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Tuesday, May 30, 2017

James Brown,Try me

Sam Cooke ,What A Wonderful World (Official Lyric Video)

Andreas Vollenweider ,Book Of Roses

SOLER ANTONIO ,Fandango,L'Arpeggiata.

Buddhism, true love, Thich Nhat Hanh



transcription taken from comments, and gratefully:

'The Buddha is a teacher of love, true love. Love for mother earth should be true love. And if it is true love, it can bring a lot of happiness to you and to mother earth. And romantic love, if it is true love, it can also bring a lot of happiness. But if it is not true love, it will make you suffer, and make the other suffer as well. And in the teaching of the Buddha, true love needs four elements. First of all, maitri, loving kindness, that is the capacity to offer happiness. If you cannot offer happiness, that’s not true love. In romantic love, if you are not able to help the other person [be] happy, that’s not true love. So you should train yourself in order to be able to offer happiness to you and to him or to her. Without that, both will suffer. The second element of true love is compassion. Compassion is the kind of energy that can help remove suffering. It can help transform the suffering in you and in the other person. If you cannot transform and take care of the suffering in you and in [the] other person, that is not true love. That is why karuna, the second element of true love, should be cultivated by you and by the other person. Romantic and not romantic, that’s not important. The important [thing] is it is true love or not true love. Right? And the third element of true love is joy. If by loving you make the other person cry all the time, and you cry all the time, that’s not true love, romantic or not romantic. True love is inclusiveness; that you do not exclude. His suffering is your suffering, his happiness is your happiness. There’s no individual suffering and happiness any more. In true love, there is the element of inclusiveness, non-discrimination, there’s no separation, there’s no frontier, between you and the other person. In that spirit, you cannot say “That’s your problem.” No. Your problem is my problem. My suffering is your suffering. So this is true love, the forth element of true love. And if romantic love has these four elements, it can bring a lot of happiness also. And the Buddha never said negative things about true love. And romantic love, if you are successful, you will cultivate a lot of loving kindness and compassion, and very soon, your love will be all-embracing. The other person is no longer the only object of your love, because your love continue[s] to grow and your love will embrace all of us. And happiness become[s] limitless. And that is the love of the Buddha. That is the meaning of the forth element of true love, inclusiveness. If it is true love, then it will continue to grow, and include more and more and more, not only humans, but also animals, vegetables, and minerals, and that is great love, maha-karuna, maha-maitri. And that is the love of the Buddha.'

The Journey, Mary Oliver

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice--
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do--
determined to save
the only life you could save.

Klaus Schulze , My Ty She



hum, a bit too much adapted to mainstream, no?
was drawn by the painting...

Cat Stevens ,I Want To Live In A Wigwam





the tree hut..:-)~~~

there is still a life ahead,

and ageing is life to be lived,

a time of sweet surrender

and letting go the past,

a time with no children to raise

and for much deeper and truer

love undisturbed by the rush of

modern working regulations,

a time to fill from inside

all growing wider and not loaded

with the ambition and push of youth,

it is not a cycle to fear and despise

but to accept with all the richness

it can bring and with the growth of

reconciliation and plasticity

in the face of death coming nearer,

death not as something horrible, but as release

and grace and mercy when it will be time.

when we want the sweetness we have to peel the skin

when we want the sweetness
we have to peel the skin
and cut all through
to the core

when the skin is naked
we can taste the essence
of onions and fruit

when we cut the grass
the air we breathe
fills with its fragrance

the gift of maturing
is the time of harvesting
in the cycles of life

when we love
we peel off layer
for layer

and it all
does not come off easily,
our clothes stick
with the glue of fear

and our heads
are full with shit
pouring out
with the rain

and all of a moment
we caress the bark
of old trees

and the earth
embraces us:
we have arrived

to listening,
the weight has left,
we entered the now.