Comments on: Jacopone da Todi – As air becomes the medium for light http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2012/05/30/jacopone-da-todi-as-air-becomes-the-medium-for-light/ Sacred Poetry from Around the World Sat, 25 May 2013 13:44:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: janet bradley http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2012/05/30/jacopone-da-todi-as-air-becomes-the-medium-for-light/#comment-58988 janet bradley Thu, 31 May 2012 08:28:59 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/?p=2020#comment-58988 "Self will renews the trance of the ego" Thank you Ivan for that poem and helpful commentary. Your poems keep me going while I am so far away from the world that I love (Colorado). “Self will renews the trance of the ego” Thank you Ivan for that poem and helpful commentary. Your poems keep me going while I am so far away from the world that I love (Colorado).

]]> By: Joyce http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2012/05/30/jacopone-da-todi-as-air-becomes-the-medium-for-light/#comment-58908 Joyce Thu, 31 May 2012 00:56:03 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/?p=2020#comment-58908 Thanks for wonderful, illuminating commentary. Every now and then I encounter moments or even minutes of grace, where something moves through me greater than my ordinary self. I treasure these times, and hope they will happen more and more. Thanks for wonderful, illuminating commentary. Every now and then I encounter moments or even minutes of grace, where something moves through me greater than my ordinary self. I treasure these times, and hope they will happen more and more.

]]> By: Ann Lagerblad http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2012/05/30/jacopone-da-todi-as-air-becomes-the-medium-for-light/#comment-58886 Ann Lagerblad Wed, 30 May 2012 22:03:33 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/?p=2020#comment-58886 Thanks Ivan for today's poem and especially your comments. Again awakened belief and longing. They gave me both a form for the thought and hope. Somehow, I have reasoned like "dare I take the step and integrate my new knowledge? I will become like a newborn. I will have to learn all over again, to talk, to walk. It scared me because I thought I would have to do this change and that learning myself. The thought was overwhelming. I forgot that I probably will do nothing and like you wrote, also will be supplied, guided of the Beloved's will. I feel that this would be such a relief to do the finally surrender. No more be little me, just part of the whole, One. Just to be waft through the "the written plan". Thank you. Thanks Ivan for today’s poem and especially your comments. Again awakened belief and longing. They gave me both a form for the thought and hope. Somehow, I have reasoned like “dare I take the step and integrate my new knowledge? I will become like a newborn. I will have to learn all over again, to talk, to walk. It scared me because I thought I would have to do this change and that learning myself. The thought was overwhelming. I forgot that I probably will do nothing and like you wrote, also will be supplied, guided of the Beloved’s will. I feel that this would be such a relief to do the finally surrender. No more be little me, just part of the whole, One. Just to be waft through the “the written plan”. Thank you.

]]> By: Sallyannie http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2012/05/30/jacopone-da-todi-as-air-becomes-the-medium-for-light/#comment-58885 Sallyannie Wed, 30 May 2012 21:49:44 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/?p=2020#comment-58885 This is lovely Ivan! Poems like this make me stop, stare, wonder and feel and maybe I'll even be lucky enough to sense the essence of the universe too! Many thanks, Sallyannie This is lovely Ivan! Poems like this make me stop, stare, wonder and feel and maybe I’ll even be lucky enough to sense the essence of the universe too! Many thanks, Sallyannie

]]> By: Bob Corbin http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2012/05/30/jacopone-da-todi-as-air-becomes-the-medium-for-light/#comment-58867 Bob Corbin Wed, 30 May 2012 20:24:05 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/?p=2020#comment-58867 A beautiful poem. I was introduced to this poet through Chaikhana, and i am grateful. I focused on the same portion of the commentary as the previous commenters, Very useful. Thank you. A beautiful poem. I was introduced to this poet through Chaikhana, and i am grateful.

I focused on the same portion of the commentary as the previous commenters,
Very useful. Thank you.

]]> By: Carol Burns http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2012/05/30/jacopone-da-todi-as-air-becomes-the-medium-for-light/#comment-58846 Carol Burns Wed, 30 May 2012 18:04:32 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/?p=2020#comment-58846 Thank you Ivan. Beautiful poem and wonderful commentary. It seems similar to the concept True Self and False Self. In any event, thank you for the wisdom. Carol Thank you Ivan. Beautiful poem and wonderful commentary. It seems similar to
the concept True Self and False Self. In any event, thank you for the wisdom.
Carol

]]> By: Duane Tucker http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2012/05/30/jacopone-da-todi-as-air-becomes-the-medium-for-light/#comment-58817 Duane Tucker Wed, 30 May 2012 16:07:37 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/?p=2020#comment-58817 Ivan, This is simply brilliant Consider, is there a way to drop this self-will, to be free from its clutches, without becoming an inactive lump on the couch? Is there a form of will that does not originate with the ego and constantly return our attention to it? Finding this second will, what is it like? This other will is profound, immense, powerful, yet not our own. It is a form of will that does not serve the little self. It is not possessed by us, and it does not concern itself with possession of things or experiences. To unleash this will in our lives requires an elegant balance between yielding and stepping forward, between passivity and attentive action, between selflessness and presence. Actions take place through us, but we are not the actors. What we normally think of as the self is not directing the action. This frees up a great portion of psychic energy, and we become awestruck witnesses to life playing out through us and all around us -- a vision of immense beauty! It has eyes only for this beauty Ivan,

This is simply brilliant

Consider, is there a way to drop this self-will, to be free from its clutches, without becoming an inactive lump on the couch? Is there a form of will that does not originate with the ego and constantly return our attention to it? Finding this second will, what is it like? This other will is profound, immense, powerful, yet not our own. It is a form of will that does not serve the little self. It is not possessed by us, and it does not concern itself with possession of things or experiences. To unleash this will in our lives requires an elegant balance between yielding and stepping forward, between passivity and attentive action, between selflessness and presence. Actions take place through us, but we are not the actors. What we normally think of as the self is not directing the action.

This frees up a great portion of psychic energy, and we become awestruck witnesses to life playing out through us and all around us — a vision of immense beauty!

It has eyes only for this beauty

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