PANORAMIC INSIGHT
by
Lee Tze Hui
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To the risk of
loving unconditionally and completely
for
it is food for the soul.
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Table of Contents
Please Don’t Leave Me Here Alone
Reflection on the Eight Sorrowful Stages of Life
The Arahant Khema [The Supreme Saint, Divine Gold]
The Arahant, Uppalavanna [The Supreme Saint, Hue of the Blue Lotus]
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Numerous phenomenal ideas and great names,
Question why Eastern society is so tame;
Are all human beings really so blind and lame,
That when problems arise, on all others we blame?
In truth, Confucius banged on true fidelity,
It is the strength that bonds together the family;
It stresses on loyalty in relationships,
Keeps responsibility from jumping the ship.
But the cruel Emperors of the Orient,
And the Pharaohs of Egypt lashed without an end;
Rome displayed Eastern thoughts of untold suppression,
They were ‘supreme gods’ who exercised domination.
Gladiators fought to the death without compassion,
Entertainment was based on gross whims and passion;
Slaves in arenas were mauled and eaten alive,
Paying spectators screamed in madness, playing with lives.
The nobles, the samurai of ancient Japan,
Privileged to behead a peasant, or any man;
Arrogantly walked off leaving a bloody mass,
For the peasants and ‘eta’ to clean up the mess
(eta were the untouchables of Japan who ate red meat, while the rest seafood)
“Theory without application is empty”, (Anthony Falikowski)
Application without theory is flighty; (blind)
Black notes without bar lines do not create music,
Murder investigations are mostly forensic.
The spirit of the West is a Greek discovery,
They were noble intellectuals without rivalry;
Discovered science, mathematics and philosophy,
Wisely, they threw aside irrationality.
The Greeks emerged from the dark ages before Christ,
Thoughts of geniuses of Athens shattered through and prised;
Magnificently molded the minds and spirits,
Of barbarians’ and ours, so ignorance be rid.
The modern world copies the great Greek miracle,
No poets can touch Plato’s wonderful classical;
Homer is the master of epics in total,
Thucydides, Pindar, Socrates, Aristotle.
The Splendor and majesty of great philosophers,
Socrates’ influence on Plato was deep, his first;
Socrates’ practical survival means saved him from wrath,
Ethical views, immortality, the soul and death
The West shares knowledge with the world for society,
The East keeps all to themselves and their family;
Ethnocentrism combines with subjective bias,
Inescapable eastern traits like gender bias.
Philosophy opens up our precious minds,