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Issue #2781, Saturday, April 7,
2007, Editor: Mark
Ram Tzu believes
In the law
Of cause and effect.
He just doesn't know
Which is which.
- Ram Tzu, No Way for the Spiritually "Advanced",
posted to AlongTheWay
Question: From where do all these worlds
come from?
Answer: They come from space (Spirit)
All beings have arisen from Space(Spirit)
And back into Space they return:
Space (Spirit) is indeed their beginning,
And Space (Spirit) is their final End
- from Chan Dogya Upanishad 1.9.1, posted to MysticSpirit
The Sufi believes that consciousness has, so to speak, produced
matter, or substance, out of itself, while yet remaining itself
in its original state.
A Meditation Theme For Each Day:
From The Teachings of:
Hazrat Pir-o-Murshic Inayat Khan
Selected & Arranged by:
Hazrat Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, posted to SufiMystic
As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when
the heart is open.
Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
Every name and every form speaks constantly, constantly makes
signs for you to hear, for you to respond to, for you to
interpret, that you may become a friend of God. The whole purpose
of your life is to make yourself ready to understand what God is,
what your fellow man is, what the nature of man is, what life is.
Now coming to a still greater secret of life I want to answer the
question: how can we grow to read and understand the message that
life speaks through all its names and forms? The answer is that,
as by the opening of the eyes you can see things, so by the
opening of the heart you can understand things. As long as the
heart is closed you cannot understand things. The secret is that,
when the ears and eyes of the heart are open, all planes of the
world are open, all names are open, all secrets, all mysteries
are unfolded.
The question arises: what is the manner of opening the heart? The
way to it is a natural life, the life of the child, smiling with
the smiling one, praying with the praying one, ready to learn
from everyone, ready to love. The child has enmity against no
one, he has no hatred, no malice, his heart is open. It is in the
child that you can see the smiles of angels; he can see through
life. When the grown- up person is made ready, when he has
acquired the attributes of the child, then he creates heaven
within himself, he understands. The child with his innocence does
not understand, but when a man with understanding develops the
childlike loving tendency, the purity of heart of the child with
the desire to be friendly to all -- that is the opening of the
heart, and it is by that blessing that he can receive all the
privileges of human life.
When the spark that is to be found in every heart, the spark that
may be called the divine spark in man, is blown upon and the
flame arises, the whole life becomes illuminated and man hears
and sees and knows, and he understands. A Sufi poet says that
every leaf of the tree becomes like a page of the sacred book,
when the heart is open to read it and when the soul has opened
its eyes.
Everything becomes spiritual once this door of the chamber of the
heart is open. If a man is a musician, then his music is
celestial. If he is a poet, then his poetry is spiritual. If he
is an artist, then his art is a spiritual work. Whatever he may
do in life that divine spirit manifests. He need not be a
religious person, he need not be a philosopher, he need not be a
mystic. It is simply that what was hidden in him and thereby was
keeping his life incomplete begins to manifest to view, and that
makes his life perfect.
- posted to SufiMystic
Give yourself a kiss.
If you live in China, don't look
somewhere else, in Tibet, or Mongolia.
If you want to hold the beautiful one,
hold yourself to yourself.
When you kiss the Beloved,
touch your own lips with your own fingers.
The beauty of every woman and every man
is your own beauty.
The confusion of your hair
obscures that sometimes.
An artist comes to paint you
and stands with his mouth open.
Your love reveals your beauty,
but all covering would disappear
if only for a moment your holding-back
would sit before your generosity
and ask,
"Sir, who are you?"
At that,
Shams' life-changing face
gives you a wink.
- Rumi, Ghazal 2061, version by Coleman Barks, Like This,
posted to Sunlight
In this gaze, please see the beholding of you. These are not just
words. There is a direct channel from the heart out the eyes, and
when we gaze at each other we start this magnificent waterfall of
adoration. This is what hello is really for, is this. To stop
long enough to notice that we're really here, that it's good,
good because it is. And in this gaze, see the invitation to be
seen, not just the good parts, not just the parts we think need
work, but the whole of you.
May we never get going beyond this hello. May we die right here
in this eternal hello. May it all end. May our minds squirm and
wriggle as they feel us pinned to here--no escape--until they
know this deep rest, and just fall over in boredom and bliss into
this. Wave the white flag and let themselves be completely
gotten.
- Jeannie Zandi