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2024-05-07 I Inquiry I The Gap Between I Joel Barna by Appamada

00:00:26 - Dharma Talk
00:22:01 - Ellen Invites comments and reflections


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00:25:45 - Please Call Me By My True Names By Thich Nhat Hanh (see Below)
00:30:53 - Sandra Invites Questions


Unhindered: A Mindful Path Through the Five Hindrances - By Gil fronsdale

Poem: Please Call Me By My True Names
By Thich Nhat Hanh in October 2004

Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow—
even today I am still arriving.
Look deeply: every second I am arriving to be a bud on a Spring branch,
to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings,
learning to sing in my new nest,
to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.
I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry,
to fear and to hope.
The rhythm of my heart
is the birth and death of all that is alive.
I am a may fly metamorphosing on the surface of the river.
And I am the bird that swoops down to swallow the mayfly.
I am a frog swimming happily in the clear water of a pond.
And I am the grass-snake that silently feeds itself on the frog.
I am the child in Uganda,
all skin and bones,my legs as thin as bamboo sticks
.And I am the arms merchant,selling deadly weapons to Uganda.
I am the twelve-year-old girl,refugee on a small boat,
who throws herself into the oceanafter being raped by a sea pirate.
And I am also the pirate,my
heart not yet capable of seeing and loving.
I am a member of the politburo,
with plenty of power in my hands.
And I am the man who has to pay his “debt of blood” to my people
dying slowly in a forced-labor camp.
My joy is like Spring, so warm
it makes flowers bloom all over the Earth.
My pain is like a river of tears, so vast it fills the four oceans.
Please call me by my true names,
so I can hear all my cries and laughter at once,
so I can see that my joy and pain are one.
Please call me by my true names, so I can wake up and the door of my heartcould be left open,
the door of compassion.

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