How often do you listen to the romantic lyrics of love songs or poems and hear them directed at a lover? How does it change them to listen to them directed towards your divine essence or the Tao itself?
Share some songs and poems here so we can all be inspired.
I feel like I’d be a poor student of pop culture if I didn’t point out that historically, acts which have written romantic sentiments that could be easily interpreted as directed towards either individuals or simply the transcendent, entirely, are despised (ex: Creed). I suspect that because the Transcendent and it’s processes of manifestation in the world amount for the construction of the individuated identity, and because this is the great task of individuals in life, that its tasteless/anti-social to ruminate to deeply on the Transcendent directly, rather than the fruits of its creation.
Through a transcendental lens, “Your Song” by Elton John is hilarious…
"If I was a sculptor, heh, but then again, no
Or a man who makes potions in a traveling show
I know it’s not much, but it’s the best I can do
My gift is my song, and this one’s for you
And you can tell everybody this is your song
It may be quite simple, but now that it’s done
I hope you don’t mind, I hope you don’t mind that I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you’re in the world
If I was a sculptor, heh, but then again, no
Or a man who makes potions in a traveling show
I know it’s not much, but it’s the best I can do
My gift is my song, and this one’s for you
And you can tell everybody this is your song
It may be quite simple, but now that it’s done
I hope you don’t mind, I hope you don’t mind that I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you’re in the world"
My deep favourite is Beloved HAFIZ
Of course you do not do this out loud, otherwise
someone would call the cops.
Still, though, think about this, this great pull in us to connect.
Why not become the one who lives with a
full moon in each eye that is
always saying,
with that sweet moon language,
what every other eye in
this world is
dying to
hear?”
from Love Poems from God. Published by Penguin Compass. Copyright © 2002 by Daniel Ladinsky, Ed.
“Can’t talk to you without talking to me
We’re guilty of the same old things
Thinking a lot about less and less
And forgetting the love we bring…”