Comments on: Li Po – The birds have vanished into the sky http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2013/03/18/li-po-the-birds-have-vanished-into-the-sky-2/ Sacred Poetry from Around the World Sat, 18 May 2013 21:50:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: lakshmikmbhat http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2013/03/18/li-po-the-birds-have-vanished-into-the-sky-2/#comment-109920 lakshmikmbhat Fri, 22 Mar 2013 06:09:44 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/?p=2481#comment-109920 A simply beautiful thought:) Thanks , Lakshmi Bhat A simply beautiful thought:)
Thanks ,
Lakshmi Bhat

]]> By: Therese Monaghan O.P. http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2013/03/18/li-po-the-birds-have-vanished-into-the-sky-2/#comment-109447 Therese Monaghan O.P. Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:41:35 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/?p=2481#comment-109447 Ah--Li Po's blessed simplicity in his images revealing profound understanding of our eternal self. Thank you for this poem, Ivan, and your commentary. It made me stop fussing around this morning and and just enjoy my being--in the stillness. Namaste, Therese Ah–Li Po’s blessed simplicity in his images revealing profound understanding of our eternal self.
Thank you for this poem, Ivan, and your commentary. It made me stop fussing around this morning and and just enjoy my being–in the stillness.
Namaste,
Therese

]]> By: ebrahim http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2013/03/18/li-po-the-birds-have-vanished-into-the-sky-2/#comment-109196 ebrahim Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:10:41 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/?p=2481#comment-109196 that spirit has returned to its home leaving the shell of the form to drip away that original image of the mountain returns to it leaving only it to remain "There is no target falling short of him nor anything else to aim at beyond him. He is the outwardly manifest without the need of the illusion or the imagination and the inwardly hidden absolutely pure without that bringing into non-existence" ihya that spirit has returned to its home
leaving the shell of the form
to drip away

that original image of the mountain
returns to it
leaving only it to remain

“There is no target falling short of him nor anything else to aim at beyond him. He is the outwardly manifest without the need of the illusion or the imagination and the inwardly hidden absolutely pure without that bringing into non-existence” ihya

]]> By: Martina http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2013/03/18/li-po-the-birds-have-vanished-into-the-sky-2/#comment-109035 Martina Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:33:53 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/?p=2481#comment-109035 Love this!! Love this!!

]]> By: Kat http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2013/03/18/li-po-the-birds-have-vanished-into-the-sky-2/#comment-109033 Kat Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:24:32 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/?p=2481#comment-109033 Thank you, Beautiful. I enjoy your site.. it does bring me, much Joy. take care. Love and Light* Thank you, Beautiful. I enjoy your site.. it does bring me, much Joy. take care.
Love and Light*

]]> By: Jelena http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2013/03/18/li-po-the-birds-have-vanished-into-the-sky-2/#comment-109032 Jelena Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:23:59 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/?p=2481#comment-109032 Thank you Ivan, for your enlightening interpretation of the poem. I always enjoy reading the poems you post as well as your personal responses to them. Also, thanks to you and to your website, I was encouraged to publish my book of poems, entitled WITH THE LAMP OF MY SOUL. It can be found on the Amazon.com, the Barnesandnoble.com, and the publisher Xlibris.com. under my maiden name, Helena Bango. I hope that you read it one day. Through your website I was guided toward the Xlibris. Thank you kindly, Jelena. Thank you Ivan, for your enlightening interpretation of the poem. I always enjoy reading the poems you post as well as your personal responses to them.

Also, thanks to you and to your website, I was encouraged to publish my book of poems,
entitled WITH THE LAMP OF MY SOUL. It can be found on the Amazon.com, the Barnesandnoble.com, and the publisher Xlibris.com. under my maiden name, Helena Bango. I hope that you read it one day. Through your website I was guided toward the Xlibris.
Thank you kindly, Jelena.

]]> By: Christopher http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2013/03/18/li-po-the-birds-have-vanished-into-the-sky-2/#comment-109001 Christopher Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:58:51 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/?p=2481#comment-109001 Thank you Ivan. Love this poem and your commentary today. All the best. Thank you Ivan. Love this poem and your commentary today. All the best.

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