Comments on: Red Breeze

By: Ben Le

Ben Le — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:03:00 +0000

*Red is not only the colour of blood.*

You say you have never been to Africa,

But Africa knows you.

You are in her heart

And she, in yours.

As the Light shines

without obstructions,

it nurtures the seeds

of Africa in our hearts.

You will see the sunset,

Bathing the highveldt

The colour of your robes,

As red as blood,

But bolder, giving life,

Not as life seeping away.

He is always present,

In every blade of grass

And stump of every tree

*And* in every gun,

And in every Rand

Over which we fight.

We bathe in His Light,

Whenever we say His name.

So whenever you say His name,

And I say His name,

And my Master says His name,

We are saying it together.

And He is there,

He is here.

By: dharmavidya

dharmavidya — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 19:21:09 +0000

Yes, this is all well and good, and I appreciate your good intention. However, nobody can be fearless. To be fearless is to be God and we are not God and to pretend is no good. If fearlessness is the criterion of being a religious person then, I am afraid, there are none. Were we fearless we would have no need of God or Buddha. Is it not better to be what we are, just as we are, and know that we are loved as we are, than to “compound delusion by following ideals” (Sandokai)? We are “showered with gifts” anyway and who needs power of their own when the Lord hears the call of the meek while the mighty have their reward, such as it is, already.

I have never been abandoned
I have never been alone
For in solicitude She holds me
Though I fear, though I moan
Though I quake in inward terror
Still I know She’ll guide me home.

For She knows me in my darkness
In the core of what I be
And she holds me in my weakness
In my blindness let’s me see
That it’s mainly through my darkness
That She finds her way to me.

So Mother will You hold me
When I call into the night
Yes, I know, I know You’ll hold me
When I need to be held tight
For Your breath comes as a sweet free gift
And never as a right.

By: dwaraka

dwaraka — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:43:47 +0000

Whatever we do, we should remember one thing:
out of fear we are not going to grow; we will only shrink and die.
Fear is in the service of death.
Mahavira is right. He makes fearlessness the fundamental of a religious person,
and I can understand what he means by fearlessness – that means dropping all armor.
A fearless person has everything that life wants to give to him/her as a gift.
Now there is no barrier: we will be showered with gifts, and whatever we will be doing we will have a strength, a power, a certainty,
a tremendous feeling of authority.