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Between Art And Enlightenment
BROKEN — HEARTED BRAVERY
As we read in the newspapers and see on television, the world is deteriorating, one thing after the other, every hour, every minute. A fantastically large number of people need help. Your help doesn’t have to be a big deal. To begin with, just work with your friends and work with yourself at the same time. It is about time that we became responsible for this world. It will pay for itself.
From “The Kingdom, the Cocoon, the Great Eastern Sun,”
~Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
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“The worst thing we ever did
was put God in the sky
out of reach
pulling the divinity
from the leaf,
sifting out the holy from our bones,
insisting God isn’t bursting dazzlement
through everything we’ve made
a hard commitment to see as ordinary,
stripping the sacred from everywhere
to put in a cloud man elsewhere,
prying closeness from your heart.
The worst thing we ever did
was take the dance and the song
out of prayer
made it sit up straight
and cross its legs
removed it of rejoicing
wiped…
