"Just remember........................"

Just remember,
You are the only faithful student you have.

All the others leave eventually.

Have you been making yourself shallow
with making others eminent?

Just remember, when you're in union,
you don't have to fear
that you'll be drained.

The command comes to speak,
and you feel the ocean
moving through you.

Then comes, Be silent,
as when the rain stops,
and the trees in the orchard
begin to draw moisture
up into themselves.
–Rumi

How I pray is breathe.
–Thomas Merton

DEAD
DIED
GONE
TO ALL THAT WAS/IS NOT

THE NOW HERE OF NO WHERE
THE NO WHERE OF NOW HERE
SIMPLY NOWHERE

GONE IS ABILITY TO
SUFFER, LAMENT, OR INJOY.

A PEACE AND BEING
BEYOND THE BEYOND.

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Silent's Songs
v. VIII

“Thinking

Thinking is passing from the false to the true
and seeing the Absolute Whole in the part.
When the idea enters the mind,
it is a reminiscence of a former state,
and passes on to interpretation.

. . . He who sees by illumination
discerns God first in everything.
But he who sees by logic only,
and seeks to prove the necessary,
is bewildered and sometimes travels
backward in a circle, or is imprisoned
in a chain of proofs.
Fool! He seeks the dazzling sun
by the dim light of a candle in the desert.”
― Mahmud Shabistari

“The tavern haunter wanders lonely in a desert
And sees the whole world as a mirage.
The desert is limitless and endless --
No one has seen its beginning or its end,
And even if you wandered in it a hundred years
You would not find yourself, or anyone else.
Those who live there have no feet or heads,
Are neither "believers" nor "unbelievers."
Drunk on the wine of selflessness,
They have given up good and evil alike.
Drunk, without lips or mouth, on Truth
They have thrown away all thoughts of name and fame,
All talk of wonders, visions, spiritual states,
Dreams, secret rooms, lights, miracles.”
― Mahmud Shabistari

Just remember,
You are the only faithful student you have.
All the others leave eventually.
Have you been making yourself shallow
with making others eminent?
Just remember, when you're in union,
you don't have to fear
that you'll be drained.

The command comes to speak,
and you feel the ocean
moving through you.

Then comes, Be silent,
as when the rain stops,
and the trees in the orchard
begin to draw moisture
up into themselves.


–Rumi
Mathnawi, V, 3195-3219)
Coleman Barks version

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What I wear is pants.
What I do is live.

How I pray is breathe.
–Thomas Merton

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DEAD
DIED
GONE
TO ALL THAT WAS/IS NOT

THE NOW HERE OF NO WHERE
THE NO WHERE OF NOW HERE
SIMPLY NOWHERE

GONE IS ABILITY TO
SUFFER, LAMENT, OR INJOY.

A PEACE AND BEING
BEYOND THE BEYOND.

ew
Silent's Songs
v. VIII

Sunday, September 14, 2003
4:09 AM