Comments on: Farid ud-Din Attar – The pilgrim sees no form but His http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2012/05/23/farid-ud-din-attar-the-pilgrim-sees-no-form-but-his/ Sacred Poetry from Around the World Thu, 23 May 2013 00:27:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: patricia taylor http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2012/05/23/farid-ud-din-attar-the-pilgrim-sees-no-form-but-his/#comment-58724 patricia taylor Wed, 30 May 2012 04:04:43 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/?p=2011#comment-58724 Having just closed the last page of Ailsa Piper's Sinning Across Spain, a Walker's journey from Granada To Galicia, and loving every word from this beautiful poet/writer/ actress/ searcher of truth, I am graced to read this poem of pilrimage. Also must recommend David Whyte's new book of pilgrim poems especially Finisterre which is the Land's End of this incredible walk. Having just closed the last page of Ailsa Piper’s Sinning Across Spain, a Walker’s journey from Granada To Galicia, and loving every word from this beautiful poet/writer/ actress/ searcher of truth, I am graced to read this poem of pilrimage. Also must recommend David Whyte’s new book of pilgrim poems especially Finisterre which is the Land’s End of this incredible walk.

]]> By: Bahri Della Penna http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2012/05/23/farid-ud-din-attar-the-pilgrim-sees-no-form-but-his/#comment-57554 Bahri Della Penna Fri, 25 May 2012 00:03:46 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/?p=2011#comment-57554 I love the poem, and recognize its truth, but oh this journey is so very difficult. To embody what we know to be the truth means work, work, work, on oneself, and after so many tiny failures, we can get pretty discouraged. I speak of myself here. I have no choice but to continue the journey until I realize that I didn't have to make the journey in the first place -- that all I've wanted was right here inside me, and under my nose. Till then, I'll continue, and thank God for people like you who help make it easier. I love the poem, and recognize its truth, but oh this journey is so very difficult. To embody

what we know to be the truth means work, work, work, on oneself, and after so many tiny

failures, we can get pretty discouraged.

I speak of myself here. I have no choice but to continue the journey until I realize that I

didn’t have to make the journey in the first place — that all I’ve wanted was right here inside

me, and under my nose.

Till then, I’ll continue, and thank God for people like you who help make it easier.

]]> By: Bob Corbin http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2012/05/23/farid-ud-din-attar-the-pilgrim-sees-no-form-but-his/#comment-57357 Bob Corbin Wed, 23 May 2012 23:01:25 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/?p=2011#comment-57357 Although i love the last eight lines of this poem, i struggle with the first six lines. This is because i agree that the poem is about inclusion, unity, oneness. Yet i find language in the first lines that suggests, to me, exclusion. The pilgrim sees no form but only knows that Tao subsists beneath the passing shows-- The pilgrim comes from it which she can see lives in it. with him, beyond all three. Be lost in Unity's inclusive clench or you are human, but not yet a Mensch. etcetera. Although i love the last eight lines of this poem, i struggle with the first six lines.
This is because i agree that the poem is about inclusion, unity, oneness. Yet i find language in the first lines that suggests, to me, exclusion.

The pilgrim sees no form but only knows
that Tao subsists beneath the passing shows–
The pilgrim comes from it which she can see
lives in it. with him, beyond all three.
Be lost in Unity’s inclusive clench
or you are human, but not yet a Mensch.

etcetera.

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