Above is Ni Andong’s cover of Damien Rice’s ‘The Blower’s Daughter’, whose original version is below. Ni’s take sent some shivers down my spine (in a resonant, not creepy way), more so than Rice’s version, which is moving too. But what’s more interesting is that I finally heard the last words clearly –
I can’t take my eyes off you
I can’t take my eyes off you
I can’t take my eyes off you
I can’t take my eyes off you
I can’t take my eyes off you
I can’t take my eyes…Did I say that I loathe you?
Did I say that I want to
Leave it all behind?I can’t take my mind off you
I can’t take my mind off you…
I can’t take my mind off you
I can’t take my mind off you
I can’t take my mind off you
I can’t take my mind…
My mind… my mind…
‘Til I find somebody new
The last line is simply amazing. After all the painful lamenting of the singer that he can’t forget someone in a love-hate relationship, he seems sure that he will be able to let go when he finds another love interest. How can someone be so heartbroken over a lost love while thinking of the possibility of a new love? How true is love that can waver? Is this hypocritical? Not really, perhaps. It is honest to truth – the case for most beings in Samsara, who are cyclical, self-conflicting in nature, loving and loathing, clinging and losing. This is a sad song indeed, that sings of the suffering of Samsara.
Samsara is obviously a bitter seas with it’s high and low tides. Imagine the lover on the receiving end. To be uttered sweet nothings only to be spurned in end. All things change so for the better or worse. Some change just simply take a longer time than the rest. The way of a Buddhist is not only to reach enlightenment but to transform the bitter seas into a sweet sea of aspirations to benefit sentient beings. 把苦海å˜æˆæ„¿æµ·ã€‚This Buddhist spirit is not only spiritually true but secularly if all leaders work to benefit society and humans. All mankind make aspirations unique to their capabilities to benefit sentient beings in their own ways. This world will see real solutions to the real problems we face around us.