pixelfix » poem http://blog.pixelfix.com random posts Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:51:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Poem for the Living http://blog.pixelfix.com/2009/04/13/poem-for-the-living/ http://blog.pixelfix.com/2009/04/13/poem-for-the-living/#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:43:51 +0000 pixelfix http://blog.pixelfix.com/?p=170 When I am dead,
Cry for me a little.
Think of me sometimes,
But not too much.
It is not good for you
Or your wife or your husband
Or your children
To allow your thoughts to dwell
Too long on the dead.
Think of me now and again
As I was in life
At some moment which is pleasant to recall.
But not for long.
Leave me in peace
As I shall leave you, too, in peace.
While you live,
Let your thoughts be with the living.

By Theodora Kroeber

]]> http://blog.pixelfix.com/2009/04/13/poem-for-the-living/feed/ 0 Metta Sutra On Loving Kindness http://blog.pixelfix.com/2006/01/13/metta-sutra-on-loving-kindness/ http://blog.pixelfix.com/2006/01/13/metta-sutra-on-loving-kindness/#comments Sat, 14 Jan 2006 04:32:09 +0000 pixelfix http://www.pixelfix.com/wordpress/?p=155 This is what should be done
By one who is skilled in goodness,
And who knows the path of peace:
Let them be able and upright,
Straightforward and gentle in speech.
Humble and not conceited,
Contented and easily satisfied.
Unburdened with duties and frugal in their ways.
Peaceful and calm, and wise and skillful,
Not proud and demanding in nature.
Let them not do the slightest thing
That the wise would later reprove.
Wishing: In gladness and in saftey,
May all beings be at ease.
Whatever living beings there may be;
Whether they are weak or strong, omitting none,
The great or the mighty, medium, short or small,
The seen and the unseen,
Those living near and far away,
Those born and to-be-born,
May all beings be at ease!

Let none deceive another,
Or despise any being in any state.
Let none through anger or ill-will
Wish harm upon another.
Even as a mother protects with her life
Her child, her only child,
So with a boundless heart
Should one cherish all living beings:
Radiating kindness over the entire world
Spreading upwards to the skies,
And downwards to the depths;
Outwards and unbounded,
Freed from hatred and ill-will.
Whether standing or walking, seated or lying down
Free from drowsiness,
One should sustain this recollection.
This is said to be the sublime abiding.
By not holding to fixed views,
The pure-hearted one, having clarity of vision,
Being freed from all sense desires,
Is not born again into this world.

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