Comments on: Rainer Maria Rilke – Buddha in Glory

By: rena navon

rena navon — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 18:11:53 +0000

The philosopher Blaise Pascal talks about two infinities, the large and the small. Here they both are, in this deep poem about one in the center and the other, the furthest. As Rilke puts the concept in practice, turning thought to flesh, my French training grows in his hand and turns the young student in me into a spellbound woman.

By: Ivan M. Granger

Ivan M. Granger — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:13:43 +0000

Aparrna-
I used to have a search capability on the blog, but it seems to be inactive right now. Here’s the blog page with that (also wonderful) Rilke poem. Comments welcome!
- Ivan
http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2011/07/25/rainer-maria-rilke-ah-not-to-be-cut-off/

By: janet bradley

janet bradley — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:17:43 +0000

Wendell Berry’s words hit “home” as I sit here missing my dear Colorado from London. Thanks for reminding me to be here.

By: Jelena

Jelena — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 07:41:53 +0000

I loved A Spiritual Journey by Wendell Berry. Powerful. Thank you.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:58:38 +0000

Hello Ivan,

Thank you for sharing the Wendell Berry verse for 10/19/12. I am a great fan of poetry and have never read Mr. Berry’s works. But The New Collected Poems is now in my Amazon shopping cart!

By: aparrna

aparrna — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 05:06:24 +0000

Oh Ivan, i keep stumbling here and there in your teahouse, and then, in a most unlikely, long forgotten corner, i sit down, giddy and happily dazed.
today i went back to another of rilke’s poem you had explained a long time back- Not to be cut off.

Can’t we now comment on older poems somehow? I didn’t see a link to add comments.

By: ebrahim

ebrahim — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:58:58 +0000

what a majestically beautiful poem articulating the truth of a realized one, who himself is all that is, while not being at all. you and the entire worlds, one and the same thing. outwardly, inwardly and just as you are, as everything else is. but oh, beyond the non-existent concrete phenomena’s lie only the truth. and nothing else but it.

In simple terms, you are all that is
While you are really nothing at all
And when all perishes only that will remain
Which alone really is- Even Now!

Now today I stand as a trunk of a tall tree
The branches above me are asking for nourishment
In order to bear fruit whilst I look to the root for wholesome sap
And the root in turn seeks bestowal from the very ground
The whole tree is from.

By: Nasser

Nasser — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 06:47:41 +0000

Ivan,
It is a very delicate and profundly shows the great idea of all ideas about life and the vastness of univers. The eternal position of mind and the timeless secret its beholds within.

By: marrob

marrob — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:24:57 +0000

Ivan,

The Rilke poem is beautiful but what really made my day was your thought of the day re the consensus facade of words. Dis-spelling it feels like re-aligning with
the heart star of truth. Short, simple , elegant & TRUE.

Thank you