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    This poem discusses loneliness and the importance of not trusting others. It describes the speaker's lifelong companion of loneliness, like a rhinoceros or juniper tree. While sometimes feeling sad and happy with the lonely moon, it's best to remain solitary and not trust others. By staying independent and not relying on friends or others, one can never be defeated, like a solitary yak that defeats wolves. However, one can still be friendly without trusting or becoming too involved with others. The overall message is to stand on your own and remember not to trust.

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    Poem by Chogyam Trungpa

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    This poem discusses loneliness and the importance of not trusting others. It describes the speaker's lifelong companion of loneliness, like a rhinoceros or juniper tree. While sometimes feeling sad and happy with the lonely moon, it's best to remain solitary and not trust others. By staying independent and not relying on friends or others, one can never be defeated, like a solitary yak that defeats wolves. However, one can still be friendly without trusting or becoming too involved with others. The overall message is to stand on your own and remember not to trust.

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    Loneliness, Solitude and Non-Trusting Independence

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    Guillermo Ruiz García
    This poem discusses loneliness and the importance of not trusting others. It describes the speaker's lifelong companion of loneliness, like a rhinoceros or juniper tree. While sometimes feeling sad and happy with the lonely moon, it's best to remain solitary and not trust others. By staying independent and not relying on friends or others, one can never be defeated, like a solitary yak that defeats wolves. However, one can still be friendly without trusting or becoming too involved with others. The overall message is to stand on your own and remember not to trust.

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    Looking into the world

    I see alone a chrysanthemum,


    Lonely, loneliness,
    And death approaches.
    Abandoned by guru and friend,
    I stand like a lonely juniper
    Which grows among the rocks,
    Hardened and tough.
    Loneliness is my habit  
    I grew up in loneliness
    Like a rhinoceros.
    Loneliness is my companion  
    I converse with myself.
    Yet sometimes also,
    Lonely moon,
    Sad and happy come together.
      
    Do not trust.
    If you trust you are in others hands.
    It is like the single yak [don't trust the other yaks]
    That defeats the wolves.
    Herds panic and in trying to flee
    Are attacked.
    Remaining in solitude
    You can never be defeated.
    So do not trust,
    For trust is surrendering oneself [to delusion].
    Never, never trust.
      
    But be friendly.
    By being friendly towards others
    You increase your non-trusting.
    The idea is to be independent,
    Not involved,
    Not glued, one might say, to others.
    Thus one becomes ever more
    Compassionate and friendly.
    Whatever happens, stand on your own feet
    And memorize this incantation:
    Do not trust.

    Poem by Chogyam Trungpa

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