this love is beyond

flow like water

 

Those

who do not feel this

love pulling them like a river,

those who do not drink dawn like a cup

of springwater or take in sunset

like supper, those who do not

want to change, let

them sleep.

 

This love

is beyond the study

of theology, that old trickery

and hypocrisy. If you want

to improve your mind

that way, sleep

on.

 

I have

given up on my brain.

I have torn the cloth to shreds

and thrown it away. If you are not

completely naked, wrap your

beautiful robe of words

around you, and

sleep.

 

Jalal al-Din Rumi

the essential rumi

 

all this teaching is just for you

the living expression

 

If

the Way

were about being

a student of something,

it wouldn’t be alive in the world.

It lives because certain people say to 

themselves, “All this teaching is

just for me. I am the living 

expression of

this.”

 

This

isn’t arrogant.

This is humbly keeping the

buddhasLao Tzu, Lalla, Rumi, Suzuki,

BahauddinYuanwu, all of them, alive in the

world. Only you can accomplish this. 

You are the only

one.

 

Wei wu Wei Ching, Chapter 13

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be like a beautifully laid-out park

you are ladybirds and the smell of a garden

 

You should expect grace,

that which makes life more than

manageable, but you look elsewhere,

wanting some delight other

than that.

 

Your conscious being,

with what you’ve been given,

should be like a beautifully laid-out park

with wildflowers and cultivated wonders,

a swift stream with places to sit

and rest beside it.

 

When a grieving person

sees you, he or see should recognize a

refuge, refreshment, a generous house where

one need not bring bread and cheese.

There will be plenty.

 

Bahauddin, father of Rumi

the drowned book