Graduation

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Graduación
por Nimesh Patel

Ten un ojo en la meta y luego déjala ir
Porque todo cambia, como llegarás a saber
Cada plan que haces y cada semilla que plantas
Es temporal, nada te pertenece nunca.

Una vez que te des cuenta de esto, entonces verás la verdad
Que nunca plantaste tus propias frutas,
Pero acepta estos regalos aunque no sepas de quien vienen
Y amablemente haz lo mismo por l@s que vienen detrás de ti

Porque finalmente, lo que tomamosdesaparecerá
Pero lo que damos vivirá por años
Así que sigue dando de lo tuyo y a tí mismo
Hasta que tu ego se haya derretido completamente

Ten cuidado del impacto que quieres causar
y en su lugar asegúrate de ser impactado cada día
Ten un ojo en el cielo, pero sigue viendo las hormigas
Porque las cosas pequeñas son la base de todo lo que perdurará

Nosotr@s seguimos adelante
Mientras el tiempo pasa
Tengamos la esperanza de ir desde
La oscuridad a la luz
Cuando lleguemos a la cima
Y miremos atrás, Yo
Espero que llores,
Con abundantes lágrimas de alegría, satisfech@

Ten cuidado de no acumular demasiadas cosas
Porque puedes acabar lleno de avaricia
Y haciendo cosas de igual manera puede también ser engañoso
Así que les animo a practicar sólo ser

Ten calma, se feliz, se amoros@, se amable
Se humilde, se mágico, se consciente, pero se ciego

No juzgues, ve lo bueno en una y en cada alma
Usa tu mente cuando la necesites, pero sigue tu corazón aún más

Tampoco te olvides de dar gracias a Dios, cada vez que fracases
Porque tu camino desde el fracaso, serán tu legado y tu historia
Recuerda alimentar a los pájaros, abrazar a los árboles y hacer reverencias al Sol
Hasta que tú y la Madre Naturaleza sean uno

La última cosa, es estar agradecid@ por todos tus dones
Porque la gratitud y el sufrimiento no pueden coexistir
Cuando llegues a este espacio, cada momento será dicha
Y graduarte en esto marcará tu éxito.

Feliz, libre, confundid@ y solitari@, abatid@ y mágic@ a la vez
Nuestra capacidad para amar es una moneda que nunca se agota,
Ten en cuenta a l@s que son como Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Madre Teresa,
Y que cada un@ de ustedes se vierta en ese generoso océano y descubran cada día lo
que significa dar,

Dando puedes experimentar completamente lo que significa recibir,
Y como Martin Luther King dice, “Todo el mundo puede ser grande, porque todo el mundo
puede servir”
Ojalá que encuentren la grandeza del servicio a la vida,
Ojalá que den, reciban y nunca dejen de bailar. Gracias.



En la cumbre de una carrera vertiginosa, el joven rapero de origen hindú-estadounidense Nimesh ”Nimo” Patel fue poseído por un gran sentido de vacío. A su veintitantos años de edad, abandonó ser el centro de atención. Una voz interior le empujo a simplificar radicalmente su vida y encontrar su propósito en el servicio a l@s demás. Trasladándose al Ashram Gandhi en la parte del Planeta que llamamos India, se dedicó por completo a estar con l@s niñ@s de los suburbios. Después de una interrupción de 7 años- 5 de los cuales pasó viviendo con y aprendiendo de las comunidades de los suburbios- algo dentro de él le empujó aescribir música de nuevo. Pero esta vez con un espíritu diferente. Uno que reflejaría el corazón de la humanidad. En los últimos 9 meses Nimo ha lanzado un álbum trabajo-de-amor, ha coproducido dos vídeos de música sobre la bondad y la gratitud, y se ha embarcado en un peregrinaje musical– todo con la intención de encontrar, practicar y compartir pequeños actos con gran amor. La lectura de arriba es la letra de una de sus canciones: Graduación.
Seed Questions for Reflection

How do you relate to the notion that "gratitude and suffering cannot co-exist?" Can you share a personal experience of a time when you realized that "love is a currency that never runs out?" How do we practice having an eye on the sky while still seeing the ants?

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Gabriel Evangelista
Mar 9, 2020
Hello, world.
It's so nice to find this reading here.
I heard about Nimo's music for the first time in an Awakin Circle in Oakland, back in 2018. His music has come with me ever since.
Last December, I graduated from university (Mexico) and I had the chance to write the graduation speech for my classmates. It was a nice surprise to find out that this song's ideas were the core of the message. It was all about gratitude, about how "... We never were the planter of your own fruits," and about not really owning our diplomas. It was a nice day. Many people cried :,)
It is wonderful to realize that the words were never really mine.

Deep gratitude for this wonderful space.

PS: Sorry if this wasn't related directly to the seed questions.
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Elyse
Apr 7, 2015

 I had begun a gratitude journal several months before my husband was diagnosed with a heart problem that would require him to have open heart surgery.   The news was initially overwhelming since I was 6 months pregnant and our son was just three.  That night when I left the hospital with my husband in their care I went home and in tears reached for my journal. It was then that instead of struggling to think of something to be grateful for, I was flooded with gratitude for the supports and blessings that surrounded me. Gratitude doesn't always come as easily but when I pause to reflect, I can always find it.

TH
Apr 5, 2015

 This is truth!
 Consumers, in time, become consumed.  Givers (lovers), in time, are joined in/with/to Love. 
One ("using") ultimately leads us to "death".  The other (loving) grows us . . . to LIFE (graduation)!

DD
Apr 3, 2015
My thought about gratitude and suffering not being able to coexist is that gratitude overrides pain.  Of course, if pain is severe, it takes profound gratitude to override it.  That's a theory -- I've never had the experience.  I learned that love is like muscle, the more you use it the bigger and stronger it gets, it's not like a bar of soap that diminishes as you use it.  I probably learned the truth of that most powerfully in the process of my love growing in having a child, and then a second child.  Over the years I'm happy to notice that my judgementalness has decreased and my compassion and love have grown, which makes my living more peaceful and satisfying.  What occurs to me about having an eye on the sky while still seeing the ants is that it is important to see the forest and the trees, not lose sight of either, maintain balance.  While I have some grand vision, it's important to live in each moment and relate with each person with compassi... View full comment
JP
Apr 3, 2015
 Three basic inquiries have laid the foundation of my living holistically. What? Why? And How?  What is my purpose/? What is my intention? Why Am I here? What I am doing or going to do is in alignment with my intention? How am going to follow my bliss? These question have been guiding questions for me as I have been walking on the path of  my life.To me it is a journey, I am arriving and  I am not in a hurry. I hasten slowly. In fact, the path is the goal. There is no disconnect with What? Why? And How? In my journey I run into people who are on the same path, people who are much more evolved and a few who are self realized. Such readings resonate in me and I am grateful for receiving such gifts. The real work for me is to not only to reflect and contemplate on such readings but to practice and apply them in my everyday life. I am grateful to remain connected with like minded people who share their learning by responding to such readin... View full comment
KP
Apr 3, 2015

 When we are grateful we are focusing on that energy and on those experiences in a new light, suffering then is not taking precendence. We are seeing the beauty around us, the love, the joy even in the sorrow. We are reminded of all that is working well even in the midst of what is not. Gratitude helps re-frame everything; we are sick, we are reminded of the systems that continue to work in our bodies; whether it's our heart pumping or our lungs breathing. When we are in pain, we are reminded of all the times we were fortunate to not be in pain.
Love is a currency that never runs out; the more you give, the more you receive in return; but that is not why one shares love. You can blow out a candle, but you cannot blow out a fire: love is the same; the more love there is, the harder it is to extinguish it.
How do we practice eye on sky & see the ants: see the beauty in both and realize it is all the small things that add up to the big. <3