Off with you! Know that the religion of the lover is contrary to other customs: the falsehoods of a Friend are better than the truth and good works. The unthinkable to Him is the present state, the punishment the reward, all his bad deeds are justice, all his slander is equity. Its hardness is soft, Its synagogue is the Ka'ba, a thorn of the rapist of the Heart is sweeter than roses and basil. When it is bitter, it is more excellent than a sugar house; when He comes to you upset, that is sweet kiss and hug. When He says to you, "Oh my God, I'm sick of you!" ”, that is the water of Khidr from the Fountain of Life. When He says "NO!" ", a thousand yes hide themselves inside; in the religion of the unselfish, you are family if you are a stranger." His unbelief is all faith, His stones all coral, His greed all beautiful works, His offences all forgiveness. You can make fun of me and say: 'You have a crooked religion!' I bought the religion of His crooked eyebrow at the price of my spirit. This crooked religion has me drunk! Enough! I will close my lips and continue, O enlightened heart, recite the rest in silence!. Oh God's farce Tabrīzī! Oh Lord! What sugar do you throw! You express a hundred arguments and proofs out of my mouth!
Non-being is the mirror of Absolute Being. There, the radiance of Reality is reflected And grasps its reflection in a second. Unity is manifest in plurality Just as, when you count one, it becomes many. All numbers begin by one, Yet you can never find their end. Since Non-being is pure in itself It is in it that the “hidden treasure” is reflected. Read the Hadith “1 was a hidden treasure” So you can enter this boundless mystery. Non-being is the mirror; the world is the reflection, Man the reflected eye of the Invisible Person. You are this reflected eye; He is the light of the eye. And in this eye, His eye sees His own eye. The world is a man and a man is a world. When you dive into the abyss of this mystery You are at once the seer; the eye that sees, and what is seen. The sacred tradition has affirmed it And demonstrated it “without eyes or ear"- Know, then, the entire universe is a mirror. In each atom nest a hundred flaming suns: Cleave the heart of single drop of water- A hundred pure oceans will gush out. Examine a single grain of dust — A thousand Adams will arise. In its limbs, a fly is like an elephant; In its qualities, a drop of rain is like the Nile. The entire universe is hidden In the heart of a millet grain; The heart of a barleycorn 1s richer than a hundred harvests. In the wing of a fly Streams the ocean of Life; In the pupil of the eye An endless heaven opens. However tiny the grain of the heart may be, The Lord of all the world has made his dwelling there. There the two worlds have been made one: The Tempter manifests God's terrible majesty, And Adam His divine beauty. Contemplate the world as it is, Angels interweave with devils, Satan with Gabriel, Everything is assembled like a seed and its fruit — The unbeliever with the believer; the loyal with the disloyal. Everything is united on the diamond-point of the present — The cycles and seasons, the day, the month, the year; The world without beginning and the world without end. The mission of Jesus coincides with the creation of Adam: From each point of this always-revolving circle Thousands of forms are born. In its turning, every point is Sometimes a center, sometimes a circumference. If you were to remove one atom from its place, The entire universe would crumble in ruin. The All is a vertiginous whirlwind, yet no part of it Find itself beyond the limits of contingency, For Emanation keeps everything in dependence. Everything is desperate From being separated from the All; Everything travels ceaselessly and yet stays in its place; Everything is always in movement and yet always at peace — Never beginning, and never ending. Everything knows its essence and this is why Everything is always racing toward the Throne. Under the veil of every atom is hidden The ravishing beauty of the face of the Beloved!
There is a silence that watches itself. The silence and that which watches it may appear separate but are in fact one.
““There is a voice that doesn’t use words — Listen!””
— Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
In this silence this language is heard. This voice heard. Offering understanding and insight to itself. There is silence and it appears as if nothing stirs. The desire to be or do anything doesn’t arise. There is just this silence speaking to itself, hearing itself. Immediate and alive. It does not stop speaking to itself or hearing itself.
The insights are constant, the understanding deepens. It is seen everything is taken care of and this seclusion needed. Everything feels jagged or not right when an attempt to communicate is made and not needed. The personal self, trying to do something here is not needed. It, this beautiful silence is taking care of itself. It is self-governing, sovereign over all things. Dictating what is and what isn’t needed. It is life. It is this silently silent reality that pervades all things.
I sit and stare engrossed in this silent conversation. I have lost my learning and know nothing and yet this conversation of one makes perfect sense. Constant and yet effortless. This conversation is what is important and when it is done, I will return to “life.” Return to a life which tells me I must act or behave a certain way. And yet I will not return as I left, and I will not be as when I left. Something has changed in me and yet I can’t but help think it was always there. A diamond in the dirt waiting to be discovered. Waiting to be known. I end as I started.
There is a silence that watches itself. The silence and that which watches it may appear separate but are in fact one.
I sometimes forget that I was created for Joy. My mind is too busy. My Heart is too heavy for me to remember that I have been called to dance the Sacred dance of life. I was created to smile To Love To be lifted up And to lift others up. O’ Sacred One Untangle my feet from all that trap Free my soul That we might dance and that our dancing might be infectious.
We have come to be danced not the pretty dance not the pretty pretty, pick me, pick me dance but the claw our way back into the belly of the sacred, sensual animal dance the unhinged, unplugged, cat is out of its box dance the holding the precious moment in the palms of our hands and feet dance
We have come to be danced not the jiffy booby, shake your booty for him dance but the wring the sadness from our skin dance the blow the chip off our shoulder dance the slap the apology from our posture dance
We have come to be danced not the monkey see, monkey do dance one, two dance like you one two three, dance like me dance but the grave robber, tomb stalker tearing scabs & scars open dance the rub the rhythm raw against our souls dance
We have come to be danced not the nice invisible, self conscious shuffle but the matted hair flying, voodoo mama shaman shakin’ ancient bones dance the strip us from our casings, return our wings sharpen our claws & tongues dance the shed dead cells and slip into the luminous skin of love dance
We have come to be danced not the hold our breath and wallow in the shallow end of the floor dance but the meeting of the trinity: the body, breath & beat dance the shout hallelujah from the top of our thighs dance the mother may I? yes you may take 10 giant leaps dance the Olly Olly Oxen Free Free Free dance the everyone can come to our heaven dance
We have come to be danced where the kingdom’s collide in the cathedral of flesh to burn back into the light to unravel, to play, to fly, to pray to root in skin sanctuary We have come to be danced WE HAVE COME
Absolutely and absolutely not is much like everything and nothing being exactly the same thing... Thinglessness... Likewise existence and non-existence are simply a claim of dimensionality and then it's negation and so a negated claim is still a claim...
So neither existence nor non-existence "exist" while simultaneously both existing as an appearance..
likewise to mention or not to mention reality or not reality, nothing or something ..
they all are just a claim and it's negation ..neither actually existing at all, while simultaneously existing infinitely.
And so it is not yes or no, true or false right or wrong but both, beyond not even nothing... So and I use these terms loosely as we must because we are getting into the realm of the impossibility of dualism and the language that it represents..
language being dualistic, it is impossible to talk simultaneously about right and wrong being the same thing ..
or true and false or yes and no real or not real...all of these things are literally the same thing but we have no language for that and so we find ourselves in a five-tier chess match trying to say anything accurately..
it simply is impossible to speak on what we are attempting to speak on using dualistic language... but there is no other choice..
but for some reason the tantalizing tease that dualism brings in the form of language that tickles attempt and courts failure
LOL but then failure and success are also simultaneously identical 😁 while not being either at all...
Everything hangs on the little word here and its sibling now, but I often forget this, keeping busy with my plans, building for a future I cannot know and against worries I cannot finally tame, and yet You wait for me to come home to Your now which is beyond past and future, and return to Your here which is present before beginning and beyond every ending.
and IF …
If I could love as God loves I would not fear the judgment of others or the loss of my very self and would know that God is the one who knows and loves and desires himself and all things and loves me most when I finally let go of trying and simply let myself live love.
Ours is not the work of seeking You here or there where we think You might be, but of opening the heart’s door, and when we do this You cannot resist coming in, since our opening and Your entering are one: You knock and wait, and when we open we find that You were there all along and will not leave us.
“Study quantum physics beyond a cursory level, and you’ll reach the inescapable conclusion that the reason physical particles behave in such a strange way is because they’re not physical at all. We know that everything in the universe is made up of atoms, which are usually depicted as having a big solid nucleus with electrons spinning around it in neat orbits. But when quantum physicists took a closer look, they discovered that there’s actually nothing really there. In fact, they discovered that 99.9999999999996 percent of the atom is literally empty space. The nucleus seems to be solid but is so infinitely small as to effectively not be there. The rest is essentially a physical void. It’s like looking at an invisible tornado-like vortex of energy with infinitely tiny particles seemingly popping into existence one moment and then out the next, with the whole thing being as insubstantial as a puff of smoke. It can’t actually be touched because, as it turns out, there’s literally nothing there to touch. In fact, it has been calculated that if you took the entire population of the Earth, all seven billion of us, and removed all the empty space from all of our combined atoms, the entire human race would fit into a single sugar cube. Now if that doesn’t boggle your mind, then I don’t know what will — so much for a solid world.”
