Monday, 7 March 2011

Raw (for Sunday Scribblings)

Raw
Uncooked, unrefined
In their natural state

Our emotions
Are nothing more
Than energy moving

It is us
Who shape and define them
Attach a story

And then we complain
About what they
Do to us

This poem was inspired by a quote from Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche: “Fundamentally emotions don’t bother us, we bother them.”

3 comments:

  1. A curious and intriguing hypothesis. However on reflection so true! Glad I visited.

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  2. Food for thought there. I try and control my own emotions by using my life's 'yardstick' - commonsense.

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  3. Definately food for thought!

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