Becoming The Physician of The Heart

There are many points of the world and there is one Point if God, The Truth. Until you come to this one Point, you are considered as crazy. But once you reach this one Point, you become the physician, the physician of compassion and love, and then you can give treatment. Then you will not look medicine for the patient.

First, your qalb should go and connect to that love, your smile should go and connect to that smile, your water should go and put out that fire, your compassion should go and cure the suffering, your good qualities should go and change the bitterness within him that prevents him from drinking, and your honey should go and change the water of birth.

In this way, the countless thoughts of God should go and change the thoughts and embrace the heart. Do not embrace the body, embrace the heart. The heart should embrace the heart. If you embrace the heart, the illness will leave. You will not need any medicine. If you can first treat the heart, then giving medicine (later) is easy. The medicine will work later. But if you do not treat the heart, the medicine will not work.

If you add milk to boiling water, the milk will not settle; it will splatter from the pot. First you must still the water before pouring in the milk. Then it will remain in the pot. If you plant a seed while the earth is moving, the seed will be swallowed by the earth. But if you first level he earth and then plant the seed, it will stay where you plant it, and will grow and give benefit. The benefit of medicine is like this, the benefit of wisdom is like this, the benefit of good qualities is like this, and the benefit of curing illness is like this. First you must comfort a person and then treat him. First you must become a doctor and a human being. This learning is learned on the inside. We must think of this.

(Bawa Muhaiyyaddeen. God's Psychology: A Sufi Explanation. p 19-20)

Becomes From Within

Possess and there will be loss.
Try and there will be failure.
Struggle and there will be defeat.

To arrive, unloose.
To discover, yield.
To trust, empty.
To receive, honour.

What seems complicated is simple and easily followed
because it is not given from without but becomes from within.[]

By Remaining Still

The gift of the Tao is greater than any gift.
How can it be given?
By remaining still when others cannot control their giving;
By remaining still when others cannot control their taking.
When there are mountains, water flows away from them.
When there are valleys, water flows into them.

It is the moving stillness between man and woman that is their greatest gift to each other.
Trust the stillness.
Be still together and it will move.[]

Beyond Measure

There is something between man and woman that the five senses cannot find.
Listen and there is silence.
Smell and taste… nothing.
Touch emptiness.
Eyes have never seen it.
Where is its height and width and depth and weight?
Words say it is something yet it cannot be measured.
It is given and not earned, received but not taken.
It happens to us and for us and with us, yet it cannot be found.
That which cannot be found cannot be lost.
Without measure it is beyond measure.[]

Practicing For Now

Water does not flow upward to the mountain's separating but downward to the sea's joining.
Man and woman are the downward course of each other.
Flow with each other and move together ever downward toward the sea's joining.
Be moved, be carried, be taken willingly by the primal urge. It is infallible.
From the very beginning it has been practicing for now. []

You Are A Book

You are a book
You have to write, nothing else
You have to write what is said, nothing else
The book should not talk
If it does, it wastes time
You have to write...

All That Is Seen Is A Shadow

All the bodies that we saw were shadows
All that we caught hold were shadows
It is the shadows that suffer
All that is seen is a shadow
Everything we do is a shadow.

Everything we see is a series of dreams
We see the scenes of the earth as shadows
We see the scenes of the earth
and then gather them into our thoughts and memories
They are all shadows
We conduct our lives within the territory of our thoughts,
within the darkness of the mind.

That is where we have those dreams
The dreams of our thoughts
are what we inflicted upon the prophets.
The prophets themselves experienced no pain
They had a different inner body - Light
That Light is made of God's word, God's qualities and God's actions.

Therefore, they had no sorrow
They experienced no pain
They did not say, "God, do You even exist? or are You just deaf?"