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True Names
    #9015031 - 10/01/08 06:52 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

So, a concept I keep coming across is that people have a "true name" which is not their everyday, given name, but rather is soemthign deeper that is unique to them alone and describes or even denotes their very essence. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Do you think they actually exist? Have any ideas on how to find yours?


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Re: True Names [Re: trillby33]
    #9015088 - 10/01/08 07:02 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

I find on different trips (or intense group happenings of any sort) people sometimes adopt some sort of essence yes. Often it's a color to me, but sometimes it's just a stream of predictability or massive strong vibes.

But yeah man, I'd say whatever way you choose to describe someones essence, there's always a chance they will change over time.


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Re: True Names [Re: trillby33]
    #9015108 - 10/01/08 07:06 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

I had a dream once where a Daemon asked me "Who are you?" not with words but with a kind of thunder and I answered with a 5 note melody.

Don't say that I will depart tomorrow-
even today I am still arriving.
Look deeply: every second I am arriving
to be a bud on a Spring branch,
to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings,
learning to sing in my new nest,
to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry,
to fear and to hope.
The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death
of all that is alive.
I am a mayfly metamorphosing
on the surface of the river.
And I am the bird
that swoops down to swallow the mayfly.
I am a frog swimming happily
in the clear water of a pond.
And I am the grass-snake
that silently feeds itself on the frog.

I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones,
my legs as thin a bamboo sticks.
And I am the arms merchant,
selling deadly weapons to Uganda.
I am the twelve-year-old girl,
refugee on a small boat,
who throws herself into the ocean
after being raped by a sea pirate.
And I am the pirate,
my heart not yet capable
of seeing and loving.

My joy is like Spring, so warm
it makes flowers bloom all over the Earth.
My pain is like a river of tears,
so vast it fills the four oceans.

Please call me by my true names,
so I can hear all my cries and laughter at once,
so I can see that my joy and pain are one.

Please call me by my true names,
so I can wake up
and the door of my heart
could be left open,
the door of compassion.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh


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