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The Shame of Religion [rev:15]

25 Mar

Page 6 of 110 ~Pine Cone Diary~

Why do we seek revenge, when our Soul

        Is a ghost without identity; that seeks peaceful universal assimilation?

Those who capture other’s souls of Faith, caged in hate or repression, have honed their zeal

        To inflict retribution as righteous judgment, on all “un-holy” dissidents.

Unable for their hearts to control their tongue or their scourge.

 

Love’s prerequisite of understanding, dampens volatile gun powder

        And buries the sword of hate on the path to Nirvana, Olam Ha-Ba, Heaven, and Jannah …

Or any place else that is soft enough to dig with your hands, under loves direction, to bury your hate

wrapped in your inability to leave it alone. Silent until you truly understand.

(Having found on that path, without harm, a pure gentle human heart melted in living flesh

That had no eyes, nor memory, floating freely, Holy above the intellect in senses

without shame, I found myself without anything, for my Love, to have to explain.)

 

 

 “In the universal silence of nature and in the calm of the senses the immortal spirit’s hidden faculty of knowledge speaks an ineffable language and gives [us] undeveloped concepts, which are indeed felt, but do not let themselves be described.”  Immanuel  Kant

 

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14 responses to “The Shame of Religion [rev:15]

  1. Julian

    March 27, 2017 at 1:02 pm

    Well penned

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  2. Colleen@ LOOSELEAFNOTES

    March 27, 2017 at 9:03 am

    “Love’s prerequisite of understanding, dampens volatile gun powder” is such a powerful and memorable line.

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  3. Rosemary Nissen-Wade

    March 27, 2017 at 2:17 am

    Ah, beautifully said.

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  4. Sumana Roy

    March 27, 2017 at 12:04 am

    it’s all this infamous ego’s doings…words like ‘I’, ‘Me’ ‘myself’, ‘Mine’ seem to be the ingredients hell is made of….so ‘Love’ has fled….

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  5. gillena

    March 26, 2017 at 10:56 pm

    “Love’s prerequisite of understanding, dampens volatile gun powder”

    My favourite verse

    Thank you for dropping in at my Sunday Standard today

    Much love…

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  6. Magaly Guerrero

    March 26, 2017 at 10:42 pm

    Paradise doesn’t seem like the sort of place that welcomes bullets or swords or hatred… Well said.

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  7. thotpurge

    March 26, 2017 at 9:25 pm

    Or any place else that is soft enough to dig with your hands, under loves direction, to bury your hate… that’s beautifully said.

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  8. magicalmysticalteacher

    March 26, 2017 at 8:30 pm

    Burying the sword of hate is a difficult task…

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  9. C.C.

    March 26, 2017 at 5:37 pm

    Oh, the inability to leave it alone….this is so often our undoing. If only we could just BE and let things alone.

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  10. Sanaa Rizvi (@rizvi_sanaa)

    March 26, 2017 at 3:54 pm

    Oh yes, revenge is baseless.. there is no point in going through such pain and angst..

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  11. Sherry Marr

    March 26, 2017 at 3:48 pm

    I love that “place soft enough to dig with your hands …to bury your hate.” Wonderful, ZQ! With enough burying, we just might get to a place of peace. And oh, how I love your closing lines. That is truly Love – no need to explain, only to Be. Hard to find, at best.

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  12. Mary

    March 26, 2017 at 3:05 pm

    I agree – there is no place for revenge in religion. Let god be the judge, but let humanity accept.

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  13. Björn Rudberg (brudberg)

    March 26, 2017 at 1:32 pm

    There are part of religion that I cannot understand… the gospel is actually very simple, but we do dig up the worst and call it church…

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  14. Kerry O'Connor

    March 26, 2017 at 1:25 pm

    Love’s prerequisite of understanding, dampens volatile gun powder.

    This is such a strong line – most thought-provoking for our times.

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