tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-294397692011-11-07T13:57:51.751-08:00Rumi (1207-1273) is one of the brilliant mystical lights of all times, a Sufi from Persia. His work has had a worldwide influence, but only recently to the English speaking world. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi for an account of his life and writing. Coleman Barks and Michael Greene have produced The Illuminated Rumi, a beautiful book for your library.Dr. Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17301085082342709387noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29439769.post-1150111254237580322006-06-12T04:20:00.000-07:002006-06-12T04:20:54.246-07:00Please enjoy the teaching of Rumi about your spiritual psychotherapy and enlightenment: <br /><br />Tear down this house. A hundred thousand new houses can be built from the transparent yellow gemstone buried underneath it. The only way to get to that is to do the work of demolishing and then digging under the foundation. With that value in hand all the new construction will be done without effort. And anyway, sooner or later this house will fall on its own. The jewel treasure will be uncovered but it won’t be yours then. The buried wealth is your pay for doing the demolition, the pick and shovel work.. If you wait and just let it happen, you’ll bite your hand and say “I didn’t do as I knew I should have.” This is a rented house. You don’t own the deed. You have a lease and you’ve make your living sewing patches on torn clothing. Yet only a few feet underneath are two veins of pure red and bright gold gemstone. Take the pickaxe and pry the foundation . You’ve go to quit this seamstress work. What does the patch-sewing mean, you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other restless ego satisfactions. Rip up one board from the shop floor and look into the basement. You’ll see two glints in the dirt. <br /><br />Rumi, 1250<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29439769-115011125423758032?l=drjoesrumi.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Dr. Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17301085082342709387noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29439769.post-1149852857394753792006-06-09T04:31:00.000-07:002006-06-09T04:34:17.403-07:00“Brother stand the pain; Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose. A particular glows with the universal.”<br />Rumi<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29439769-114985285739475379?l=drjoesrumi.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Dr. Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17301085082342709387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29439769.post-1149777239259421512006-06-08T07:33:00.000-07:002006-06-08T07:33:59.260-07:00This Rumi blogsite will offer selected material from Rumi’s poetry and life story for your awakening.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29439769-114977723925942151?l=drjoesrumi.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Dr. Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17301085082342709387noreply@blogger.com0