Subject: Re: Glass Yogis
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Fri Apr 14 2000 - 14:24:18 EDT
'... Mattis, what's the difference, do you think, between
a poet and yogi? ...'
If I may intrude on a private conversation, I would say:
All the Difference in the World.
Goodness is easy. Craft is impossibly difficult.
Any Tom, Dick or Krishna can be a yogi. 'Wisdom' or
'understanding' or 'insight' are two a penny - & will come
to most people whether they like it or not, in modest
quantities, if they live long enough. Keep your nose clean,
keep smiling, avoid any positive action that might look
a bit dodgy & 'goodness' will be added as the cherry to put
on top.
But a facility with pen, paintbrush or piano - the kind
that's honed over the years to the dizzying command
of a master craftsman - is given to very, very few. If, to
this, is added the even rarer gift of good luck, then you
may, just possibly, have a piece of enduring poetry or music
or art on your hands.
For every Wolfgang Amadeus, there are about three
thousand saints.
Scottie B.
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