tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post1921622956099493010..comments2024-03-28T14:53:38.827-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: This *Revised New Syllabus* Is Nothing New, but Old as Sickness of the Spirit - Not a Revision of Anything but a Repudiation of All That's Wholesome and RedeemingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-92159488367064523102015-05-27T11:19:59.134-04:002015-05-27T11:19:59.134-04:00speaking of classic writing from the 1960s, there&...speaking of classic writing from the 1960s, there's this:<br /><br /><b>The Gestalt Prayer</b> by Fritz Perls<br /><br />I do my thing and you do your thing.<br />I am not in this world to live up to your expectations,<br />And you are not in this world to live up to mine.<br />You are you, and I am I,<br />and if by chance we find each other, it’s beautiful.<br />If not, it can’t be helped.<br /><br /><i>in 1980, a college newspaper in new york state published the following, attributed to 'broadway dave' :</i><br /><br /><b>Gestalt Prayer- Revised Version<br /></b><br />I am I, and you are you.<br />You do your thing, and I do my thing.<br />I am not in this world to live up to your expectations,<br />And you are not in this world to live up to mine.<br />If by chance we find each other sexy and available,<br />It’s fun to fool around.<br />And if you then spend the night with someone else<br />And I’m intensely lonely and jealous<br />I can’t complain.<br />I agreed to this.<br />I’m equally free.<br />I only wish I were as bold and charming as you<br />And had already found somebody else to screw. <br /><br /><br /><i>decades later, the same author produced a nontheistic version of the christian 'prayer of st. francis', and claimed to be </i>"struck by how much it parallels the Tibetan Buddhist practice of <b>tonglen</b>"<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />My goal is to be an instrument of peace.<br />Where there is hatred, let me sow love;<br />Where there is injury, pardon;<br />Where there is doubt, faith;<br />Where there is despair, hope;<br />Where there is darkness, light;<br />Where there is sadness, joy.<br /><br />I seek not so much to be consoled, as to console;<br />to be understood, as to understand;<br />to be loved, as to love.<br /><br />For it is in giving that we receive,<br />It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,<br />and it is in letting go of a smaller self that we are able to recognize our wider identity.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b></b>mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.com