in passing
life passes,
time passes,
transient waves
ephemeral clouds
wandering winds
the moving earth
the elusive fire
…
wisdom is to
witness and behold,
ignorance is to
embrace and hold
© supratik 2023
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life passes,
time passes,
transient waves
ephemeral clouds
wandering winds
the moving earth
the elusive fire
…
wisdom is to
witness and behold,
ignorance is to
embrace and hold
wisdom is to
witness and behold,
ignorance is to
embrace and hold
Wise words indeed. The aborigines of Australia knew this. As do/did so many tribes whose survival depended on knowledge of nature.
Worship the land for it gives life, but don’t try to possess it.
Thank you, Guaj. I appreciate it.
embrace is too positive to be used after ignorance, in fact it is to ‘witness and behold’ but again there can be five or six words that could replace the original and I would not ask you to reconsider hadn’t I found it yet not nailed. so embrace in my opinion should be replaced with seize and hold or you should you be keeping ”embrace” then you would need something like ”cling on” (a dead end an obsessive return to what you already embraced without critical thinking) and behold would be better if instead you said “absorb” absorbing has a… Read more »
Okay! Let it continue then? Thank you.
the ignorance of Gollum (LOTR) that seized the ring,
and we say carpe diem, we are urged in many ways to seize the day without knowing what the day could bring OR what a day should bring.
there are many fascinating aspects of such wisdom and such ignorance.
Yes, precisely. In a space where everything is so fugitive, and elusive, what is the need to cling on to anything at all? If we end the discussion here, it is not quite okay because the space in question is not ephemeral; that which is the truth doesn’t change, whatever changes is not the truth, so, if you are being in the passing (not clinging on to anything), then you are not being in the truth. There is also another aspect to it, and that is being in witness consciousness is also clinging on to something; therefore, there is no… Read more »
Another meditation that I find worth considering; though not quite sure about embracing ignorance – that reads like an oxymoron – am I missing something?
Dougie
Thank you. About missing something, it is yes and no.
Ah! Maybe I should be reading it as being content not to know everything – only what we need to know – the known unknowns, as the great sage Rumsfeld may have put it?
I am sure you would have noticed that I tried to use the five elements, viz. the earth, the water, the fire, the air, and the sky (though not so directly). I was coming back to clarify this, my friend. Language unites, but it also divides. For instance, here if you choose to read it in a certain way (to hold is to embrace ignorance, then you do have a point in missing something as we normally dissociate the two words; so, when you use them together, it becomes, as you rightly pointed out, an oxymoron); but if you understand… Read more »