When Rumi met Shams and Shams took all of Rumi’s books that he was carrying with him and threw them in the river, at that time Rumi was considered the penultimate scholar of his region. He knew more than anyone at that time or at least that was how the people viewed him. And he was […]
When a baby is born into this world, it has this incredibly soft skin and this amazing newborn smell, other than anything else that exists. You might even say it’s other worldly. And the experience with that baby becomes other worldly. And a baby is capable of taking you to other worlds, other spheres, and
Recently, I was travelling in the East, and I saw a young couple whom I knew and I was seeing them again. I was actually at their marriage, and about five years had passed since their marriage. And I looked at them, and it was evident to me they were a real couple. This was not people who
If we go back into the spools of our memories and think to when we first discovered that there existed within us a yearning to know reality, a yearning to know who we are, an understanding that that which surrounded us and that which we were told was normative was in fact just an accepted
In different phases of our lives, we have different possessions and certain of these possessions become very important to us. When we are a child, we might have a favorite blanket or a favorite toy. As we grow we gather different things, things we need, things we like, things we don’t need, things that are popular,
Once I went to the dentist to get a cavity filled, and they shot me up with Novocain. And my tongue also became numb. Unbeknownst to myself while I was under the Novocain, I had bit a hole in my tongue, not a big one but enough so that when the Novocain wore off, my
Bawa has told us that the world is full of hypnotisms and magnetisms, and what does that mean? What are these hypnotisms and magnetisms. Essentially, when you are going on this path, there are things that pull you off, things that take you away from the straight route, from the straight path. And they do
Somewhere in the progress of civilization, man came to the conclusion that he couldn’t trust other men. And to assist with that understanding, they established police forces. And the purpose of these police forces was to monitor the activities of people to make sure that they didn’t do things that they weren’t supposed to do.
We’re going to do something different today. I’m going to read a song by bawa Muhaiyaddeen from his new book called “Life is a Dream.” It’s called “I Had a Dream,” and it was written in 1946. I had a dream I had a dream about casting off my cares Closing my eyes And sleeping
The way we perceive things has a lot to do with the way we react to things. It’s necessary to have a larger understanding of our place in existence in order to have a broader understanding of existence. The frog who lives in the well has no conception of an ocean, and we can or
