KNOWLEDGE - WROTE THESE MANY YEARS AGO FOR MY CHILDREN

5.   KNOWLEDGE  5.1  Knowledge  is   the   sum   total   of   one's   life's  experience  and   study.  
And   of   all   knowledge,   the   knowledge   gained   by   one's  personal   experience   is  
the   longest   lasting.  

5.2 Most   people   who   thirst for   knowledge   never   get   a   chance  to   obtain  it,   but   
get   lost   in   the   desert   sands   of   the   struggle for   existence.   And   most   of   those   
who   have   been   blessed   with   the   means   for   acquiring   knowledge,   scorn its   pursuit.   
And   most   of   those   who   acquire  knowledge  are   soon   gone   from   this   world   leaving  
not  a   trace to   show   for   it   like   rain   on   the   sands   of   the   desert.   
It  is   the  small   miniscule   who   record   their experiences   for  posterity,   to   whom   we   
owe   every   comfort   of   civilization.  

5.3 Never   has   the   birch   raised   a   welt   on   which   words   of  knowledge   could   
be   imprinted.

'TIS AN IDLE FANCY - A poem my me written in an idle moment ...

                                                 'Tis AN IDLE FANCY 

                                                                                        A poem by Deepak Menon

I love HER? How can you say that?
I tell you it is not true!!
You insist! Even when it isn't a fact?
Oh! How can I convince you?
.
I do not believe a word you say!
And even if I did, so what?
So what if throughout the day
My brow is feverish and hot?
.
So what if from my deepest slumber
I start, and then to her call out?
So what if efforts to erase her memory
Have by time - been put to rout?
.
So what if I often think of her,
And talk and dream and live her name?
So what if my eyes are often filmed
With tears of sorrow, lingering shame
.
That I could not my conscience still
And keep my tryst with destiny's call?
So what if her image my heart does fill
So what if she holds my heart in thrall?
.
'Tis nonsense, once more I tell you
You are mistaken, though you know me well
Even though away with my soul she flew
'Tis an idle fancy, - can't you tell?

African Woman -A painting by Deepak Menon (House Husband)

Nothing posted by me since a long time - so here is a painting I made many years ago of an African Woman playing an African Musical Instrument - I saw the picture in the National Geographic Magazine somewhere and though the painting is changed a lot from the Photograph, the expression on the woman's face was so plaintive that it stuck to my mind and the painting reflects that to some extent!

In the footsteps of the Buddha

Link

http://glidingdove.multiply.com/journal/item/4/In-the-footsteps-of-the-Buddha 

ABHA FINALLY GOT SOME TIME TO WRITE A VIEW ON "In the footsteps of the Buddha". I think all my friends in the BT (Buddhist Travelers Group) will like to read it - so please click on the Link thing above and do read her comments.
Deepak

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