Guest guest Posted March 25, 2003 Report Posted March 25, 2003 This is beautiful. May I share this with my Sophia discussion list, giving you full credit of course? Did you write it? Who wrote it? To whom would I give credit? Let me know if I can share it ... Peace, Love and Poetic License, Cathie In a message dated 3/24/03 10:49:08 PM Mountain Standard Time, sandeepc writes: > Khana-badosh > > A beautiful Sufi word meaning one who carries his house on his shoulders. > One who doesn't get rooted, his feet does not get planted. > > Is this word hinting at only physical movement, a nomadic life? > No. > It is about identification. > It is about getting defined. > > The hippie cult of 60's was that, a nomadic tribe. > Innocent, where possibility existed for them to go beyond and yet > "attainment" was rare if at all. > > Why? > > Because in the rejection of "society" was the identification. > > In the rebellion was the identification. > When you accept something, you are identified with it. > When you oppose that something, you are as much identified. > > Secondly the rebellion was time bound. > When the money ran out, the drugs ran out, the travel ran out. > When the beauty of the youth ran out , the boyfriend/girlfriend left, the > group disappeared. > And slowly the return back to that very same society, i.e. those who > physically survived. > Notice, have you ever seen a 40 year old hippie, the real one not the > pseudo one who pretend to be one:) > > No Khana-badosh is being an internal nomad, an extension of the same > principle of Neti, Neti (Not this, Not this) where it is recognized that > all experiences, no matter how profound, ........are mere milestones to be > passed. > > > I woke up in the night > It seemed I suddenly heard the whisperings of the deep stillness > coming from behind the curtains of darkness- > as a soft, mysteriously melodious, ultimate song. > > And that song said to me: > Invincible One! Oh haven't you woken up yet? > > And this light from an unbounded source, floods. > > Oh, unfortunate one. > how many times has your cup been filled > and, unnoticed, been tipped over and emptied. > > This secrecy of the perpetual silence > It is useless knowing this secret, > > I lost my peace, in my madness for you, > I have become a flame filled with joy, in my pain for you. > > At the hands of time I have become so bent > I who was once an arrow, am now the bow > > No companion, no guide for this journey. > What path is this I have set out on? > > Where to reach, is to disappear. Quote
Guest guest Posted March 25, 2003 Report Posted March 25, 2003 In a message dated 3/25/03 9:12:24 AM Mountain Standard Time, sandeepc writes: > By all means share. > > And remember there is writing but no authors to be credited thereof. thanks ! :-) peace, cathie Quote
Guest guest Posted March 25, 2003 Report Posted March 25, 2003 - <TheaPoetika <sandeepc; <> Tuesday, March 25, 2003 08:05 PM Request to share Re:Khana-badosh > This is beautiful. > May I share this with my Sophia discussion list, giving you full credit of > course? Did you write it? Who wrote it? To whom would I give credit? > Let me know if I can share it ... > > Peace, Love and Poetic License, > Cathie By all means share. And remember there is writing but no authors to be credited thereof. Quote
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