhos. Nossos filhos hoje são verdadeiros tiranos. Eles não se levantam
quando uma pessoa idosa entra, respondem a seus pais e são simplesmente maus."

2) "Não tenho mais nenhuma esperança no futuro do nosso país se a
juventude de hoje tomar o poder amanhã, porque essa juventude é
insuportável, desenfreada, simplesmente horrível."

3) "Nosso mundo atingiu seu ponto crítico. Os filhos não ouvem mais
seus pais. O fim do mundo não pode estar muito longe."

4) "Essa juventude está estragada até o fundo do coração. Os jovens são malfeitores
e preguiçosos. Eles jamais serão como a juventude de antigamente.
A juventude de hoje não será capaz de manter a nossa cultura."

Após ter lido as quatro citações, ficou muito satisfeito com a
aprovação que os ouvintes davam às frases.

Então, revelou a origem delas:
- a primeira é de Sócrates (470 a 399 anos antes de Cristo)
- a segunda é de Hesíodo ( 720 anos a.C.)
- a terceira é de um sacerdote do ano 2000 anos a.C.
- e a quarta estava escrita em um vaso de argila descoberto nas
ruínas da Babilônia e tem mais de 4000 anos de existência.
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Aí, jovem, cuidado! Verifique se estás em alta velocidade.... rsrsrsrsrrs....
dá uma olhadinha nesta foto:

VALL RIO 11:55 PM

Terça-feira, Maio 11, 2004

KABIR

"Aquello que tú ves no existe"

¿A qué playa te encaminarías, corazón mío?
Nadie te precede; no hay camino.
...
No hay agua, ni barca, ni barquero.
No hay ni siquiera una cuerda para remolcar la barca,
ni barquero para jalarla.
...
Sé fuerte y entra en tu propio cuerpo,
pues ahí es firme tu asidero.


Poemas de Kabir ( www.boloji.com/kabir )
Mystic Songs - 14

Oh Deer Graze With Knowledge and Discrimination ||

Graze in the First Forest, Graze in the Second Forest
But Don't Tread into the Third Forest ||

The Third Forest has Five Hunters
Don't Let them See You ||

Five Deer and Twenty Five Female Deer
None Among them is Sensible and Shrewd ||

Killing You They Will Sell Your Flesh
Your Skin will be Used as a Covering ||

Says Kabir Listen Oh Practicing Aspirant
Offer your Mind at the Feet of the Guru ||

Explanation
Traditionally, in Indian spiritual terminology, the Deer symbolizes the senses. However, the more latent meaning of a Deer is our pleasure-seeking desire. Fundamentally, each one of us is looking for pleasure and that search is what is alluded to, in this song, as the grazing of the deer.

The "third" forest is the physical reality guided by our senses. The "second" forest is the mental world that is guided by our mind/intellect - included in this are the visions and sounds heard by sages in meditation. Perhaps, Kabir does not see the internal visual and sound experiences much different from a mental state where thoughts are the driving force. The "first" forest is the true spiritual realm where oneness with the ultimate is complete. So he says its okay to graze in the first forest of oneness and the second forest of meditation/practice but not in the third forest of physical and sensual pleasures.

Why? He explains that in the third forest the pleasure-seeking tendency is at the mercy of the five sensual stimuli (sight, sound, smell, taste and touch) that are the hunters. He warns that one should stay out of their line of attack/vision.

The deer identifies so completely with the five senses that it takes on the form of five deer seeking the pleasures offered in the third forest. Each of these five senses of perception combined with the five motor organs of action (mouth, hand, feet, excretory and reproductive) makes a combination of twenty five different ways (five multiplied with five) in which the physical world is experienced. While, none of these experiences are permanent, all twenty-five pleasure-seeking ways of the physical world continue relentlessly. Kabir says that none of these pleasure-seeking methods are shrewd enough to see this obvious truth.

Eventually this pleasure search at the physical level ends unsuccessfully with the five sensory hunters "killing" the spirit of the search. Each of these modes become non-living/dead reality that serve as mere external display for feeding, beautifying and adorning the physical world.

So what is the way out of this bleak and hopeless reality? Kabir explains that the root of this transient mode of pleasure seeking is the mind. And therefore instead of controlling the senses, the mind needs to be tamed. But that's a daunting task in itself. Therefore Kabir, in all humility, says that the mind should be offered at the feet of the Guru (within) to show the way, directing it inwards to the true storehouse of pleasure - one that is abundant with everlasting ecstasy.

VALL RIO 11:22 PM