Western Dharma

[Taigu]

Just found and old favourite song of mine...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wp4O7v5320&feature=related

and some thirty years later, a bit more dusty, but well, just great...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XvI__yHNow&feature=related

I close my eyes
only for a moment
and the moments gone
all my dreams
pass before my eyes in curiosity
dust in the wind,
all they are is dust in the wind

Same old song,
just a drop of water
in an endless sea
all we do,
crumbles to the ground
though we refuse to see
dust in the wind,
all we are is dust in the wind

Don't hang on
nothing lasts forever
but the earth and sky
it slips away
and all your money,
won't another minute buy

Dust in the wind
all we are is dust in the wind
dust in the wind
everithing is dust in the wind
dust in the wind


Just one side of the coin but so damn right.


gassho


Taigu

[Omoi Otoshi]

Thank you Taigu,

Here's a favourite poem of mine on the same theme:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxawiWqf4gA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

I just listened to it and made me cry. Tonight I dedicated my sitting to the parents of a 14-year-old boy who died.

Gassho,
Pontus

[Mp]

Just found and old favourite song of mine...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wp4O7v5320&feature=related

and some thirty years later, a bit more dusty, but well, just great...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XvI__yHNow&feature=related

I close my eyes
only for a moment
and the moments gone
all my dreams
pass before my eyes in curiosity
dust in the wind,
all they are is dust in the wind

Same old song,
just a drop of water
in an endless sea
all we do,
crumbles to the ground
though we refuse to see
dust in the wind,
all we are is dust in the wind

Don't hang on
nothing lasts forever
but the earth and sky
it slips away
and all your money,
won't another minute buy

Dust in the wind
all we are is dust in the wind
dust in the wind
everithing is dust in the wind
dust in the wind


Just one side of the coin but so damn right.


gassho


Taigu

Beautiful Taigu ... this too is one of my all time favorites.

Gassho
Michael

[Myoshin]

It's so beautiful and tremendous, to admit that we are an illusion, or nothing in the absolute (even real in the relative). Sometimes my mind is scared with this idea.
It sounds like Dogen if I don't misunderstand.

Gassho

Yang Hsin

[Amelia]

I love this song, too. I love how in the newer recording the crowd just went nuts hearing that familiar guitar opening.

"And all your money won't another minute buy..." I like this line the most.

I love it when the older, excellent artists get back on the road. Just saw Peter Gabriel, who is my absolute favorite musician, in on the eighth. Also saw him once before in 2002. Roger Waters still sounded every bit like himself when I saw him perform "The Wall" in December 2010. Neil Young smashed the crap out of a guitar with as much vigor as ever when I saw him in 2009. I am so grateful I have had an opportunity to see these artists live.

Pontus, here is another poem along the same vein as the one you posted:

Title: Away
Author: James Whitcomb Riley

"I cannot say, and I will not say
That he is dead--. He is just away!

"With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand
He has wandered into an unknown land,

"And left us dreaming how very fair
It needs must be, since he lingers there.

"And you-- O you, who the wildest yearn
For the old-time step and the glad return--,

"Think of him faring on, as dear
In the love of There as the love of Here;

"And loyal still, as he gave the blows
Of his warrior-strength to his country's foes--.

"Mild and gentle, as he was brave--,
When the sweetest love of his life he gave

"To simple things--: Where the violets grew
Blue as the eyes they were likened to,

"The touches of his hands have strayed
As reverently as his lips have prayed:

"When the little brown thrush that harshly chirred
Was dear to him as the mocking-bird;

"And he pitied as much as a man in pain
A writhing honey-bee wet with rain--.

"Think of him still as the same, I say:
He is not dead-- he is just away!"

[Taigu]

Well,Amelia, it seems we share the same love for Peter Gabriel s work...

Gassho

Taigu

[Amelia]

Well,Amelia, it seems we share the same love for Peter Gabriel s work...

Gassho

Taigu

That's nice to know. Gassho

"...No more miracles, loaves and fishes, been so busy with the
washing of the dishes
Reaction level's much too high - I can do without the stimuli

"I'm living way beyond my ways and means, living in the
zone of the inbetweens..."

[Kyonin]

All we are is dust in the wind, indeed.

Thank you, Taigu.

Gashho,

Kyonin

[Shokai]

I believe Carl Sagan said it was stardust

[Omoi Otoshi]

Thank you Amelia!

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