Thursday, April 28, 2011

700 hundred years ago Yunus Emre said

Love the created for the sake of the Creator

Mevlâna Jalâluddîn Rumi

* The human being has been created with love in order to love.

* All loves are a bridge to Divine love.

From Mevlana's masterpiece Divan-e Kabir

Watch out that you don’t regret the matters of the past.
You are a sufi, so don’t mention the name of the past.
You are the son of the moment during youth and old age,
As long as the present moment doesn’t pass away’.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Eckhart Tolle

Abu Sa'id Ibn Abi'l Khayr ( 967- 1049 )

" The true man of God sits in the midst of his fellow-men, and rises and eats and sleeps and marries and buys and sells and gives and takes in the bazaars and spends the day with other people, and yet never forgets God even for a single moment. "

Oneness



"...Although you may not know it,
   If you love anyone, it is Him you love
   If you turn your head any direction,
   it is toward Him you turn..."

  Fakhruddin Iraqi ( 1213- 1289 )

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Love Generation





" How can you say, there is no Love, when nothing but Love exists. All that you see has appeared because of Love

 All shines from Love
 All pulses with Love
 All flows from Love
 All is Love."
 Fakhruddin Iraqi ( 1213- 1289 )

TAKE OUT THE TRASH

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Have you heard the famous anecdote about Jalaluddin Rumi, a Sufi mystic?

A woman came with a child, and the woman said, “Maulana, Master, I have tried every way and this child won’t listen. He eats too much sugar. And I know now only one way is possible: if you say something to him, he will listen, because he respects you. He does not understand what you are and who you are, but he respects you. And when I told him, ‘Come with me to Maulana,’ he said, ‘Okay, if he says, I will stop.’”

Maulana looked at the child, at his trust. He said, “Wait, come after three weeks.” The woman was puzzled. Such a simple thing. And Maulana is known all over the world. People come from faraway countries to ask him great problems, and he solves them immediately — and such a silly thing. He could have said, “Yes, don’t eat,” and the thing would have been closed. Three weeks?

 After three weeks the mother came with the child, and Maulana said, “Wait three weeks more.”
The mother said, “What is the matter?” He said, “Wait, come after three weeks.”

When they came back, he said to the child, “Okay, listen. Stop eating sugar.” The child said, “Okay, I will stop.”
The mother said, “Now one question arises in my heart — and I will not be at rest. Why did you take six weeks for this?”

Maulana said, “I like sugar myself. So how can I advise this child? That would have been untrue. So for three weeks I tried — and I failed! Then for three weeks I tried again, and now I have succeeded. Now I can say, ‘Please, you can also stop. Look, I am an old man — even I can stop. You are a child, a young child; you can do anything.’”
“Now I can say….”

This is the way of the mystics; this has always been their way. They believe in experience.

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