Comments for http://www.kamlakkapur.com/blog Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:43:19 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 Comment on A FRACTION OF A DEGREE SEPARATES THE POSTIVE FROM THE NEGATIVE by Crystal http://www.kamlakkapur.com/blog/2011/03/14/a-fraction-of-a-degree-separates-the-postive-from-the-negative/comment-page-1/#comment-7800 Crystal Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:43:19 +0000 http://www.kamlakkapur.com/blog/?p=120#comment-7800 I love this! So true with loving thoughts and non-loving thoughts... I love it! Peace be with you Crystal I love this! So true with loving thoughts and non-loving thoughts…
I love it!
Peace be with you
Crystal

]]> Comment on Contact by kamla http://www.kamlakkapur.com/blog/contact/comment-page-1/#comment-7493 kamla Sun, 24 Apr 2011 04:31:31 +0000 http://www.kamlakkapur.com/blog/?page_id=35#comment-7493 Hi Jeanine, It's along due to be available on line! Within the month it should be available on Create Space, and I'll let you know when. If i were in the US right now i would have mailed you a copy! Kamla Hi Jeanine, It’s along due to be available on line! Within the month it should be available on Create Space, and I’ll let you know when. If i were in the US right now i would have mailed you a copy! Kamla

]]> Comment on Contact by Jeanine Marie http://www.kamlakkapur.com/blog/contact/comment-page-1/#comment-7486 Jeanine Marie Sat, 23 Apr 2011 02:55:26 +0000 http://www.kamlakkapur.com/blog/?page_id=35#comment-7486 Where can I order As A Fountain in A Garden??? Thank you, Jeanine Where can I order As A Fountain in A Garden???

Thank you,

Jeanine

]]> Comment on A FRACTION OF A DEGREE SEPARATES THE POSTIVE FROM THE NEGATIVE by mario http://www.kamlakkapur.com/blog/2011/03/14/a-fraction-of-a-degree-separates-the-postive-from-the-negative/comment-page-1/#comment-7198 mario Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:05:25 +0000 http://www.kamlakkapur.com/blog/?p=120#comment-7198 Great insight...so true Great insight…so true

]]> Comment on SUFFERING by kamla http://www.kamlakkapur.com/blog/2011/02/28/suffering/comment-page-1/#comment-6682 kamla Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:00:52 +0000 http://www.kamlakkapur.com/blog/?p=108#comment-6682 succinct is right, Mike! You've brought up several wonderful topics, the first being the commonality that runs through all religions: suffering is one of them. It is common because suffering affects all of us without exception. Wealth, fame, youth -- nothing can circumvent it. It is the common ground of our connection. We don't know it because suffering is such a private affair that we feel and fear we alone suffer. But whatever the cause of it -- driving the black Benz not the white -- suffering is suffering. Unfortunately, we don't recognize it is suffering till it gets too intense for us to bear and then in the pulling back from the cause (if we are lucky), transformation can occur. Most of us just keep burning, burning, as the Buddha said. Most of us don't know what it is to suffer CONSCIOUSLY. Once this is done the fire is a healing fire, burning off our dross. I can also understand the bafflement of your daughter -- she is young! She wants! She wants to fit in! She has the wrong role models that she lives by, like most teenagers do (I presume she is a teenager?). Suffering for its own sake is not, and should not, be attractive to anyone but masochists. But in that we all pursue suffering (without knowing it, unconsciously) in pursuing the shallow goals of life, we are all masochists. It all comes down to living an aware, vigilant life. succinct is right, Mike! You’ve brought up several wonderful topics, the first being the commonality that runs through all religions: suffering is one of them. It is common because suffering affects all of us without exception. Wealth, fame, youth — nothing can circumvent it. It is the common ground of our connection. We don’t know it because suffering is such a private affair that we feel and fear we alone suffer. But whatever the cause of it — driving the black Benz not the white — suffering is suffering. Unfortunately, we don’t recognize it is suffering till it gets too intense for us to bear and then in the pulling back from the cause (if we are lucky), transformation can occur. Most of us just keep burning, burning, as the Buddha said. Most of us don’t know what it is to suffer CONSCIOUSLY. Once this is done the fire is a healing fire, burning off our dross.

I can also understand the bafflement of your daughter — she is young! She wants! She wants to fit in! She has the wrong role models that she lives by, like most teenagers do (I presume she is a teenager?). Suffering for its own sake is not, and should not, be attractive to anyone but masochists. But in that we all pursue suffering (without knowing it, unconsciously) in pursuing the shallow goals of life, we are all masochists. It all comes down to living an aware, vigilant life.

]]> Comment on SUFFERING by Mike Parish http://www.kamlakkapur.com/blog/2011/02/28/suffering/comment-page-1/#comment-6635 Mike Parish Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:38:49 +0000 http://www.kamlakkapur.com/blog/?p=108#comment-6635 Suffering... now this is surely a Catholic topic!!! Okay, maybe we don't own suffering like we OWN guilt, having prefected it to the point of having our own exclusive, elete brand: "Catholic guilt":) but "pick up your Cross and follow me" is central to a true Christain life. This is a topic my daughter is completely baffled by, so to put it in referances she can relate to I've prayed and contemplated (much the same thing) long and hard about suffering. Look at Paris Hilton, Linsy Lohan, any of a generation of modern "Princesses/Mean Girls". In the absence of any sense of true suffering, suffering becomes having to drive the black Benz, not the white. With out pain/suffering we have no referrance for our blessings. The world becomes a bland boring place with nothing to offer. So the soul, starving for substance, thrusts the body into a hell of excess, searching for meaning. So yes, embrace your suffering, be thankful for it, for with out night there can be no day. PS: That has to be the most succinct essay I've EVER written!!! Impressive considering the scope of the topic!:) Suffering… now this is surely a Catholic topic!!!

Okay, maybe we don’t own suffering like we OWN guilt, having prefected it to the point of having our own exclusive, elete brand: “Catholic guilt”:) but “pick up your Cross and follow me” is central to a true Christain life.

This is a topic my daughter is completely baffled by, so to put it in referances she can relate to I’ve prayed and contemplated (much the same thing) long and hard about suffering.

Look at Paris Hilton, Linsy Lohan, any of a generation of modern “Princesses/Mean Girls”. In the absence of any sense of true suffering, suffering becomes having to drive the black Benz, not the white. With out pain/suffering we have no referrance for our blessings. The world becomes a bland boring place with nothing to offer. So the soul, starving for substance, thrusts the body into a hell of excess, searching for meaning.

So yes, embrace your suffering, be thankful for it, for with out night there can be no day.

PS: That has to be the most succinct essay I’ve EVER written!!! Impressive considering the scope of the topic!:)

]]> Comment on Gender Quake by kamla http://www.kamlakkapur.com/blog/2010/03/12/gender-quake/comment-page-1/#comment-6528 kamla Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:37:31 +0000 http://www.kamlakkapur.com/blog/2010/03/12/gender-quake/#comment-6528 Mike, you are absolutely right about the function of saints in our lives. There is a wonderful story in my Rumi book about this called HOP UP ON MY HUMP. it will be my next post. just a few more ramblings in response to yours -- I think rambling is the best way to think, by the way! --. The Sikh gurus tell us that the only way to cross the tumultuous ocean of life is to hang on to the coat tails of the saints. You get across this way. As for the whole gender thing: I have had an illumination. English, that is crippled without the use of pronouns, is to blame! English sets up the male female dichotomy more than any other language I know (and i don't know many!). I was reading the English translations of Gurbani (the Sikh sacred texts) instead of the originals! In just one of the translations (from the same hymn from which comes the metaphor of swimming across on the coat tails of saints), is this line: Saajan bandh sumatar so har naam hirday dayay. it has been translated as He (God) is a companion, a relative, and a good friend of mine, who implants the lord's name within my heart. In truth, there are no pronouns in this line: no He or mine or my or who: translated directly it goes something like this, Beloved, Friend, relative giving Name to heart. Our gurus have always called God mother father God. Since this insight about how a language can corrupt communication I have had no conflict about God's gender. Mike, you are absolutely right about the function of saints in our lives. There is a wonderful story in my Rumi book about this called HOP UP ON MY HUMP. it will be my next post. just a few more ramblings in response to yours — I think rambling is the best way to think, by the way! –. The Sikh gurus tell us that the only way to cross the tumultuous ocean of life is to hang on to the coat tails of the saints. You get across this way.

As for the whole gender thing: I have had an illumination. English, that is crippled without the use of pronouns, is to blame! English sets up the male female dichotomy more than any other language I know (and i don’t know many!). I was reading the English translations of Gurbani (the Sikh sacred texts) instead of the originals! In just one of the translations (from the same hymn from which comes the metaphor of swimming across on the coat tails of saints), is this line: Saajan bandh sumatar so har naam hirday dayay. it has been translated as He (God) is a companion, a relative, and a good friend of mine, who implants the lord’s name within my heart. In truth, there are no pronouns in this line: no He or mine or my or who: translated directly it goes something like this, Beloved, Friend, relative giving Name to heart.
Our gurus have always called God mother father God.
Since this insight about how a language can corrupt communication I have had no conflict about God’s gender.

]]> Comment on Gender Quake by Mike Parish http://www.kamlakkapur.com/blog/2010/03/12/gender-quake/comment-page-1/#comment-6445 Mike Parish Wed, 23 Feb 2011 01:15:32 +0000 http://www.kamlakkapur.com/blog/2010/03/12/gender-quake/#comment-6445 Dear Kamla, I feel something like a small child pointing out an obvious answer to an adult who most likely will smile and inwardly, laugh at the obsurd simplicity of the child's observation, but here goes. From your writings I see that you understand, perhaps in a slightly different way from my Catholic understanding, the concept of Saints. Saints are humans who lived exemplary lives and who we are certain are beloved of God and are now with Him in Paradise. It is not always easy to feel connected to The Almighty, All Knowing, Omnipotent (male) God when one is a sinner struggling in the muck an mier of this moral life. But one can always find a Saint who, in their journy through this world, suffered the same or worse struggles than you. Many of us feel very strongly connected to Mary, the Imaculate Tabernacle which bore the Incarnate God, come to save the world. Mary was, first and formost, woman. Faithful and couragious she responded to her God with a world changing YES and she became a Mother. She knew all the sorrows and joys of this life, including the death of her beloved Son. So just as I might come to you, or my wife, or my pastor to share life's struggles and questions, the Saint's are available to us. No longer encombered by this world's struggles, they see more clearly, pray to God more devoutly, understand us more wisely. So, to finally arrive at some kind of a point to my ramblings... the next time you feel the need to connect with femine, look to the Saints. They are waiting to pray for you and help you find your path to join them in Paradise. Hope this helps... God bless, Mike PS: Dude, it's the 21st century, can't we get a spell check on this blog?!?!? Dear Kamla,
I feel something like a small child pointing out an obvious answer to an adult who most likely will smile and inwardly, laugh at the obsurd simplicity of the child’s observation, but here goes.
From your writings I see that you understand, perhaps in a slightly different way from my Catholic understanding, the concept of Saints.
Saints are humans who lived exemplary lives and who we are certain are beloved of God and are now with Him in Paradise. It is not always easy to feel connected to The Almighty, All Knowing, Omnipotent (male) God when one is a sinner struggling in the muck an mier of this moral life. But one can always find a Saint who, in their journy through this world, suffered the same or worse struggles than you. Many of us feel very strongly connected to Mary, the Imaculate Tabernacle which bore the Incarnate God, come to save the world. Mary was, first and formost, woman. Faithful and couragious she responded to her God with a world changing YES and she became a Mother. She knew all the sorrows and joys of this life, including the death of her beloved Son.
So just as I might come to you, or my wife, or my pastor to share life’s struggles and questions, the Saint’s are available to us. No longer encombered by this world’s struggles, they see more clearly, pray to God more devoutly, understand us more wisely.
So, to finally arrive at some kind of a point to my ramblings… the next time you feel the need to connect with femine, look to the Saints. They are waiting to pray for you and help you find your path to join them in Paradise.

Hope this helps… God bless,
Mike

PS: Dude, it’s the 21st century, can’t we get a spell check on this blog?!?!?

]]> Comment on MIND IN THE BODY, GOD IN THE MIND by kamla http://www.kamlakkapur.com/blog/2011/02/18/mind-in-the-body-god-in-the-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-6401 kamla Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:11:46 +0000 http://www.kamlakkapur.com/blog/?p=105#comment-6401 thanks for the encouragement! we all need it! thanks for the encouragement! we all need it!

]]> Comment on MIND IN THE BODY, GOD IN THE MIND by Dr. Nadi Palshikar http://www.kamlakkapur.com/blog/2011/02/18/mind-in-the-body-god-in-the-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-6385 Dr. Nadi Palshikar Mon, 21 Feb 2011 05:21:54 +0000 http://www.kamlakkapur.com/blog/?p=105#comment-6385 All the very best for your book on Guru Nanak. Please write here sometimes. It is a pleasure to read your writing. All the very best for your book on Guru Nanak.
Please write here sometimes.
It is a pleasure to read your writing.

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