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Recieved: 2001/08/10 20:24
Subject: [K-list] Re: desire was the most exquisite sort of ordinariness
From: Nina

David, most honorable ulterior motivator, desirer, if you will...

This I can see... the tracing back to some self the desire hidden
within selfless acts.

Curious to sit this view of desire next to, say, conception...
the "spark" moment... where is the desire in relation to self in that
moment?

Where is desire in relation self in relation to natural law?

Where is desire in relation to self in relation to Kunitz' crickets,
longing for the dance? (Thanks, btw, HBarrett for sharing that!)

contemplations,
Nina
(anterior motivator)

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HBarrett submitted:

Lovely. You remind me of one of my favorite poets, Stanley Kunitz:

  Outdoors all afternoon
  under a gunmetal sky
  staking my garden down,
  I kneeled to the crickets trilling
  underfoot as if about
  to burst from their crusty shells;
  and like a child again
  marveled to hear so clear
  and brave a music pour
  from such a small machine.
  What makes the engine go?
  Desire, desire, desire.
  The longing for the dance
  stirs in the buried life.

 -- from "Touch Me," Collected Poems

--- In Kundalini-GatewayATnospamy..., David Bozzi <david.bozziATnospamn...> wrote:
> Nina wrote:
> > Even when one doesn't think one desires... could it be that desire
> > exists?
> >
> > If it weren't for desire, would we not simply cease?

> In even the most seemingly 'selfless' acts
> there is always a desire
> that can be traced back to some self.
> David
> [ulterior motivater]

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