Comments on: A finger pointing http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/06/a-finger-pointing/ Your house shall not be an anchor but a mast - Khalil Gibran Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:58:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tess http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/06/a-finger-pointing/comment-page-1/#comment-719 Tess Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:00:41 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/06/a-finger-pointing/#comment-719 Susan, thanks so much for visiting and for your comment. Yes I'd be interested in more information and will email you separately. Susan, thanks so much for visiting and for your comment. Yes I’d be interested in more information and will email you separately.

]]> By: Susan Windley-Daoust http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/06/a-finger-pointing/comment-page-1/#comment-717 Susan Windley-Daoust Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:16:11 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/06/a-finger-pointing/#comment-717 Wow, what a neat reflection! I like this publishing online just to get contentful reflections like this. Tess, I really appreciate Thich Nhat Hahn as well. He isn't saying exactly the same thing, but the overlapping space is extensive. I did actually publish a more academic article on TNH and Christian nonviolent responses to injustice last year. It's not nearly as readable, but I can give you more information if you really want it. Thanks for the kind words-- SWD Wow, what a neat reflection! I like this publishing online just to get contentful reflections like this.

Tess, I really appreciate Thich Nhat Hahn as well. He isn’t saying exactly the same thing, but the overlapping space is extensive. I did actually publish a more academic article on TNH and Christian nonviolent responses to injustice last year. It’s not nearly as readable, but I can give you more information if you really want it.

Thanks for the kind words–
SWD

]]> By: Tess http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/06/a-finger-pointing/comment-page-1/#comment-628 Tess Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:48:52 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/06/a-finger-pointing/#comment-628 Jules, thanks for the recommendation, I'll have to look out for this book. Lucy, I'll let you know how it goes... Elaine, excellent - 30 is a nice round number after all! Jules, thanks for the recommendation, I’ll have to look out for this book.
Lucy, I’ll let you know how it goes…
Elaine, excellent – 30 is a nice round number after all!

]]> By: Elaine http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/06/a-finger-pointing/comment-page-1/#comment-627 Elaine Sun, 07 Oct 2007 02:53:00 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/06/a-finger-pointing/#comment-627 Lucy, this is a wonderful comment and not too long at all. I've been reluctant to add another blog subscription to my Google Reader because I'm having trouble keeping up with the 29 subscriptions already on it, but guess whose passionate blog has become #30. Lucy, this is a wonderful comment and not too long at all. I’ve been reluctant to add another blog subscription to my Google Reader because I’m having trouble keeping up with the 29 subscriptions already on it, but guess whose passionate blog has become #30.

]]> By: lucy http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/06/a-finger-pointing/comment-page-1/#comment-626 lucy Sun, 07 Oct 2007 01:44:15 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/06/a-finger-pointing/#comment-626 great image of the moon! and if you must save your dishes, try this...take a bed pillow, hold it by two corners of the case behind your back. while sitting upright on your knees, heave the pillow forward over your head and let it slam into the floor. do this a few times...until exhausted perhaps?...and i predict the laughter will follow. great image of the moon! and if you must save your dishes, try this…take a bed pillow, hold it by two corners of the case behind your back. while sitting upright on your knees, heave the pillow forward over your head and let it slam into the floor. do this a few times…until exhausted perhaps?…and i predict the laughter will follow.

]]> By: HeyJules http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/06/a-finger-pointing/comment-page-1/#comment-625 HeyJules Sun, 07 Oct 2007 01:37:17 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/06/a-finger-pointing/#comment-625 Tess, have you ever read Pema Chadron's "Start Where You are?" book on Compassion? It was instrumental in helping me put a lot of my anger and frustration aside and replace it with compassion. It reminds me very much of the book you are describing here. Tess, have you ever read Pema Chadron’s “Start Where You are?” book on Compassion? It was instrumental in helping me put a lot of my anger and frustration aside and replace it with compassion. It reminds me very much of the book you are describing here.

]]> By: Tess http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/06/a-finger-pointing/comment-page-1/#comment-624 Tess Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:55:21 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/06/a-finger-pointing/#comment-624 Lucy, thank you for that long reply and your usual unerring aim. It feels to me as if you're absolutely right that sorrow and anger are linked. I really must read more of Kahlil Gibran - despite the fact that the title of this blog is based on some of his words, I'm not that familiar with his writing. Yes, sorrow and joy are inseparable. Perhaps because we are (I am) in some sense always looking to the future, waiting for the pendulum to swing the other way, not often able to fully BE in the present. An image that just came to me is knowing that the dark and the full of the moon are all part of one whole. I'm not sure I believe anger is wrong, but it can lead nowhere pretty fast. Maybe I'll go find a pillow. But I'm rather regretting the plate-throwing comment - I like my plates!! Lucy, thank you for that long reply and your usual unerring aim. It feels to me as if you’re absolutely right that sorrow and anger are linked. I really must read more of Kahlil Gibran – despite the fact that the title of this blog is based on some of his words, I’m not that familiar with his writing.

Yes, sorrow and joy are inseparable. Perhaps because we are (I am) in some sense always looking to the future, waiting for the pendulum to swing the other way, not often able to fully BE in the present.

An image that just came to me is knowing that the dark and the full of the moon are all part of one whole.

I’m not sure I believe anger is wrong, but it can lead nowhere pretty fast. Maybe I’ll go find a pillow. But I’m rather regretting the plate-throwing comment – I like my plates!!

]]> By: lucy http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/06/a-finger-pointing/comment-page-1/#comment-623 lucy Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:02:31 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/06/a-finger-pointing/#comment-623 this feels like a really important topic. i keep returning to the image of you throwing plates. somehow, that feels like such a great release of the emotion of anger in a "healthy" way rather than watching it pop out sideways at a stranger or loved one. part of the work i do actually focuses on people experiencing their anger and sorrow in a safe environment. the premise is that to the extent you feel and experience your anger and LET IT GO, to the same degree you will experience joy. it's pendulum theory. i know for some it is a stretch to consider sorrow and anger together, but i believe they are closely related. kahlil gibran says, "when you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. some of you say, "joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "nay, sorrow is greater." but i say unto you, they are inseparable." is it possible that your anger is a form of sorrow for that joy which you desire for the world and for yourself? can you release some of the feelings that anger is "wrong" and go throw some plates or pound a mattress? :-) that's a rather long reply, isn't it? as i said, it feels really important! blessings to you. this feels like a really important topic. i keep returning to the image of you throwing plates. somehow, that feels like such a great release of the emotion of anger in a “healthy” way rather than watching it pop out sideways at a stranger or loved one.

part of the work i do actually focuses on people experiencing their anger and sorrow in a safe environment. the premise is that to the extent you feel and experience your anger and LET IT GO, to the same degree you will experience joy. it’s pendulum theory.

i know for some it is a stretch to consider sorrow and anger together, but i believe they are closely related. kahlil gibran says,

“when you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

some of you say, “joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “nay, sorrow is greater.”

but i say unto you, they are inseparable.”

is it possible that your anger is a form of sorrow for that joy which you desire for the world and for yourself? can you release some of the feelings that anger is “wrong” and go throw some plates or pound a mattress? :-)

that’s a rather long reply, isn’t it? as i said, it feels really important!

blessings to you.

]]> By: Emptying my pockets « Closely Observed http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/06/a-finger-pointing/comment-page-1/#comment-622 Emptying my pockets « Closely Observed Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:22:18 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/2007/10/06/a-finger-pointing/#comment-622 [...] between admiration and imitation. Thank you, NWC for the reading recommendation, and also, Tess, for adding and your and Thich Nhat Hanh’s thoughts on cooling the flames of anger by [...] [...] between admiration and imitation. Thank you, NWC for the reading recommendation, and also, Tess, for adding and your and Thich Nhat Hanh’s thoughts on cooling the flames of anger by [...]

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