What We Need Is Here
For: Mar-21-2016
Lo Que Necesitamos Está Aquí
--por Wendell Berry
A lomos de un caballo el domingo por la mañana.
La cosecha ha acabado, saboreamos un caqui
y uvas salvajes, intensas dulces
del final del verano. En el laberinto del tiempo
sobre campos otoñales, nombramos nombres
que descansan en tumbas. Abrimos
una semilla de caqui para encontrar el árbol
que está en promesa,
pálida, en la esencia de la semilla.
Gansos aparecen arriba sobre nosotros,
pasan, y el cielo se cierra. Abandono,
como de enamorado o dormido, los abraza
en su camino, seguro
en la fe antigua: lo que necesitamos
está aquí. Y nosotros rezamos, no
por la nueva tierra o cielo, sino por estar
tranquilos de corazón, y de vista,
seguro. Lo que necesitamos está aquí.
Preguntas semilla para la reflexión: ¿Cómo te relacionas con la sabiduría de que “lo que necesitamos está aquí? ¿Puedes compartir una historia en la que estuvieses en contacto con tu realidad más verdadera a través de lo que está delante tuyo? ¿Cómo desarrollas los ojos para ver la realidad más profunda delante de ti?
El poema "Gansos Salvajes", De Poemas Seleccionados def Wendell Berry.
The poem "Wild Geese", From Selected Poems of Wendell Berry.
SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: How do you relate to the wisdom of "what we need is here?" Can you share a story of a time you came in touch with your truest reality through what was in front of you? How do you develop the eyes to see the deepest reality in front of you?
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On Oct 22, 2023 Helen Francis wrote :
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On Oct 3, 2022 David W wrote :
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On Jun 5, 2022 Carolyn Jackson wrote :
"Wild Geese" is a Mary Oliver poem. Please correct
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On Mar 2, 2021 Karen wrote :
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On Jan 17, 2020 Carol A Tyx wrote :
The poem as printed here as a few errors, words omitted. As a poet myself, I would urge the posters of this blog to take care to print texts as they have been written.
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On Nov 24, 2019 Suzanne wrote :
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On Sep 22, 2019 Michael Burke wrote :
It’s the use of the word abandon that puzzles me. Are the geese abandoning us? Or is abandon Used to express the fleetingness of reality and it all we have is the present moment?
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On Mar 20, 2016 david doane wrote :
Past and future are imagination. Only the present is alive. Living and dying are happening right now, and what I need is here and now. The challenge is to be present, be responsive here and now to myself, to those I am relating to, and to the world I'm in. The only time I've come in touch with my truest reality is through being present to what was in me, in front of me, and around me, sharing and operating out of what I am experiencing. When I've done that in relating to others, the experience is rich. I develop the eyes to see the deepest reality by practicing being present. Spending time with someone who is good at being in the present was of great help to me in developing the eyes to see deeper..
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On Mar 18, 2016 Abhishek wrote :
Being clear in eye
Ah! that is surely worth praying for
Because I have eyes upon eyes upon eyes
Lenses upon lenses
Filters on filters...
In fleeting moments
I'm stripped of them
By a sharp sweet wild grape
And I glimpse raw reality
Uncut by words
Uncoloured by "me"
Each time I tried
To develop those eyes
I loaded with more and more
already-always "seeings"
But in rest and surrender
A rude shock of love comes
Sweeps me off my feet...
And tells me all I need is here