Love is the answer.

 

Love is the answer.

The question is unimportant.

 

Jeff Foster.

Deep awareness.

       

When you touch one thing with deep awareness,

you touch everything.

 

Thich Nhat Hanh.

Over a cup of tea.

 

I cannot sit and play and chat with you the way

we used to do,

So, over this cup of tea,

I think of you and maybe you think of me.



Sandstone.

 

"Take me to the other side of this night,

Where I am you,

We are us

The kingdom where pronouns are intertwined,

And the sea sang with the murmur of  light".

 

(Octavio Paz, Sandstone)

 

 



You and I.

 

A moment of happiness

You and I sitting on the verandah,

Apparently two, but one in soul,

You and I,

We feel the flowing water of life here,

You and I, with the garden's beauty,

And the birds singing,

The stars will be watching us,

And we will show them

What it is to be a thin cresent moon,

You and I unselfed,

Will be together

Indifferent to idle speculation,

You and I,

As we laugh together,

You and I

In one form upon this earth,

In another form

In a timeless sweet land.

 

(Rumi's kulilyat-e shams 2114)

 



Gracias a la vida,

 

Gracias a la vida, que me ha dado tanto

Thanks to life, which has given me so much,

Me dio dos luceros, que cuando los abro

It gave me two bright eyes, that when opened,

Perfecto distingo lo negro del blanco

Can perfectly distinguish black from white,

 

Gracias a la vida, que me ha dado tanto

Thanks to life, which has given me so much,

Me ha dado el oido que todo su ancho

It gave me an ear that, in all of its breadth,

Graba noche y dia grillos y canarios

Records, night and day, crickets and canaries,

 

Gracias a la vida, que me ha dado tanto

Thanks to life, which has given me so much,

Me ha dado el sonido y el abecedario

It gave me the sound and the alphabet,

Con el las palabras que pienso y declaro

With them the words that I think and declare,

Madre, amigo, hermano, y luz alumbrando

Mother, friend, brother, and the light,

 

Gracias a la vida, que me ha dado tanto

Thanks to life which has given me so much,

Me ha dado la marcha de mis pies cansados

It gave the ability to walk with my tired feet,

Con ellos anduve ciudades y charcos

With them I traversed cities and puddles,

Valles y desiertos, montanas y llanos

Valley and deserts, mountains and plains,

 

Gracias a la vida, que me ha dado tanto

Thanks to life which has given me so much,

Me dio el corazon, que agita su marco

It gave me a heart, that causes my fame to shudder,

Cuando miro al bueno tan lejos del malo

When I see good so far from bad,

 

Gracias a la vida, que me ha dado tanto

Thanks to life which has given me so much

Me ha dado la risa, me ha dado el ilanto

It gave me laughter and it gave me tears,

Asi yo distingo dicha de quebranto

With them I distinguish happiness and pain

Los dos materiales que forman mi vida

The two materials from which my life is formed.

 

(Violeta Parra 1917-1967)

 



Inner child.

 

"I am a sorrowful child, never grown up,

From the grassy north shore, I followed

a bright white road into

a city full of gears, narrow alleys and wooden shacks,

In a bland shade of smoke,

I kept dreaming of green lands,

I believe in  dreaming,

the sky and sea spray, will cover my sorrow,

cover my undiscoverable grave,

Only untill then I will know,

 wheather the grasses and wild flowers will gather,

with the dim lights,

to kiss over my sorrows."

 

(from; curricullum vitae,

by Gu Cheng, 1956-1993)