Thứ Ba, 6 tháng 3, 2012

THÍCH NHẤT HẠNH / PRAYERS FOR PEACE / Don Luce introduced ..

We promise one another /  poems from an Asian war /
Don Luce introduced... 


                            T h í c h    N h ấ t   H ạ n h 
                          p r a y e r s     f o r   p e a c e 

                              Remember , brother /  remember / Man is not our enemy .
                                                        ( THÍCH NHẤT HẠNH )

                Thích Nhất  Hạnh  is a Buddhist  monk who has made several trips
                       to the United States and Europe to help Westerneres better understand
                       Buddhism and the cultural and historical background to the present conflict
                       in his country .  He is also  a scholar and poet .  Thích Nhất Hạnh is one
                       of the spritual leaders of what some people call the Third Force in Việtnam ,
                       a  loose coliation of religious  leaders ,  students ,  and Vietnamese from all
                       walks of life ,  striving to create a Việtnam  free of both Communist and
                       American domination .
                             (  DON LUCE  ' s note  )


                                             N  I  G  H  T     O F    P  R A Y  E  R 

                        In that Moment
                        wind  was still
                        birds silent
                        seven times Earth shook
                        as Immortality traversed
                        the stream of Birth-and-Death
                        The  Hand on the  wheel
                        in the mudra of Peace
                        bloomed like a flower in the night .

                        That Moment
                         the flower of Immortality opened
                        in the garden of Birth-and-Death
                        the Enlightened smile :
                        word and symbol
                        He came
                        to learn Man' s language .

                         That night in Tusita Heaven
                         doves looked down
                         saw Earth ,  my homeland,  brighter than a star .
                         While galaxies inclined ,  worshipping
                         till East turned rose
                         and the Lumbini gardens became a soft cradle
                         welcoming Buddha ,  newly born .

                         To nighy ,  tonight
                         on Earth ,  my homeland  ,
                         men look up
                         their tear-blind eyes turn toward Tusita Heaven .
                         The screams ,  the cries of pain are eveywhere ,
                          As Mara ' s hand bears down :
                          Violence ,  Hate .

                          In darkness  Earth ,  my homeland thirsts ,
                          yearns for the miraculous event
                          when Eternity parts its curtains
                          shadows dissolve
                          and the  Long Hoa * comes to my land 
                          when the Sound of being echoes again
                          in the singing of a child .

                          Tonight ,   the moon ,  the stars ,  bear witness :
                           let my homeland ,  let Earth pray .
                           for Việtnam
                           Her deaths and fires
                           grief and blood --
                           that Việtnam will rise  and from her sufferings
                           become that new soft cradle
                            for the Buddha-to-Come .
                           Let Earth ,  my country , pray
                           Once more the flower blooms .

                            Tonight we hope
                            our agony bears fruit
                            that Birth-and-Death will cross
                            the stream of being
                            and Love' s spring bathe  ten thousand hearts ,
                            that Man  will learn the language of the Inexpressible
                            the prattle of a child
                            will teach the law .

                       ------
                       *   The Buddhist Messiah . \
                                       ( Don Luce 's note ).


                                             R E C O M M E N D A T I O N S


                             Promise  me this day ,
                             promise me now
                             while the sun is overhead
                             exactly at the zenith ,
                             promise me  .

                             Even as they strike you down
                             with a mountain  of hate and violence ,
                             even as they
                             step on your life and crush it
                             like a worm ,
                             even as they dismember , disembowel you ,
                             remember , brother ,
                             man is  not our enenmy .

                             Just your pity ,
                             just your hate
                            are invincible ,  limitless , unconditional .
                            Hatred will never let your face
                             the beast in man  .

                              And one day
                              when you face this beast alone ,
                              your courage intact ,  your  eyes kind ,
                               untroubled
                              ( even as no one sees them ) ,
                              out of your smile
                              will bloom a flower
                              and those who love you
                               will behold  you
                              across ten thousan worlds of birth and dying  .


                              Alone again
                              I ' ll go on with head bent
                               but knowing the immortality of love .
                              And on the long ,  rough road
                              both sun and moon will shine ,
                              lightening  my  steps  .
                              []

                             THÍCH NHẤT HẠNH .

                             ( from  WE PROMISE ONE ANOTHER, poems from an Asian war  -
                                        selected,  translated  by     DON LUCE ,    JOHN   C. SCHAFER
                                       and   JACQUELYN CHAGNON  - Published   by The Indochina
                                      Education Mobile Project  ,  Washington,   D.C, 197  - p  114 -  119 ) .

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