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What If …

What If …

“… The vanishing of Everything from Awareness, including yourself as the one aware, and yet… Awareness continued?…” 

Chuck Surface’s beautiful and profound poem : What If …

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Rumi: The Path of Love

Rumi: The Path of Love

“In Rumi’s poetry, love is the soul of the universe, and the soul knows no bounds … it embraces all people, all countries, and all religions … The goal of Sufism is to know love in all of its glorious forms : and every prophet, every practice, and every form of worship that leads toward love is, in essence, Sufism …” ~ Jonathan Star

Enjoy Ibn Arabi (a sufi philosopher) on Sufism’s “religion of love” … and Rumi’s embracing of “… all people, all countries, and all religions…” … 

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Gangaji: Stop Searching, See What is Here – Right Now!

Gangaji: Stop Searching, See What is Here – Right Now!

Regardless of any conceptions of spiritual study or systems or traditions“here” is not subject to human verification or certification … does not require years of practice or discipline … is simply here – always !… It’s here in the crowded bazaar and … on the forest road … it’s also here in the pristine solitude of utter wilderness … and also in the quiet of the monastery or ashram.

See what Gangaji has to say about this …

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Rumi: Chinese Art And Greek Art

Rumi: Chinese Art And Greek Art

“… Art gives a teasing taste of surrender without the full experience. Beautiful poetry can keep one on the verge of the oceanic annihilation in God. Rumi says, we’ve been walking in the surf holding our robes up, when we should be diving naked under, and deeper under.” 

That is part of Coleman Barks’ contextual prose for the chapter titled : Art as Flirtation with Surrender … indeed in this poem (from that chapter) Rumi gives us a taste of this “surrender” – deeper and deeper … as “practiced” by the Greeks, who are like Sufis, in this regard! … here’s a taste:

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The Greek art is the Sufi way.
They don’t study books of philosophical thought.

They make their loving clearer and clearer.
No wantings, no anger. In that purity
they receive and reflect the images of every moment,
from here, from the stars, from the void.
….

Enjoy … the full poem by clicking …

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Can We Equate Emptiness with Advaita ? (Part 1 of 3)

Can We Equate Emptiness with Advaita ? (Part 1 of 3)

“… Emptiness teachings entail a radical critique of the notions of objective truth and independence. This is part of how one realizes that emptiness is empty. The teachings look at themselves …” 

{Advaita teachings} “… the single reality that is beyond pointing, but which is what the self and everything is made out of …” 

In Part 1 of this 3 part series Greg Goode examines the advaita and emptiness teachings … and talks about their similarities …

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Sacred Whirling, Sufism & Advaita (Part 5 of 5)

Sacred Whirling, Sufism & Advaita (Part 5 of 5)

“… So the divine level is the one mind, the one consciousness, which is also the same thing as who you are …” ~ Philip Jacobs

In the concluding Part 5 of this series, Paula Marvelly and Philip Jacobs, resident Sheikh of the London-based Study Society, continue their conversation on Advaita, Sufism and the turning ceremony of the whirling dervishes …in this final part 5 he takes us deeper into oneness …

Enjoy the conclusion of this 5-part exploration …

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Rabindranath Tagore: Unending Love

Rabindranath Tagore: Unending Love

“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times in life after life, in age after age, forever.

My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,

In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Continue reading to enjoy Tagore’s full poem …

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Rumi: The Laziest Son …

Rumi: The Laziest Son …

Rumi uses many real life situations (stories) to convey deeper wisdom … here’s an entertaining story about “laziness” … that opens with:

As a man is dying he tells the town judge to give all his inheritance to only one of his three sons – the one who is the laziest! …  

There is a fascinating dialog, in the form of a somewhat long Rumi poem, between each of the three sons and the judge to determine who is the laziest …

… there are many gems in this long poem, e.g., the gift of silence, oneness, … and the value of unite vs divide – an issue most apropos to the current times in American society! …

Enjoy the story and it’s many “gems” … find out who is the “laziest?” … and, of course, the deeper meaning of this “laziness” …

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Sacred Whirling, Sufism & Advaita (Part 4 of 5)

Sacred Whirling, Sufism & Advaita (Part 4 of 5)

“… you are already the one consciousness, you already are the unified state but you have to go off and say ‘yes’ to the great adventure of life … you have to leave who you think you are, and via a strange route, you come back and rediscover that principle of unity in a much fuller way.” ~ Philip Jacobs

In Part 4 of this series, Paula Marvelly and Philip Jacobs, resident Sheikh of the London-based Study Society, continue their conversation on Advaita, Sufism and the turning ceremony of the whirling dervishes … this part opens with Philip sharing Rumi’s story about how “we are already the universal consciousness” and then Philip talks about the levels of consciousness …

Enjoy Part 4 of this 5-part exploration …

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Sacred Whirling, Sufism & Advaita (Part 3 of 5)

Sacred Whirling, Sufism & Advaita (Part 3 of 5)

If you are observant, what you will see that when you are five years old and when you are fifty-five years old, although your physical body, subtle body and psyche go through many changes, there’s something which is looking out through your eyes that witnesses all these changes, and this thing never changes at all. It doesn’t grow old, it’s not subject to suffering, it’s not subject to pleasure. ~ Philip Jacobs

In Part 3 of this series, Paula Marvelly and Philip Jacobs, resident Sheikh of the London-based Study Society, continue their conversation on Advaita, Sufism and the turning ceremony of the whirling dervishes … this part focuses on nondualism (or Advaita ) …

Enjoy Part 3 of this 5-part exploration …

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Francis Lucille: Non-Duality & Self Realization

Francis Lucille: Non-Duality & Self Realization

” … Enlightenment is the sudden recognition that non-duality is, has always been, and will always be the reality of our experience. Duality is an illusion. …”

” … Self realization is the subsequent stabilization in the peace, happiness and freedom of our natural state. …” ~ Francis Lucille

Excerpts from About Advaita by Francis Lucille

Explore more through his books and enjoy his free Articles (PDFs) in our library.

And, visit Francis Lucille’s Teacher Page for videos and more ..

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