Comments on: Uplift http://emptypath.wordpress.com/2007/11/08/uplift/ Nonaligned faith and practice in the present Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:10:44 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: A disciple of that intensity « Turning into the Slide http://emptypath.wordpress.com/2007/11/08/uplift/#comment-83 A disciple of that intensity « Turning into the Slide Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:24:11 +0000 http://emptypath.wordpress.com/2007/11/08/uplift/#comment-83 [...] discovered at:  Uplift - The Empty Path Published [...] [...] discovered at:  Uplift – The Empty Path Published [...]

]]> By: TheOtherIvy http://emptypath.wordpress.com/2007/11/08/uplift/#comment-82 TheOtherIvy Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:03:34 +0000 http://emptypath.wordpress.com/2007/11/08/uplift/#comment-82 Beautiful selection of poems. I was searching for Kabir and the Guest online and found your Uplift -The Empty Path. "When the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work. Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity." I like this excerpt. I stumble on the word slave, though. It is so smudged with negative connotations. I'd prefer something like disciple or a word that means ardent student. I wonder what kind of variations there have been in the translations. Beautiful selection of poems.
I was searching for Kabir and the Guest online and found your Uplift -The Empty Path.

“When the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work.
Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.”

I like this excerpt. I stumble on the word slave, though. It is so smudged with negative connotations.
I’d prefer something like disciple or a word that means ardent student. I wonder what kind of variations there have been in the translations.

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