{"id":393,"date":"1987-07-15T20:21:47","date_gmt":"1987-07-16T03:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=393"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:02:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:02:12","slug":"senses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1987\/07\/15\/senses\/","title":{"rendered":"Senses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh Sickened man<br \/>\ndistraught with your own pains,<br \/>\nlook about you:<\/p>\n<p>What more can there be than<br \/>\nwhat there is you see<br \/>\nabout you?<\/p>\n<p>Sickening man,<br \/>\nlook with eyes<br \/>\nfeel with hands<br \/>\nhear with ears<br \/>\nand know with brain<br \/>\nfor never will the senses<br \/>\nteach the knowledge<br \/>\nthat is beyond the senses.<\/p>\n<p>Never can the knowledge<br \/>\nof all<br \/>\nbe found or learnt by<br \/>\nillusory sense impressions<br \/>\nfor no impression is left<br \/>\nby the absolute<br \/>\nin its absoluteness.<\/p>\n<p>No impression can be<br \/>\nreceived<br \/>\nand no brain can have<br \/>\nknowledge,<br \/>\nand no hands can feel,<br \/>\nand no ears can<br \/>\nhear the<br \/>\ninfinite,<br \/>\nand yet hands feel the absolute<br \/>\nall the time,<br \/>\nears hear infinity all the<br \/>\ntime, and eyes<br \/>\nmay always see infinity,<br \/>\nfor each sense<br \/>\nis both a unit of and a<br \/>\nwhole of the infinity that<br \/>\nas a sense<br \/>\nit cannot comprehend.<br \/>\nAt all times we are bombarded<br \/>\nand surrounded by and<br \/>\nimmersed in that<br \/>\nwhich our senses cannot<br \/>\nsense,<br \/>\nbut which our minds<br \/>\nmay be aware of.<\/p>\n<p>That which our universes,<br \/>\nexternal,<br \/>\ninternal,<br \/>\nsupernal,<br \/>\nare always part &#8211; of<br \/>\neach permeating the other,<br \/>\neach containing the<br \/>\nuniverses which contain it:<br \/>\neach being the other.<\/p>\n<p>On such dimensions as body<br \/>\nmay feel this cannot be,<br \/>\nbut such as bodily awareness<br \/>\ninduces, hinders<br \/>\nall to whom this attachment<br \/>\nbecomes all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh Sickened man<br \/> distraught with your own pains,<br \/> look about you:<\/p>\n<p>What more can there be than<br \/> what there is you see<br \/> about you?<\/p>\n<p>Sickening man,<br \/> look with eyes<br \/> feel with hands<br \/> hear with ears<br \/> and know with brain<br \/> for never will the senses<br \/> teach the knowledge<br \/> that is [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphysical","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}