In Japan I saw very old trees. In the USA trees are not always valued for their "inner spirit" nor the joy they give others. One tree I saw in Takayama was 800+ years old. Americans cannot fathom that.
Not only do you summarize one of Chaplin's movies - City Lights (and I do believe the flower girl was blind) - but you manage to weave in Chaplin's life story and why 'The Tramp' was created in the first place.
He came from nothing and became such an icon, all while showing the world that you did not have to lose your humanity in the process.
Thanks for joining me in celebrating Charlie Chaplin's 136th birthday with your tribute!
Yes, I agree. Fascist/autocratic/theocratic states in Russia and the USA will force Europe and Canada into a partnership that may benefit the world. May they be the light going forward.
Very well said, Sue. I agree with life is satisfying once we stop focusing on other's happiness and instead of focusing on ourselves. It was a difficult lesson but one that changed my life.
When transcending nature’s delights, which are fleeting, man tastes of the delicious flavour of his true Being (Svabhaver rasa), of Supreme Delight (Param rasa), then the excruciating anguish of the poison of mere worldly enjoyment is destroyed.
Beyond bodily pleasures, such as eating, sleeping, moving, about and so on, lies Joy Supreme. Don’t you recite,‘Brahmanandam Paramasukhadam,’ ‘Absolute Bliss, Supreme Happiness.’ HE is Happiness Itself, Happiness is His very essence. Earthly happiness has its opposite – sorrow. But where happiness is in its essential form (Ananda Swarupa), unconditioned, there the opposites – joy and misery – find no place; where solely Sva Rasa is, there can be no question of a-rasa, (of the sense of dryness, of emptyness, of the anguish of God’s absence). He is the Fountain of Joy – Joy and Joy alone is His being. A state exists in which there is only Bliss, Beatitude, Supreme Felicity. At your level, joy has its opposite; you speak of the joys of heaven and of the torments of hell. But where Eternal Bliss is, bliss in its own right cannot be expressed, it is entirely beyond words. THERE – what is? What is not? To speak means to float on the surface; what language can express that which is neither floating nor diving deep?
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