Rumi

I dunno how to explain Tom. It's a personal preference I think. Many here on the forum
respond to her.

I don't feel depth and genuine understanding and embodiment of the teachings like I get
from Rupert or others.

Some people hang out their shingle too early.

YMMV.

Oh interesting Dobro, we posted at almost the same time and seem to get the same vibe from her.

About personality:

	Quote:
	It's many little wars with what is, with a lot of coping mechanisms on top to keep it looking good.

Yeah, she's good.

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dobro wrote:

About personality:

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	It's many little wars with what is, with a lot of coping mechanisms on top to keep it looking good.

Yeah, she's good.

Brutal-zing!

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About physical sensations:

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	Each place where presence and sensation meet is like a wormhole, it's like a doorway to the infinite. There's a marriage there.

Nice. The vast utility of the merely physical sensation.

She resonates with a lot of Adyashanti's approach, but she explores stuff he doesn't.

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Yeah, she's really good: self-enquiry, now, the honesty to meet the movements of your mind, love.

All done gently - that's her delivery style.

Thanks for the link, Ammy. lachen

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I'm too lazy to see if we have this quote already.

	Quote:
	Silence is the language of God, all else is translation.

- Rumi

The New Rule

Quote:

It's the old rule that drunks have to argue
and get into fights.
The lover is just as bad. he falls into a hole.
But down in that hole he finds something shining,
worth more than any amount of money or power.

Last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street.
I took it as a sign to start singing,
falling up into the bowl of sky.
The bowl breaks. Everywhere is falling everywhere.
Nothing else to do.

Here's the new rule: break the wineglass,
and fall toward the glassblower's breath.

Inside this new love, die.
Your way begins on the other side.
Become the sky.
Take an axe to the prison wall.
Escape.
Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.
Do it now.
Your covered with thick cloud.
Slide out the side. Die,
and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign
that you've died.
Your old life was a frantic running
from silence.
The speechless full moon
comes out now.

"I used to want buyers for my words.
Now I wish someone would buy me away from words.

I've made a lot of charmingly profound images,
scenes with Abraham, and Abraham's father, Azar,
who was also famous for icons.

I'm so tired of what I've been doing.

Then one image without form came,
and I quit.

Look for someone else to tend the shop.
I'm out of the image-making business.

Finally I know the freedom
of madness

A random image arrives. I scream,
"Get out!" It disintegrates.

Only love.
Only the holder the flag fits into,
and wind. No flag.

- Rumi

Quote:

Those who don't feel this Love
pulling them like a river,
those who don't drink dawn
like a cup of spring water
or take in sunset like supper,
those who don't 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've given up on my brain.
I've torn the cloth to shreds
and thrown it away.

If you're not completely naked,
wrap your beautiful robe of words
around you,

and sleep.

- Rumi

	Quote:
	"I died from a mineral and plant became, Died from the plant, took a sentient frame; Died from the beast, donned a human dress - When by my dying did I ever grow less..." --Jalaluddin Rumi

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	Quote:
	"But what is that ear inside me that hears my thoughts? Who see with my eyes? What is the soul? I can't stop asking..."

--Rumi

	Quote:
	Now, what shall we call this new sort of gazing-house that has opened in our town where people sit quietly and pour out their glancing like light, like answering?

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