For millenia, humans
waited for god to show up
Now we are furthest
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from belief – closest
to meeting god in person:
Unwelcome stranger –
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Forever mortals
on earth forget our fate is
Eternal promise
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Eternal waiting
for the life that has no end
Mortals forever
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Unwelcome strangers
to their own lives and planet:
Strange and unwelcome
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Until they embrace
the passing of all that flows
and streams us is all.
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Haiku and picture by Freddie Omm
(Loosely translated from an original Meditation by
Philipe de Saint Maurice)
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The photo was taken at Scheveningen on a windy afternoon last month when the sand was seething along the beach in noisy funnelflows.
I cannot envisage how the beliefs underpinning these haiku can be reconciled with orthodox Christian doctrine.
Philippe de Saint Maurice is far from being an orthodox Christian, indeed he is not really a Christian of any denomination.
– “embrace
the passing of all that flows
and streams us is all.”
The embrace of the moment, in all its ephemerality, in its Flow and in its passing, is perfectly expressed and so important to any chance of sanity in our fast-moving world!