Being Human
Să fii om--de Climbing PoeTree
Mă întreb
dacă Soarele dezbate cu întunericul
în diminețile
când nu dorește să se ridice pe cer
din sălașul său
aflat sub orizontul pufos
dacă cerul ostenește
să fie peste tot în același timp
căutând să se adapteze
capriciilor vremii
dacă norii călători
încercând să fie laolaltă
stau la tocmeală cu gravitația
ca să mai adaste o clipă în plus pe cer
mă întreb dacă ploaia se teme
de cădere
dacă-i este dificil să se lase în voie
dacă fulgii de nea se satură
să fie perfecți tot timpul
fiecare
căutând să fie unic
mă întreb dacă aștrii pun vreo dorință la stele
înainte de a se stinge
și dacă au nevoie sa învețe tinerele stele
cum să strălucească
mă întreb dacă umbrele tânjesc
măcar o data după atingerea Soarelui
dacă se pierd în rătăcire
neștiind de unde vin
mă întreb dacă răsăritul
și apusul
se respectă reciproc
chiar dacă nu s-au întâlnit vreodată
dacă vulcanii obosesc
dacă furtunile au regrete
dacă compostul crede în viața
de după moarte
mă întreb dacă respirația se gândește vreodată la suicid
dacă vântul își dorește vreodată
să stea locului
și să observe lumea în trecerea sa
dacă fumul ia ființă
știind cum să se ridice
dacă curcubeul are trac în spatele scenei
încurcat de alegerea culorilor potrivite
mă întreb dacă fulgerul își potrivește alarma
pentru a ști când să trăznească
dacă râurile își opresc vreodată curgerea la vale
pentru a o coti înspre amonte
dacă pârâurile se unesc cu marea nepotrivită
și drept urmare întreaga lor viață e întoarsă pe dos
mă întreb dacă zăpada
își dorește să fie neagră
dacă solul crede că este prea întunecat
dacă fluturii doresc să-și acopere urmele
dacă stâncile sunt conștiente de greutatea lor
dacă munții sunt nesiguri de propria lor forță
mă întreb dacă valurile se descurajează
când eșuează pe mal
doar pentru a fi trase înapoi
de unde au pornit
dacă pământul se simte călcat în picioare
dacă nisipul se simte lipsit de valoare
dacă pomii simt nevoia să-și ia la rost iubiții
pentru că nu-și cunosc locul
dacă ramurile freamătă la răspântii
nesigure încotro să crească
dacă frunzele ar înțelege că sunt trecătoare
oare ar mai dansa în bătaia vântului?
mă întreb
încotro se duce Luna
când nu se arată
aș vrea să o găsesc atunci
și să privesc de la distanță
cum oceanul se rotește
să o ascult
cum se rotește în somn
și cum strădania face loc existenței.
Întrebări pentru reflecție: Ce înseamnă pentru voi să fii uman? Ați putea împărtăși o experiența când natura exterioară v-a ajutat să vă conectați cu natura interioară? Ce vă ajută să vă înțelegeți propria natură?
From their performance at Bioneers, also could be found at their website under Being Human.
SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: What does it mean to you to be human? Can you share a personal story of a time nature outside helped you connect with your own nature? What helps you understand your own nature?
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17 Past Reflections
On Jun 8, 2020 Ezra wrote :
This was so beautiful and perfectly timed with things that I question myself. It's nice to feel human and still relate to nature. It makes me feel a whole lot less lonely.
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On Feb 14, 2020 Dibay wrote :
For me being human is savoring all the feelings that arise inside me. It's being aware of my feelings and where they are rooted in my beliefs and how I learned these. It's both joy and sadness, laughter and tears, connection and solitude. Nature teaches me... trees that continue to stand tall under the hard sun and pressing furious rain, flowers that bloom no matter what the weather is, winds that blow strong but pass on... just like my feelings. Nature teaches me about interconnectedness - that while I enjoy my solitude, I know I am always connected to a world of people and Higher Source.
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On Feb 12, 2020 Manisha wrote :
In this universe only we as human got gift of expression. We can feel and express all kind of feelings, we can learn from mistakes, we can get up every morning until we are not dead and say thank you to god for being alive, being human. We can have a wisdom to make next moment better, we can have a wisdom to do anything, we can feel pain for other person or for a snail. These small-2 things can make us human.
When we were kid , my granny used to say "Being born as Human is result of so many great deeds". That time it was hard to understand but now I know why she said that. So I am trying to make my each day count. Small act of kindness is helping me to be human. I just wish not to stop that.
Thank you every one to believe in each other.
When we were kid , my granny used to say "Being born as Human is result of so many great deeds". That time it was hard to understand but now I know why she said that. So I am trying to make my each day count. Small act of kindness is helping me to be human. I just wish not to stop that.
Thank you every one to believe in each other.
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On Feb 11, 2020 barb wrote :
being human is learning to live with contradiction: living with silence AND noise, light AND dark, winter AND summer, happiness AND grief, peace AND chaos, rich and poor, health and disease, loved and hated. Nature is the perfect place to help us understandthese contradictions and give us the breathing room to figure out our interconnectedness with them. Unless she doesn't give us time.
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On Feb 11, 2020 Vonda wrote :
To be human is to experience the grace of being alive.
Wild, Gusty Grace
by Vonda Drees
It became my fall routine –
a daily slip and slide
down the river’s high bank.
My trust and gratitude grew for Dogwood and Alder,
whose branches I learned to grasp
to steady my descent.
And then one day when the river was particularly low,
I sat for just a bit longer on the warm, smooth stones of the shore.
In the distant green hills,
a gust of wind created a shiver among the trees.
As it approached, it skimmed over the shallow water.
Before I knew what was happening,
the shiver came through me, too,
raising the hairs on my arms and sending tingles through my body.
Memories are like that:
rhythmic dilations of consciousness
pulsing through us in unguarded moments –
unguarded moments.
This wild grace --
such a shift in power,
such a surrendering
from within,
such a stir on our skin.... [View Full Comment]
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On Feb 11, 2020 marc wrote :
some weeks ago i was meditating on a energy spot, at a time i felt empty and wanted to shift to a mantrato fill the space, but i hesitated and said to me, "just wait" and suddenly i felt through my feet and limbs and my whole body connected to the soil and the world I felt trulyalive and human and often reflect about the spark of that moment.
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On Feb 11, 2020 Rajnikant Patel wrote :
Being Human means not to hurt any living being by mind, speech and body to the slightest extent and let my mind, body, and speech be used to oblige others.
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On Feb 11, 2020 Jody Ferris wrote :
Being human is realizing that each and everyone of us were all born equally deserving of a full life that is only surmounted by the deeds we sll do together to make this world a better place to live and coexist with all that there is. We live to fulfill our inner being with the rays of our heavenly father so that we may too some day be the light that gives life.
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On Feb 11, 2020 Pisha wrote :
To me being human is being my trueself / natural self. The self that feels normal and right within. Multiple things in nature helps me connect and reminds me to be my trueself.
Water - natural quality is calm and it always come back to that. My natural quality is peace and love and that's what feels right within. Other qualities like anger, ego don't feel right, natural or normal.
Sunlight - it shines the same to everyone. No judgement. I shouldn't give up my values or character traits because of other's behavior or circumstances.
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Waves - there will be ups and downs but eventually it settles down. Nothing is permanent - good or bad.
Water - natural quality is calm and it always come back to that. My natural quality is peace and love and that's what feels right within. Other qualities like anger, ego don't feel right, natural or normal.
Sunlight - it shines the same to everyone. No judgement. I shouldn't give up my values or character traits because of other's behavior or circumstances.
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Waves - there will be ups and downs but eventually it settles down. Nothing is permanent - good or bad.
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On Feb 11, 2020 Renu Singh wrote :
Why is there pressure to be better and better - why can't I just BE
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On Feb 9, 2020 vinod wrote :
to be human is to just "be".
as we are. where we are.
for everything in nature is perfect.
as it is.
as we are. where we are.
for everything in nature is perfect.
as it is.
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On Feb 7, 2020 David Doane wrote :
To be human is to be an expression of God in a particular form with a particular consciousness, in the world and interrelated with all the rest of creation. As I became more aware of nature outside, that is, nature different than me, I became aware that every form of nature is a unique expression of One Source, which awareness helps me appreciate and connect with my own nature. I don't know what is meant by understanding my own nature. Being human I have the ability to analyze, but I prefer to be human rather than analyze what it means to be human. I do understand it in the sense of standing under it being supportive of it. I find that being mindful, being in the present and paying attention to what I am experiencing, help me to value and enjoy my nature.
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On Feb 7, 2020 Jagdish P Dave wrote :
To me Human without Being is like the Sun without Light, Stillness without Movement, Silence without Sound, Up without Down, Beginning without Ending. They are intertwined. There is beautiful Sanskrit word , Sahaja, which means Natural, Effortless. Nature follows hernatural rhythm. Body goes through its four natural cycles-birth, growth, decline and death. The challenge for me is to live as a Human Being maintaining connection between Human and Being. Human without Being is incomplete, self-centered, egotistic and narcissistic.
When I take a mindful walk in nature I feel naturally connected with external nature- the vastness of the sky, the touch of the wind, the fragrance of flowers, the chirping of birds, the sound of silence. I feel such effortless connection between my inner nature and outer nature when I meditate and when I get absorbed in chanting or listening to chanting. I feel at home.
I always take time out to be with me and be fully present with me. I take a mindful walk, ... [View Full Comment]