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RUMI-nations and other Thoughts
May 29,2007
In India and elsewhere, and in Hinduism and Buddhism there are many paths to Enlightenment.
I am particularly fond of Bhakti, the path of Love and Devotion.
In 2001, I had the privilege of living in India with Sai Baba, and my heart was opened beyond description.
In 13th Century Persia, there lived a now-famous poet, Rumi. He is famous for his love of his friend Shams, his Enlightenment, and his songs, poems and dances of ecstasy.
Rumi's love For Shams and his bereavement for the death of Shams found their expression in an outpouring of music,
dance and lyric poems, Divani Shamsi Tabrizi.
He himself went out searching for Shams and journeyed again to Damascus.
There, he realized:
Why should I seek? I am the same as He.
His essence speaks through me.
I have been looking for myself!
In 2005, after reading Rumi, I went into a deep trance, and experienced the profound Knowing and Love
that he must have had on a daily basis.
What follows (also attached) is best described as my awkward attempt to speak from Rumi, and to reveal the Tao of Self.
It came to the printed page spontaneously and unedited.
To this day, when I read it, I am amazed at it's multiple meanings, the deeper I go into Myself.
Enjoy, Life Blesses US ALL
THE SECRET OF THE MASTER OF NOTHING
Behold Yourself, Son of Man
You who left the light
To illuminate the darkness
Was lost, and became blackened
In the very long night of the mind.
Then,
Awakening in and to the Dream
You/he,
Son of God
Chose to stay in the Void,
Learning to embrace and Love
The darkness that was an illusion.
Until,
Fully en-lightened by the See-ing
Of Nothing
The un-blinding Light of Truth
Was revealed,
Having been long hidden by the veils
Of your mortal
Misunderstanding and fear.
Behold,
It was by doing No-thing in the void
Thus did you learn to
Be, Do and Have Everything,
And, Thus did you awaken
To Your True Nature
And Your Wisdom.
For you saw that You are
Who I AM
The Master of Nothing,
The Know-ER and See-ER of Everything.
And behold:
He thus spoke unto Himself as all mankind:
There is Nothing to DO
Nothing to Learn
Nothing to undo
Nothing to regret
Nothing to Change
Nothing to Force
Nothing to Resist
There is ONLY Love that I AM!
And therefore,
You ARE!
And Always will BE,
One, Love!
For I AM
Th eMaster of No-thing at ALL,
The All-Father of the Darkness
The Everything Mother of the Light.
And all is well and good,
Now that you know this thing.
So Be Still and know
That I AM, You ARE,
And Always Will BE.
Peace is upon you
And all Beings who know this Truth.
And so it is,
And so I AM
The Light and the Way
To Nowhere
In the Sacred Land of Everything.
Amen, Ashe, Ho
Rev. Will Green as a voice
For Rumi and The Tao
Circa 2005