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Last Post 08/08/2010 8:03 AM by  Joyce Genis
Rumi Poems
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08/06/2010 3:19 PM
Exasperated and feeling desperate over current circumstances I kept Omraam's words in mind when searching for an answer. Omraam's wisdom goes something like this: You may approach a Holy book with love and expectancy and open it to find wisdom.

I opened the Rumi book in this manner looking for solace and found these word: "The new Dominion told me: Don't try so hard, don't trouble yourself; since by My favor and abundance I am coming to you myself."

These words reminded me that getting stressed out is not the answer. Trusting in God is the answer.
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08/06/2010 9:54 PM

"¿Qué puedo hacer, oh musulmanes?, pues no me reconozoo a mi mismo.
No soy cristiano, ni judío, ni mago, ni musulmán.
No soy del Este, ni del Oeste, ni de la tierra, ni del mar.
No soy de la mina de la Naturaleza, ni de los cielos giratorios.
No soy de la tierra, ni del agua, ni del aire, ni del fuego.
No soy del empíreo, ni del polvo, ni de la existencia, ni de la entidad.
No soy de India, ni de China, ni de Bulgaria, ni de Grecia.
No soy del reino de Irak, ni del país de Jurasán.
No soy de este mundo, ni del próximo, ni del Paraíso, ni del Infierno.
No soy de Adán, ni de Eva, ni del Edén, ni Rizwán.
Mi lugar es el sinlugar, mi señal es la sinseñal.
No tengo cuerpo ni alma, pues pertenesco al alma del Amado.
He desechado la dualidad, he visto que los dos mundos son uno;
Uno busco, Uno conozco, Uno veo, Uno llamo.
Estoy embriagado con la copa del Amor, los dos mundos han desaparecido de mi vida;
no tengo otra cosa que hacer más que el jolgorio y la jarana".

Este es mi poema favorito de Rumí
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08/07/2010 8:46 PM
Every venture one's life may replete
Mathnavi's purpose is the Great Defeat.
Set afire, burning with cleansing heat,
On the anvil, egos ply and beat.
This book, if you open, read, entreat
Your life, a mendicant's, in the street.

I feel Rumi's great passion for purification of life's purpose and desire. This reminds me of the words of Solomon in Lamentations: "All is vanity and vexation" and "There is nothing new under the sun". Inner wisdom and love accelerate in the heart reaching and attuning to the Light.
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08/07/2010 9:23 PM
The place that Solomon made to worship in,
called the Far Mosque, is not built of earth
and water and stone, but of intention and wisdom
and mystical conversation and compassionate action.

"The Far Mosque" in Ch. 17 Solomon Poems, p. 191

Commentary: My own "mosque" is that which is made of what I AM, for me only. It is not made of thoughts or images of any other thing, any other person's thought. No, my mosque speaks only to me that which was made for me alone to hear. Nothing says what I AM better than my own mosque, for who else but myself knows what is best for me?
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08/08/2010 8:03 AM
It's interesting, the poem I desired to post was already posted twice, once by Donna Korth and once by Ronald Dubrawsky. It's called "We Are Now One" and it obviously resonates with many of us. I am posting a poem that comes right after it, which also resonates with me, called "Your Image". This poem is similar to "The Bodhisattva Vision" in our prayer book--it shows the tranformation of darkness into light, of hatred into love. It also shows us that we can transform our greatest faults into our greatest virtues.

Once Your image settled into our hearts,
we found ourselves sitting in Paradise.

All of our worries of Apocalypse and Armageddon,
each turned into the face of a houri and the charm of
a Chinese beauty.

All that men and women fear to look at,
all that stalks them, now became close companions.

The skies became a rose garden and earth a buried treasure;
yet, what sort of "thing" are You that all existence became this way because of You?

Since we saw Him we have been prospering day after day;
the thistle that happened to find Him became a flower bed of certainty.

The unripe grapes turned ripe by the sun and became sugary;
likewise, dark rock turned into a gem.

Many an earth were tranfigured by His charisma;
the sinister turned felicitous out of His hand of fortune.

The darkness of the heart became an opening of the heart;
the waylayer of faith is now a mentor and a leader.



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