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This was the lead singer of the Door

Where’s the women appearing and walking backward toward you verse?

Yes, yes indeed

🙏💗💚🥢🦚🌵🌳🌴🎍🌿☘️🪴🪷

🙏💗💓💞🌺🙏

There is no other like him.

This was on BBC2 Newsnight in early 95 before the Nobel. I was sitting by my father and heard it. The sound effects here, the tick tockery, well where do I begin? This poem stands alone.

Flawless!

beautiful

This is so beautiful and touching. He’s speaking directly from his soul. Thank you for this post, bless everyone. Peace and good will to all. ❤

Little Jimmy is the greatest voice humanity has been gifted with. He really is immortal. Thanks for your work. It has saved me.

Why this filter?

Is there this audio without music in the back? ❤

Wow!

I wonder what poets that meet and visit have to say to each other . . . roses are red . . . love that is untrue . . . innovation and intention . . . some draft of political convention . . . those dreams . . . those screams . . . dug up words and graveside lines . . . something wise . . . something divine . . . a lover and another . . . perhaps dessert and a recent haiku . . .

Love that line "someone looked down the Babble's tower, ignoring the birds above him".

It's very true and can't be applied to any internal processes.

For me a tree is a cathedral 😍

❤

Oof

Thank you!

Wiseman!

this is so beautiful, thank you:)

The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand

This poem always makes me cry.

Legend

“The air, green tea”… so cool

Makes me cry

Amazing!! Good Irishman

How to sacrifice the ego? "It is impossible. The ego cannot be sacrificed because the ego exists not. The ego is just all idea: it has no substance in it. It is not something - it is just pure nothing. You give it reality by believing in it. You can withdraw belief and the reality disappears, evaporates. The ego is a kind of absence. Because you don’t know yourself, hence the ego. The moment you know yourself, no ego is found. The ego is like darkness; darkness has no positive existence of its own; it is simply the absence of light. You cannot fight with darkness, or can you? You cannot throw darkness out of the room; you cannot take it out, you cannot take it in. You cannot do anything with darkness directly. If you want to do anything with darkness, you will have to do something with light. If you put the light on, there is no darkness; if you put the light off, there is darkness. Darkness is only the absence of light, so is ego: absence of self-knowledge. You cannot sacrifice it. It has been told to you again and again: “Sacrifice your ego” - and the statement is patently absurd, because something that does not exist cannot be sacrificed. And if you try to sacrifice it, something which is not there in the first place at all, you will be creating a new ego - the ego of the humble, the ego of the egoless, the ego of the person who thinks he has sacrificed his ego. It will be a new kind of darkness again. No, I don’t say to you sacrifice the ego. On the contrary, I say try to see where the ego is. Look deep into it; try to locate it, where it exists, whether it exists at all or not. Before one can sacrifice anything one must be certain about its existence. But don’t be against it from the very beginning. If you are against it, you cannot look deep into it. There is no need to be against anything. The ego is your experience - maybe it is just apparent, but it is still your experience. Your whole life moves around the phenomenon of the ego. It may be a dream, but to you it is so true. There is no need to be against it. Dive deep into it, go into it. Going into it means bringing awareness into your house, bringing light into darkness. Be alert, watchful. Watch the ways of the ego, how it functions, how it manages at all. And you will be surprised: the deeper you go into it, the less it is found. And when you have penetrated to the very core of your being, you will find something totally different which is not ego, which is egolessness. It is self, supreme self - it is godliness. You have disappeared as a separate entity; you are no more an island. Now you are part of the whole."

Absolutely genius 👏 .

beautiful

One of my favourite Seamus Heaney poems (and especially as a parent). Thank you.

gud content. great talk

I love this man

Authentic.

A treasure trove of spectacular writing in his works.

Absolutely amazing teaching from Thay and such a beautiful video of our wonderful Mother earth . Thank you 🙏🏻

Is there more <3 Thank you!

So you have more <3

The ego is somewhat of a mystery. It was put in place for protecting the self and to create individuality. But it has grown to a distorted proportion fed by many things but mostly media (corporate pricks ) , the entertainment industry and the advertising industry. Admiring your artistic expression Jim ! Thanks for sharing!

So beautiful. Thank u. It says 5 min meditation. But is only 3 50 min long really... could imagine it being even more beautiful if the music just went on quietly until the 5 min were full. Have a beautiful day. Bless u where ever you are who ever reads this. Buddhas light shines here now. A single candle enlightens the darkness ..so it be

Thank you

Big Writer Mr JIM

Just the best.

The best ever. The Godfather.

Beautiful talk from beginning to end. Thank you for sharing. I also enjoyed the calming visual.

Just the best.

Awesome. Thanks.

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