ALL (almost) ABOUT OMMEN

About the Ommen

Cautious, like one crossing thin ice,
Hesitant, like one who fears danger,
Modest, like one who is a guest,
Smooth, like melting ice,
Genuine, like unshaped wood,
Empty, like a riverbed,
Opaque, like muddy water

Just for beginning


Fame or Self: which is dearer?
Self or wealth: which is more valuable?
Profit or loss: which is more painful?

Great love incurs great expense,
And great wealth incurs great theft,
But great contentment incurs no loss.

Therefore:
He who knows when to stop
Does not continue into danger,
And may long endure.


Contentment,Lao Tze

AND an old priest said, Speak to us of Religion.
And he said:
Have I spoken this day of aught else?
Is not religion all deeds and all reflection,
And that which is neither deed nor reflection,
but a wonder and a surprise ever
springing in the soul, even while the hands
hew the stone or tend the loom?

Who can separate his faith from his actions,
or his belief from his occupations?

Who can spread his hours before him, saying,
"This for God and this for myself;
This for my soul, and this other for mybody?"

All your hours are wings that beat through space from self to self.

He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.

The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.

And he who defines his conduct by ethics
imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

The freest song comes not through bars and wires.

And he to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut,
has not yet visited the house of his soul whose windows are from dawn to dawn.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion.

Whenever you enter into it take with you your all.

Take the plough and the forge and the mallet and the lute,
The things you have fashioned in necessity or for delight.

For in revery you cannot rise above your
achievements nor fall lower than your failures.

And take with you all men:

For in adoration you cannot fly higher
than their hopes nor humble yourself lower
than their despair.

And if you would know God be not
therefore a solver of riddles.

Rather look about you and you shall see
Him playing with your children.

And look into space; you shall see Him
walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms
in the lightning and descending in rain.

You shall see Him smiling in flowers,
then rising and waving His hands in trees.

KhalliL gIBRaN , THE PROPHET

.....Atas.......

tentang 'Kemarahan'

Apakah kekuatanku, sehingga aku sanggup bertahan,dan apakah masa depanku sehingga aku harus bersabar?
apakah aku seperti kerasnya batu?apakah tubuhku dari baja?
bukankah manusia harus bergumul di bumi,dan hari harinya seperti orang upahan?
seperti seorang budak yang merindukan naungan,
seperti seorang upahan menantikan gajian,
demikian diberikan padaku bulan yang sia sia
dan ditentukan buatku malam malam penuh kegelisahan
saat kupergi tidur, pikirku : kapankah aku akan bangun?
tetapi malam merentang panjang, dan aku dicekam gelisah, sampai dini hari
apabila kupikir tilamku akan memberi penghiburan
dan tempat pembaringanku akan meringakan keluh kesahku,
maka Kau kagetkan aku dengan impian dan Kau kejutkan aku dengan khayal
diriku dihempaskan, otakku digerogoti dan rasa nyeri menusuk hati
aku berseru minta tolong,tapi tak Kau hiraukan
Engkau kejam kepadaku,
mengangkat aku,Kau lempar dan Kau hancurkan
lalu Engkau akan mencari aku,tetapi aku tidak akan ada lagi
aku jemu, aku tidak ingin hidup selamanya ,
aku berdiri dan menanti,tapi tak Kau hiraukan,
aku menangis, tapi ketika kuharap yang baik,
kejahatanlah yang datang,
ketika kuharap terang, kegelapanlah yang mengisi,
Apakah aku, sehingga Kau anggap aku agung dan Kau perhatikan,
Kau datangi dan Kau uji tiap saat?
dengan sedih,dengan tidak terhibur,aku disini,
menunggu.


(tiada uraian yang lebih tepat
untuk menggambarkan kemarahan
selain yang diambil dari 'Job'.)