Kirk, Is that "greed" to be united with the Beloved - or are we compelled?
Mike ________________________________ From: salik888 <novelid...@aol.com> To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Sent: Mon, 13 September, 2010 2:35:23 Subject: [Zen] Rumi -- Jewels of Remembrance The Beloved has blocked every escape ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Friends, the Beloved has blocked every escape: we are lame deer and He a prowling lion. Cornered by a fierce and bloodthirsty lion what is there to do but surrender? This Beloved, like the sun, neither sleeps nor eats: He makes souls sleepless and hungry, saying, "Come, be Me, or one with Me in nature, so when I unveil Myself, you may behold My Face. And if you had not beheld it, how would you have become so distraught? You were earth, and now you long to be quickened with spiritual life." Already the Beloved has bestowed gifts from that world of spacelessness, otherwise why would your spiritual eye keep gazing there? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ay rafiqân râh-hâ-râ bast Yâr âhu-ye langim va U shir-e shekâr Joz keh taslim o rezâ ku châreh-'i dar kaff-e shir-e nari khun khvâreh-'i U na-dârad khvâb o khvor chon âftâb ruh-hâ-râ mi konad bi khvord o khvâb Keh "Biyâ Man bâsh yâ ham ham khu-ye Man tâ be-bini dar tajalli Ru-ye Man Var na-didi chon chonin shaydâ shodi khâk budi tâleb-e ehyâ shodi" Gar ze bi suyet na-dâdast U `alaf cheshm-e jânet chon be-mândast ân taraf -- Mathnawi VI: 576-581 Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance Threshold Books, 1996 Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Mona