Awesome response. The poem Wasteland poem was also written shortly after the ending of World War I and there were many areas that looked like wasteland so it's an effective reminder of what man is capable of doing. Also in earlier times when battles were more dependent on good weather typically April the troops would stir after their winter encampments and begin fighting again. Another sad reminder of man's creating wasteland and burials of the dead.
In Japan I saw very old trees. In the USA trees are not always valued for their "inner spirit" nor the joy they give others. One tree I saw in Takayama was 800+ years old. Americans cannot fathom that.
Not only do you summarize one of Chaplin's movies - City Lights (and I do believe the flower girl was blind) - but you manage to weave in Chaplin's life story and why 'The Tramp' was created in the first place.
He came from nothing and became such an icon, all while showing the world that you did not have to lose your humanity in the process.
Thanks for joining me in celebrating Charlie Chaplin's 136th birthday with your tribute!
Yes, I agree. Fascist/autocratic/theocratic states in Russia and the USA will force Europe and Canada into a partnership that may benefit the world. May they be the light going forward.
“Though He is everywhere and everything, still in His play He makes us believe that He is far from us.
Isn’t it wonderful?
Any karma or kriya we do brings a result, but it can never take us to Him. But if He attracts us, then He sweeps us along like the ocean and no one can alter this.
Just as it is the natural result of digging to find water at some stage, just as it is natural that there should be a spark if one goes on rubbing two sticks together, so it is natural that the regular practice of cultivating his ‘abhava’ (state of total emptiness) should take us to Him.
The joy we receive from this contact only emphasizes our awareness of the pain caused by our ultimate separateness and this will inspire us to make even greater efforts to unite completely with Him.
But the result of meditation is still not He as long as it remains within the realm of experience. Only when the experiencer is wholly dissolved in the experience is the supreme Truth revealed. “
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