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Thread #32511   Message #429276
Posted By: GUEST,Hoot & Fidget
30-Mar-01 - 11:48 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Absolutely Clear (poem by Hafiz)
Subject: RE: Help: 'Perfectly Clear' by Hafiz
Well, kat/katlaughing the title wasn't exactly right. The poem I was looking for wasn't Perfectly Clear but Absolutely Clear and goes like this.

Absolutely Clear

Don't surrender your loneliness so quickly,
Let it cut more deep,
Let it ferment and cease in you,
As few human or even devine ingrediants can.
Something missing in my heart tonight,
Made my eyes so soft,
My voice so tender,
My need of God absolutely clear

I really should amend my earlier comments about Ten Thousand Idiots. My belief is that the "Idiots" are the emotions we all feel. What the Taoists refer to as the "Ten Thousand Joys and the Ten Thousand Sorrows". And just because one attains "Enlightenment" doesn't mean the raging emotions will vanish. Merely that one can "respond" to them rather than "react".
The comment about pushing away emotions really belongs to this one.

Thanks Gang