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  • The Paradox of Paradise

    The Paradox of Paradise

    The Dance Between Heart, Mind, Reality and the World

    paradise paradox loveWe’re in love and life is grand, majestic, full of light and… we often worry about the loss of love.

    We’re in love, getting to know each other and STUFF comes up – and joy and pain are dancing in an intimate embrace.

    We’re working through some deep wound from the past. It’s challenging, agonizing and yet, we continue – often with joy

    Bliss & Joy are NOT Dependent Upon Circumstances

    The heart dances to a different drum than our normal mind and conditioning imagine. In the world of separate entities, love is often dependent and tied to the past – unconscious needs and demands muddying the waters of current experience. Love becomes a shadow of its true nature patterned with blemishes, dark spots and holes.

    Love cannot be learned or taught; love comes as grace. ~Rumi

    When we begin the work, the return to the true nature of the heart – the heart rejoices in every step regardless of pain and suffering. The heart loves to be free, to be naked to its nature – transparent to reality.

    Don’t worry about mending

    A broken heart

    Or wearing it

    On a shirt sleeve

    That heart

    Is only on loan

    When the Owner

    Wants it back

    He’s going to

    Reclaim it

    Regardless

    Of the shape

    It’s in

  • The Value of Suffering

    Suffering Serves the Soul’s Journey

    Between flights the other day in Detroit, I picked up the latest issue of Rolling Stone with Louis CK on the cover and read this gem:

    The worst thing happening to this generation is that they’re taking discomfort away from themselves… Louis Ck

    Meher BabaIt reminded me of some ending comments and observations in this video about sociopaths – that our culture, more and more, supports moving away from emotional conflict through drugs. Feeling anxious, feeling depressed, feeling forlorn – take a pill. I’m not knocking the pills or that some people certainly need the support, but the point in the film and what I hear Louis CK noting is that average people are being seduced by big pharma that any emotional suffering is a good reason to pop a pill. Their message is quite a bit different from Meher Baba‘s – Don’t Worry, Be Happy.

     

     What do those that look beyond the suffering or those that understand the deeper nature of suffering say?

    Until you’ve found pain, you won’t reach the cure
    Until you’ve given up life, you won’t unite with
       the supreme soul
    Until you’ve found fire inside yourself, like the Friend,
    You won’t reach the spring of life, like Khezr (the green man) – Rumi

    So to really deal with the issue of suffering, we need to understand reality. We need to go all the way through the process of realization. The process of realization, of understanding the truth, is a process of understanding and relieving oneself from suffering. There is no shortcut; there is only one way. What’s causing suffering cannot be surmounted, cannot simply be dropped, cannot be ignored, cannot even be erased by some essential awakening or realization. Suffering is a fundamental factor in our lives that has to be dealt with. We need a lot of study and understanding; we need to go through all the dimensions before we can exit the realm of suffering. Many of us hope we can exit right away, hope we can transcend our problems through spiritual experience. But unless we actually penetrate our beliefs and identifications, our life will always involve suffering. – A. H. Almaas

  • Become the Pearl Beyond Price

    Pearl Beyond Price RumiRumi Poem – 
    becoming a real human being –
    The Pearl Beyond Price

    Thought I would try a little poetry by Rumi (Coleman Barks – Like This) with images.

     

  • Come, come, whoever you are

    Rumi entreats us to come to the beloved

    I was at Esin Restaurant in Danville, CA last night having a glass of wine when Esin joined my dad and me. We got to sharing history and stories. I mentioned Rumi to Esin (she is from Turkey) and she said her mother read Rumi. Esin remembers her mother reciting these lines:

    Come, come, whoever you are.

    Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving.

    It doesn’t matter.

    Ours is not a caravan of despair.

    Come, even if you have broken your vow

    a thousand times

    Come, yet again, come, come.

    I asked Esin if she knew of Yunus Emre. She did and wanted to know how I knew of him.

    Don’t all lovers of the divine know of Yunus, Rumi, Hafiz, Rabia?

    Mystical Poets

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  • Devastation – Ruin of the Heart

    Devastation-ruin-heart

    The road to devastation

    Takes many forms

    Insignificance

    Is another’s greatest calamity

    Don’t judge the result

    By the route

    The devastated know

    Total

    Is

    Total

    J Harper

    The way of love is not a subtle argument.

    The door there is devastation.

    Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom.

    How do they learn it?

    They fall, and falling, they’re given wings.

    Rumi

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  • 2007 – The End

    rumiThe Soul Wakes - Rumi In SongA calligraphy near Rumi’s tomb reads: “after my death, don’t seek my tomb in the earth, for my grave is in the hearts of the men of mystical knowledge.”

     

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