Let’s try

Let’s try to forget that we know anything

Let’s try to pretend

Let’s try to appeal to this one thing

Yes It’s our need

Yes It is our end

 

Yes Let’s use the reason of this moment

And with logic defend

Our right to understand

That truth that we tend

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Let’s try to forget from where we come

You are not my Father nor am I your Mum

For truth is above us

Our existence in sum

The songs of far spirits

And of the near bird’s hum

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Let’s try to forget the uncertain future

For truth is the method for which to reveal

The destiny of us creatures

And To whom we would kneel

Let’s try to forget

But never forget

The truth that we seek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Communication… Our Need

Speaking about Communication and our deep need to it, one form of communication is Conversation and If one might analyse what is a conversation: it is in it’s basic form the action of speaking and listening.
But a conversation is not only speaking and listening, after that comes clarification, so any true progress in further speaking and listening is based upon clarification that leads to understanding.
At the point of Understanding comes this variable called opinion, the opinion shows the personal attitude towards a certain subject of understanding.
For the conversation to progress further and not to stop at the point of opinion, a proof must be given to those opinions and here starts a discussion or an argument.
In understanding the arguments of others one truly communicates because one gets to know from where this person comes and where and how can he helps the other”oneself”.
Behind all that is the Issue of Will and the capacity to carry on into those steps of conversation, if there is no will or capacity for any of those things “being :speaking, listening, clarification,Sharing Opinions, Arguing” a certain disorder will occur to what we call communication… Comunication at this point will stop at a certain measure or it might continue through a deformed way and lead to the absolute opposite of communication which is a quarrel which leads to distance.
I bet we rarely communicate with anyone.

May the devil be with you

For all the prayers that we pray to the spiritually unknown
And all the desires that can’t fit to be heavenly

For the moments we pray for a fast answer
For the thoughts that come and go and have no root in them

For the prayers that only serve you
May the devil be with you

To possess

 

I have been intending to write about this for a long time….. This is a sentence that I usually use in the beginning of the things I write, it is a possession, I don’t know how to start that’s another sentence I use…. It is also a possession.

 I will not speak generally or inclusively about possessions and to possess, but let me speak about this only… a possession is something that one can access freely… a possession is something one can check from time to time

And every desirable check or satisfying one proofs that one possesses that thing, every undesirable check threatens the possession of that thing; it threatens the bonds that one has with that possession.

 Yes, there are bonds between a possessor and a possession, if there are no bonds there is no possession.

There are many things in life that can be considered as a possession even life itself, and one can’t imagine how many bonds we have in this life, one can’t imagine that our whole life can be all about to possess and make bonds.

Our experience is a possession, Your Past is one, and Time is one

Our Bodies and Dreams is a possession

A fleeting thing is undesirable… and while we can see somehow that in life we are driven to possess life, life itself is fleeting.

Life itself is fleeting and most of the bonds and possessions we get to acquire are not lasting they are not eternal or even permanent, for change is there and this form of life will be changed too.

I have had something like an accident lately… catching something like a bus I slipped and while this car dragged me for a short time and I did take hold of it and my life it could have been not just enough for me to survive… a thing like what happened to me could kill others, and while I thanked God for having this ability to fight for my life I know that it is not enough save me.

At this moment… bouncing like a meat ball and degraded to the most abstract probabilities of life and death… One must think of who is the possessor.

 

I invite you to wonder

Maybe there are two ways to write about this issue, and maybe I fear the fact of failing to express its significance.

The first way is to put it directly and bluntly and in the simplest forms and honesty and this can be easy while it might lose a great deal of its artistry and even significance.

The second way is to put in awkward upside down artistic form and through stimulating language to help you to wonder.

The issue is not merely religious or spiritual or even human, the issue touches the essence of our existence.

And while it is about the person of Jesus and his words, Jesus when he was on earth he was only Jesus and people could only perceive the profundity and  significance of his words only through their relevancy and truth and not through any kind of prejudice or expectancy.

Suppose he was only a teacher or even a mystic or a leader suppose he is only an ordinary man.

“Now I have taken another way-not the first or the second-“

Let us look at this particularly and this is whole point of the article…..

He said to his disciples “not quoting the actual bible verses”:   You will do greater things than I do…If you believed in me

And what I am wondering about is that, how can any leader want this, especially when he was talking about miracles, signs and wonders

For prophets and great leaders are measured by their great deeds, and when some like to brag about their miracles, He told his disciples that they will do more

Isn’t He the Ultimate miracle maker, But I bet through this he could give a vocation to anyone to do more miracles than He did, why!! Because his vocation was not to do miracles….He came to set things straight and out of nothing to create a thing

And why should one of his disciples say in one of his books that I came to complete the sufferings of Jesus, was it not enough, why should Jesus let such a thing to be recorded and even to be put in his Word….

Try to compare him with others, and try to think also about what is Glory….

Why should this be relevant to our existence…?

Jesus was and always will be different than us as the difference between nothing and a thing, He creates out of nothing, and He initiates things that are not, so he can’t be compared to anyone…

And we will always resemble him because we came out of him out of his Word

Can he give the vocation of the ultimate miracle maker to one of his disciples?

Can a saint or a mystic even fly or disappear and reappear?

Can we make miracles?

I believe yes, because He created this and authorized it, He made it possible and gave us the true meaning of it…

He gave us the raw materials the something in which we can create and innovate, and it is this that it is not about a certain kind of ego it is about to know him and believe him….

Now I don’t know if it is relevant or not but in the end have you thought of ever doing miracles… doing what is beyond our human capacity…. Then I invite you to wonder

Zambo

 

 

 

 

 

I walked

And this time instead of passing this point by I stopped and waited for it became a waiting point and I started realizing the waiting people also and how they stood there as if it home when I have found it uncomfortable .Life are some points hardly recognized in luxury but in the time of need. I waited for a thing to carry me to the next point… and while I was not in the favor of waiting and the people I saw in the eyes of hurry, I left, I walked……

Our means and ends

I have been intending to write this before and I think now is the time, for the thoughts and the incidents that aroused these thoughts have been persistent to deliver me to this conclusion.

Life is hard, life is hard because it has this aspect of means and ends.

And while we always seek the ends our whole lives are there, existing in the means.

Simply to illustrate the term “means and ends” to those who are not accustomed to it, ends can be the goals and needs, means are the ways to attain and achieve them.

What I want to point to are incidents that we witness or even take part in that shows the complexity of this simple equation of means and ends.

A thing that usually happens is that you are walking in the street and another person happens to stop you and ask you for direction, and if you are inexperienced like me and not good at guessing, you will simply say that you don’t know……

What is strange is that the other person shows features of dissatisfaction and might even curse you in his mind and say what an imbecile you are, and what is strange or maybe that’s not strange that you know it somehow and it doesn’t matter…..

However let’s try to reflect upon that,
In life we meet people who have needs”Ends”, some pass us by and some stay

And all the time would hang in the background of this relation a question like do you know the directions to a happy life?!!

Some of a frank nature would say through many ways “No, I don’t” and while others might show a promising attitude and be the most deceiving

And it is all there in the means” the whole problem” the means to answer their question and yours.

Another thing that usually happens also, you are sitting in a place you opened the window and then came another person who closes it or even you want to sit on a certain chair in the bus and then come another person and sits on it…

And you get angry and maybe curse the other person in your mind….

To reflect upon this, It is that each person we meet in life desires a thing ”an End” and these things that this person desires generally contradict and oppose ours, like a guy wanting to marry a girl and she simply doesn’t…..

And also it is in the means of considering that fact and dealing with it that we can attain some ends…

Shortly life is hard, and we have all the right to get mad when our ends are not met but keep it always in mind to think of your means and ends and the means and ends of others….Ends are external, Means are internal and for this fact we need to curb and probe…. Remember it curb and probe your means and ends for the sake of the others and for your sake… Yes give space to others and to God and see what will happen.

Zambo

Lunch box

Society gave him a lunch box-in your journey you will need food Society said-.
He took his Lunch box and with enthusiasm went on his journey-there in the lunch box were forms of things, forms of people-.
Some colorful, some old and some dead blue, they were his food for he was a Giant-he was Larger than others-.

On his journey he collected them and in the lunch box he put them.

Once I saw him holding this little form of a friend-blue it was-he looked at it with disdain but put it also in the box.
In the box some people were rice some were chicken and some were fruits –not all in bad rotten state-.
With the fork of Memory he ate, and a handkerchief of Resolution to clean his mouth-he took good care of his hygiene-.

But also I saw the same friend he was not blue anymore-he was a Giant too-.

On a table of Distance the two old friends sat – they didn’t recognize one another-.

Both ate from their lunch boxes-both proud about Experience-.
They ate and ate and ate……..

And by the time I came nearer, I looked intently and found that they died-poisoned-.

Zambo

And I ate

And we eat, and we drink, and we continue, doing these dangerous acts of what is called the normal life, for if we have the guarantee of breathing it would have been different.

How can we be of this carelessness concerning a reconciled life with ourselves and with God?!!

And I ate and will sleep and I can’t reach it

Zambo

The Hen and the Egg

                                                           

                                                       

                                                    “It has been a while since the last thing I wrote”

Here I am smiling to this young man, with his huge afro and his weird look, with his ideas that I consider to be futile, I smile to him and I know that he is leading a life so much different than mine.
I smile to him and I like it, I am so delighted by it, I smile to him and to all those people in that gathering with their strange beliefs and looks , I like them , and I can’t say that I love them yet.
I like the pleasantness and fun that we have while discussing serious issues that I think I have the answers to, but I can’t impose them.
Those answers and those moments are what I wonder about, they are the struggle between the objective and the subjective, the pragmatic and dogmatic, individuality and community, learning through solitude and learning through conversation, yes the struggle of the moment and the big picture.
How much have I been sinking in objectivity, how long have I disdained the subjective? And the subjective is dangerous because it is relative and unstable.
Yes I see people sinking in relative subjectivity and what is true to them is insignificant, but this must not keep me in towers of dogma.
How can I gather between the pleasantness of the subjective yet not be deceived and the usefulness of the objective yet not be dead?!!

                                            “I think I have wrote something with the same meaning”

Zambo