Writing and the Threshold Life
Writing and the Threshold Life was naturally a good read for me because of coarse anything dealing with poetry catches my interest. Although this isn't all really about poetry, is it? No not really, part is about the complex nature of a play. Buddhism has always been a great religion to me it uplifts the spirit of those who follows it, it is such a positive religion . It doesn't just give you a set of rules and orders to follow, it gives you guidelines to be happy and to eventually reach a state of purity and relaxation. In this play the story is based upon the blueprint of Buddhism and two monks who follow the religion with strong respectful views. On their journey they meet and elderly women who on a first impression anyone would assume to be just a poor begger. They see her on a stub of a tree which for the monks is a insult to the religion. They have a disagreement and as she speaks her appearance become irrelevant because she speaks with such wisdom and seems to be poetic. The monks then come to learn that she is not just some old begger women but the infamous poet Komachi. They then ask her why do she dress like a begger because at one point in her life she was so very beautiful and full of grace. She then tells them that in her past life she was in short term what you would call a player. She never wanted to settle down with any of the many men who cared to catch her attention. One man that she led on and left on her door step in the cold loved her very much and when he died her body caught his spirit. Sense he was so full of sorrow and hurt that is all she has felt she is some what possessed with the ghost of him. Until she reaches where she needs to be (i believe Nirvana I'm not sure) than she will feel the burden of both of their sorrow. One thing about this reading that caught my eye was something that
Galway Kinnell wrote that made me think. He wrote "for the writer to write at all he or she must cultivate a heart that opens in tenderness to all things". From this i get that to be a good writer you have to understand the perspective of every view be opened minded and open hearted. He wrote "Tenderness does not choose its own uses it goes out to everything equally, circling rabbit and hawk. look in the iron bucket, a single nail, a single ruby, all the heavens and hells. they rattle in the heart and make one sound" i found that to be very beautiful because i could to relate to my own poetry i tryto view everyones point of view. At times i even write about things that ive never been through just my perspective of how others viewed a situation.
Want to hear some of my work? Well here you go (p.s im very sensitive about my work but also very passonate about it , hope you like it =)
