Monday, June 23, 2014

ONE MESSAGE





This is a presentation of three poems from my favorite poets who lived during the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries but their poems carry the same message, message of oneness and peace.

  
12th Century
1165 – 1240
Mystic, philosopher, poet, sage Ali Ibn Arabi is one of the world’s great spiritual teachers. He was born into the Moorish culture of Andalusian Spain and died in Damascus. His poetry and extensive writings provide a beautiful exposition of the unity of Being. His wisdom has much to offer us in the modern world in terms of understanding what it means to be human.

Light of Sacredness

The inner space inside
that we call the heart
has become many different
living scenes and stories.

A pasture for sleek gazelles,
a monastery for Christian monks,
a temple with Shiva dancing
a kaaba for pilgrimage.

The tablets of Moses are there,
the Qur’an, the Vedas,
the sutras, and the gospels.

Love is the religion in me.
Whichever way love’s camel goes,
that way becomes my faith,
the source of beauty, and a light
of sacredness over everything.


13th Century
1207 – 1273
Poet, Sufi, and mystic RUMI, known as planetary poet and the first seeker of Truth, was born in Balkh ancient Persia. According to the experts, his words carry a broad range of religious awareness - the meditative silence and no-mind of Zen, the open heart and compassion of Jesus, the stern discipline of Mohammad, the convivial humor of Taoists, the crazy wisdom and bright intelligence of the Jewish and Hassidic masters. He wrote poetry to transform his listeners and readers in order to take them out of themselves and lead them to greater awareness.

Only Breath

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu,
Buddhist, sufi or zen. Not any religion

or cultural system. I am not from the East
or West, not out of the ocean or up

from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not
composed of elements at all. I do not exist,

am not an entity in this world or the next,
did not descend from Adam and Eve or any

origin story. My place is place-less, a trace
of the trace-less. Neither body or soul.

I belong to the beloved, have seen the two
worlds as one and that one call to and know,

first, last, outer, inner, only that
breath breathing human being.


14th Century
1320-1389
The beloved Persian poet, sufi master and mystic HAFIZ was born in Shiraz, Iran and was known as the tongue of the invisible. He came one hundred years after RUMI and in his poems he reveals a God that would never cripple us with guilt or control us with fear. His words are a music that comforts, empowers and enlightens. He invites you to join him in his fantastic applause of life.

I have learned

I
Have
Learned
So much from God
That I can no longer
Call
Myself

A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim
A Buddha, a Jew

The Truth has shared so much of itself
With me

That I can no longer call myself
A man, a woman, an angel,
Or even pure soul.

Love has befriended Hafiz so completely
It had turned to ash
And freed
Me

Of every concept and image
My mind has ever known


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#poets #oneness 

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