Saturday, September 10, 2016

Hay-Ku of the Day (The "Man of Sorrows")

A Divine Mind would
Be perfectly sensitive
To all vibrant states.

Still Awareness would
Be fully conscious of It's
Self-suffering states.

A "Man" subject to
"God Consciousness" could be called:
A "Man of Sorrows."

(1) 109. "Man of Sorrow"s: An open heart implies a heightened sensitivity to ones enviornment. It also implies a heightened awareness of the pain and suffering of others. Unfortunately, our natural response to this heightened awareness is a reflex emotional contraction of the heart. We retreat from the pain by closing mental ranks and excluding others as its source; by building mental walls to reduce the amount of suffering we have to share to emotionally managable levels. In building these mental walls, however, we sacrifice feeling, senstivity, awareness, consciousness and, ultimately, life. We become, quite literally, numb and dumb. We don't hurt so much because we have become mentally and emotionally enethized, but at the price of being less conscious and alive. U/D 3/31/96

(2) "Man of Sorrows is paramount among the prefigurations of the Messiah identified by Christians in the passages of Isaiah 53 (Servant songs) in the Hebrew Bible" - Wikapedia

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