Peace for the Soul2024-03-28T16:20:44Zbridget ormanhttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/bridgetormanhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1772179762?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/forum/topic/listForContributor?groupUrl=jalal-ad-din-ar-rumi&user=2w2r6emivsuwl&feed=yes&xn_auth=noRumi ~ poem ~tag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2023-06-10:5143044:Topic:4565442023-06-10T17:41:52.434Zbridget ormanhttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/bridgetorman
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<p style="text-align: center;">The beginning of the universe is confusion, tumult.<br></br> The end is a shake and a quake.<br></br> Love and gratitude are the same as complaints.<br></br> Peace and comfort go hand-in-hand<br></br> With jolts and shakes.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The thorn and rose go together.…<br></br></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">The beginning of the universe is confusion, tumult.<br/> The end is a shake and a quake.<br/> Love and gratitude are the same as complaints.<br/> Peace and comfort go hand-in-hand<br/> With jolts and shakes.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The thorn and rose go together.<br/> When a jeweler weighs gold,<br/> He puts barley as a weight on the other side of the scale.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">~ Rumi <a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/11645996892?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/11645996892?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="16"/></a></p>
<p></p> Break free!tag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2023-06-10:5143044:Topic:4567102023-06-10T16:18:07.388Zbridget ormanhttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/bridgetorman
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/11642621881?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/11642621881?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="545"></img></a> <span class="font-size-1">Ai Lan</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">You are that blessed soul who<br></br> belongs to the garden of paradise,<br></br> is it fair to let yourself<br></br> fall apart in a shattered house?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">You are the bird of happiness<br></br> in the magic of existence,…<br></br></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">You are that blessed soul who<br/> belongs to the garden of paradise,<br/> is it fair to let yourself<br/> fall apart in a shattered house?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">You are the bird of happiness<br/> in the magic of existence,<br/> what a pity! Why you let<br/> yourself be chained and caged?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Break free!<br/> Break free from this dark prison<br/> called material world,<br/> soon you will see<br/> you are the sage and the fountain of life.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">~ Rumi</span> <a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/11642575654?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/11642575654?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="16"/></a></p>
<p></p> This soul comes once,tag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2023-06-04:5143044:Topic:4562772023-06-04T00:04:03.557Zbridget ormanhttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/bridgetorman
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<p style="text-align: center;">This soul comes once,<br></br> the body a thousand times.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I am everything,<br></br> coming in, going out.<br></br> How can I speak of another?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Like a wave my body is here and gone.<br></br> Look closely -<br></br> a million waves,<br></br> one sea.…</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">This soul comes once,<br/> the body a thousand times.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I am everything,<br/> coming in, going out.<br/> How can I speak of another?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Like a wave my body is here and gone.<br/> Look closely -<br/> a million waves,<br/> one sea.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The soul comes once,<br/> this body a thousand times.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Why talk of the soul? Why mention the body when both are myself?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">With much effort I have stayed on this path,<br/> and now this body<br/> finds a great soul within it.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><br/> <span style="font-size: 8pt;">Rumi, A Garden Beyond Paradise</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 8pt;">Translated by Jonathan Starr</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"></p> "The wound is the place where the Light enters you"tag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2022-07-04:5143044:Topic:3881182022-07-04T22:20:22.935Zbridget ormanhttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/bridgetorman
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<p>“I said: what about my eyes?<br></br> He said: Keep them on the road.</p>
<p>I said: What about my passion?<br></br> He said: Keep it burning.</p>
<p>I said: What about my heart?<br></br> He said: Tell me what you hold inside it?</p>
<p>I said: Pain and sorrow.<br></br> He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters…</p>
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<p>“I said: what about my eyes?<br/> He said: Keep them on the road.</p>
<p>I said: What about my passion?<br/> He said: Keep it burning.</p>
<p>I said: What about my heart?<br/> He said: Tell me what you hold inside it?</p>
<p>I said: Pain and sorrow.<br/> He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”</p>
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<p>― Rumi</p>
<p></p> shams of tabriztag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2021-03-19:5143044:Topic:3688662021-03-19T13:01:49.906Zbridget ormanhttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/bridgetorman
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<p> Shams of Tabriz was known as a vagabond beggar. with no home he was a wanderer. as a young man he was found to be worthy to receive the gift of gifts from the master of his day.</p>
<p>and he was told at that time that he himself would reveal the gift to just one person in his lifetime, one influential person.</p>
<p>so Shams travelled and sat outside of many courts and palaces and influential peoples homes looking to find the one that was worthy to receive the gift from him. he…</p>
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<p> Shams of Tabriz was known as a vagabond beggar. with no home he was a wanderer. as a young man he was found to be worthy to receive the gift of gifts from the master of his day.</p>
<p>and he was told at that time that he himself would reveal the gift to just one person in his lifetime, one influential person.</p>
<p>so Shams travelled and sat outside of many courts and palaces and influential peoples homes looking to find the one that was worthy to receive the gift from him. he was steadfast, uncompromising and quite direct and blunt in his approach. Years went by with no interest shown from anyone he came across or deigned to speak with.</p>
<p>After no less than 25 years of wandering travel he came to the garden of a renowned professor.</p>
<p>a man whose own father had been equally renowned as a professor before him. a man that had many students who came from far away to study under him. a man called Rumi.</p>
<p>Shams arrived in the garden at night with a bright moon in the sky and sat down next to a small lake surrounded by trees and bushes. at the time Rumi was working late in the night writing his lifes work when he chose to take a break and visit his garden for air and repose.</p>
<p>when discovering Shams they began to talk and Rumi became excited as the discussion made him want to show Shams his writings which he had been working on for years. he left and returned with a large pile of papers all full of words.</p>
<p>Shams took them from him and without looking threw them high in the air over the lake. they landed in the water, floated, sank and were destroyed. Rumi was aghast but Shams calmed him by saying he would show him that, about which he was trying to write. and so they retired to the house </p>
<p>Days went by and there was no sign of any comings or goings. Students became increasingly upset from feeling deprived of their professor. Rumour had it that he was kidnapped and held against his will by a beggar. they banged on the door but there was no answer.</p>
<p>After many days had passed the doors flew open and Rumi emerged whirling and dancing in the front of his home. Shams followed quietly behind. In the following weeks they were continually in each others company and the students became jealous, angry and upset saying amongst themselves that Rumi had been caught in a spell caste by the beggar. </p>
<p>Now a time came when the students planned to get rid of Shams and unbeknown to Rumi they seized him. they killed him and threw his body into a deep dry well..... (to be continued)</p> Gazing at the Lighttag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2021-01-17:5143044:Topic:3599422021-01-17T13:49:42.164Zbridget ormanhttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/bridgetorman
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lesson 16: Gazing at the Light</strong></p>
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<p><br></br> The lamps are different,<br></br> But the Light is the same.<br></br> So many garish lamps in the dying brain's lamp-show,<br></br> Forget about them.<br></br> Concentrate on the essence, concentrate on the Light.<br></br> In lucid bliss, calmly…</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lesson 16: Gazing at the Light</strong></p>
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<p><br/> The lamps are different,<br/> But the Light is the same.<br/> So many garish lamps in the dying brain's lamp-show,<br/> Forget about them.<br/> Concentrate on the essence, concentrate on the Light.<br/> In lucid bliss, calmly smoking off its own holy fire,<br/> The Light streams towards you from all things,<br/> All people, all possible permutations of good, evil, thought, passion.<br/> The lamps are different,<br/> but the Light is the same.<br/> One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind,<br/> Endlessly emanating all things.<br/> One turning and burning diamond,<br/> One, one, one.<br/> Ground yourself, strip yourself down,<br/> To blind loving silence.<br/> Stay there, until you see<br/> You are gazing at the Light<br/> With its own ageless eyes.</p>
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<p><em>- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi<br/></em></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>(Translated by Andrew Harvey from <a href="http://www.dailyom.com/cgi-bin/courses/courseoverview.cgi?cid=35" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Year of Rumi</a>)</em></span></p>
<p></p> The Goal Is Onetag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2021-01-16:5143044:Topic:3590922021-01-16T12:09:17.135Zbridget ormanhttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/bridgetorman
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lesson 15: The Goal Is One</strong></p>
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<p><br></br> There are a myriad different ways to search, but the object of the search is always the same. Don't you see that the roads to Mecca are all different? One comes from Byzantium, another from Syria, still others wind through land or across the…</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lesson 15: The Goal Is One</strong></p>
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<p><br/> There are a myriad different ways to search, but the object of the search is always the same. Don't you see that the roads to Mecca are all different? One comes from Byzantium, another from Syria, still others wind through land or across the sea. The roads are different; the goal is one.</p>
<p><br/> <br/> <em>- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi<br/></em></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>(Translated by Andrew Harvey from <a href="http://www.dailyom.com/cgi-bin/courses/courseoverview.cgi?cid=35" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Year of Rumi</a>)</em></span></p>
<p></p> Generations Have Passedtag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2021-01-15:5143044:Topic:3585572021-01-15T14:53:57.702Zbridget ormanhttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/bridgetorman
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lesson 14: Generations Have Passed</strong></p>
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<p><br></br> Generations have passed and this is a new generation. The moon is always the same, only the water changes. Justice remains the same justice, learning the same learning, as people and nations change.</p>
<p>Generations have passed; the…</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lesson 14: Generations Have Passed</strong></p>
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<p><br/> Generations have passed and this is a new generation. The moon is always the same, only the water changes. Justice remains the same justice, learning the same learning, as people and nations change.</p>
<p>Generations have passed; the true meanings stay constant and are eternal. The water in the stream may have changed a million times – the reflection of the moon and stars stays the same.</p>
<p><br/> <br/> <em>- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi<br/></em></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>(Translated by Andrew Harvey from <a href="http://www.dailyom.com/cgi-bin/courses/courseoverview.cgi?cid=35" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Year of Rumi</a>)</em></span></p>
<p></p> Eternal Joytag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2021-01-14:5143044:Topic:3573942021-01-14T10:24:42.071Zbridget ormanhttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/bridgetorman
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lesson 13: Eternal Joy</strong></p>
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<p><br></br> Speculation and grief find no life or support<br></br> Here where wine dances and soul-music plays.<br></br> O my heart-friends, taste deep of Eternal Joy!<br></br> Like flowers and grasses, bow your lips to the stream.</p>
<p><br></br> <br></br> <em>- Jalal-ud-Din…</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lesson 13: Eternal Joy</strong></p>
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<p><br/> Speculation and grief find no life or support<br/> Here where wine dances and soul-music plays.<br/> O my heart-friends, taste deep of Eternal Joy!<br/> Like flowers and grasses, bow your lips to the stream.</p>
<p><br/> <br/> <em>- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi<br/></em></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>(Translated by Andrew Harvey from <a href="http://www.dailyom.com/cgi-bin/courses/courseoverview.cgi?cid=35" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Year of Rumi</a>)</em></span></p>
<p></p> The Hearttag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2021-01-13:5143044:Topic:3567692021-01-13T11:00:59.133Zbridget ormanhttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/bridgetorman
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lesson 12: The Heart</strong></p>
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<p><br></br> All of created existence is drunk on the Heart<br></br> The entire cosmos is a toy in Its hands.<br></br> All the nine levels of the spheres of Heaven<br></br> Are only two short steps for the Heart.</p>
<p><br></br> <br></br> <em>- Jalal-ud-Din…</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lesson 12: The Heart</strong></p>
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<p><br/> All of created existence is drunk on the Heart<br/> The entire cosmos is a toy in Its hands.<br/> All the nine levels of the spheres of Heaven<br/> Are only two short steps for the Heart.</p>
<p><br/> <br/> <em>- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi<br/></em></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>(Translated by Andrew Harvey from <a href="http://www.dailyom.com/cgi-bin/courses/courseoverview.cgi?cid=35" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Year of Rumi</a>)</em></span></p>
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