this poem by the sixth is partcularity revelvant to my life. not that i am comparing myself to such greatness but the tension between desire and non attachment is mind blowing sometimes. a friend describe my aversion towards woman as also monk like, a joke but alas partly true.<\/p>\n
that girl who’s stolen my mind –
\nif we could be together forever –
\nlike the joy of finding a jewel
\ndeep in the depths of the sea.<\/p>\n
white teeth smiling.
\nbrightness of skin.
\non my seat in the high lama’s row
\nat the quick edge of my glance
\ni caught her looking at me.<\/p>\n
doing what my lover wishes
\ni lose my chance for dharma.
\nbut wondering in lonely mountain retreats
\nopposes my lover’s wishes.<\/p>\n
by drawing diagrams on the ground
\nthe stars of space can be measured.
\nthrough familiar with the soft flesh
\nof my lover’s body
\ni cannot measure her depths.<\/p>\n
when i held the jewel in my hand
\ni didn’t know its worth.
\nwhen i lost it to another
\nthe wind of loss howled in my chest.<\/p>\n
if young girls never died
\nthere would be no need to brew beer.
\nat such a time
\nthis is a young mant’s surest
\nsource of refuge.<\/p>\n
the arrow of fortune is shot.
\nit strikes the target
\nor buries its tip in the ground.
\nsince i’ve met my new lover
\nmy heart flies after her all on its own.<\/p>\n
meditating, my lama’s face
\ndoes not shine in mind.
\nunbidden, my lover’s face
\nagain and again appears.<\/p>\n
first, best not to see.
\nthen mind won’t be captivated.
\nnext, best not to become intimate.
\nthen mind won’t be trapped.<\/p>\n
-the sixth dalai lama<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
this poem by the sixth is partcularity revelvant to my life. not that i am comparing myself to such greatness but the tension between desire and non attachment is mind blowing sometimes. a friend describe my aversion towards woman as also monk like, a joke but alas partly true. that girl who’s stolen my mind – if we could be together forever – like the joy of finding a jewel deep in the depths of the sea. white teeth smiling. brightness of skin. on my seat in the high lama’s row at the quick edge of my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-spirtuality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb4m0Z-96","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}