The basic Buddhist concept of suffering as the dominating element of life was not always easy to accept...
that everything alive is ruled by tragedy,
by suffering – all life is tragic,
and this fact is best observed
by everything that's going on in nature:
man cannot escape it, he is not exempt,
his penchant for illusions and delusions
cannot help him: in the end, he must accept the fact
that everything is but a tragedy,
and his only cure and remedy for this
is to accept it, face the facts and stare reality
in death's own grinning face, embrace it
and submit to the ordeal of having to subordinate
to the oblique reality of tragedy
as the irrevocable frame and limitation
to his life, his personality and all existence.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2019-07-28 at 09:54
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The Rule of Tragedy
It's a universal law of life,that everything alive is ruled by tragedy,
by suffering – all life is tragic,
and this fact is best observed
by everything that's going on in nature:
man cannot escape it, he is not exempt,
his penchant for illusions and delusions
cannot help him: in the end, he must accept the fact
that everything is but a tragedy,
and his only cure and remedy for this
is to accept it, face the facts and stare reality
in death's own grinning face, embrace it
and submit to the ordeal of having to subordinate
to the oblique reality of tragedy
as the irrevocable frame and limitation
to his life, his personality and all existence.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
Read 635 times
Written on 2019-07-28 at 09:54
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