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Noble Truths, Redux

Posted: March 27th, 2005, 4:53 pm
by e_dog
If life is suffering,
then love is torture.

The cause of each is the spirit.

The spirit can be extinguished
like a torch flame
under a waterfall.

The path to the falls
is that of questioning
the matter of things.

The path is comprised
of eight stones:
fear of living,
joy of trying,
taste of body,
pain of leaving,
fear of dying,
joy of giving,
taste of failing,
pain of ending.

After the breath escapes,
there is the vacuum.

Posted: March 28th, 2005, 12:33 pm
by stilltrucking
When I first started posting to litchicks :wink:
estrogen rules
I had never heard of Rilke. Just a vacuous name in my fevered brain.


oh brother that was excellent
Whereever he went a poet had been there before him.

:D

Posted: March 28th, 2007, 11:34 pm
by joel
staying power. maybe the cycles of the year or where the stars fall or some kind of universality, but so relevant....

Posted: March 31st, 2007, 8:02 pm
by Totenkopf
Suffering is life, and the desire of attachment the suffering of all cause. So said the Moo duh.

Posted: April 1st, 2007, 7:21 am
by Dave The Dov
Allen Ginsberg wrote a song about it.
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