Even though the beginning seems complex, the beginning of the beginning is simple.
Find the simple beginning.
The greatest arises from the simplest.
At the centre of the largest is the smallest.
Find the greatness of simple.
Be careful of pretense and adornment.
When seeking the important, keep to the simple.
Great is never complicated.
Trust the simple.
Accord and harmony arise from it.
Greatest is always found in least. []
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Trust in God
Losing hope when a slippage occurs is a sign of relying too much on (one's own) deeds.
An ordinary servant of Allah depends on his deeds including his prayers and supplications to enter the Paradise and escape from Allah's punishment whereas a spiritual aspirant (murid) takes his deeds a means to reach Allah. But an enlightened servant (gnostic or 'arif ) will never trust or depend on his deeds. He will neither rejoice over a good thing he did, nor regret a fault that happened to him, because he has dedicated himself to Allah so that his doing or undoing is no more important for him.
Since people belonging to the first and second category ascribe their success or failure to their deeds, they lose hope when they commit a mistake; but those who belong to the third category is so preoccupied with Allah that they are not concerned about the value of their deeds.
Since he does not want his selfish motives to dilute the quality of his worship, the enlightened servant makes Allah the pivot of whatever he does. If achieving any selfish interest, even if it be entering the paradise, becomes the objective of worship, Allah will cease to become the first priority. With the focus shifting from Allah to something lesser such as self, worship loses much of its sheen and becomes a substandard means to scrape through the test of Allah.
If a man rejoices over a good thing he did, it means he is furtively impressed by his calibre and skills which he believes enabled him to do that; but his pleasure is totally misplaced because he is unable to do that without Allah's blessings. If he loses hope when he commits a mistake, it also shows that he attaches too much importance to his deeds. When he himself becomes the focus of his deeds, His worship hardly serves the purpose demanded of it. One who considers each supplication a means to improve the prospect of winning an individual achievement and each mistake as an opportunity squandered, will mourn his mistakes as if he were responsible for it and were to pay the penalty for it. []
An ordinary servant of Allah depends on his deeds including his prayers and supplications to enter the Paradise and escape from Allah's punishment whereas a spiritual aspirant (murid) takes his deeds a means to reach Allah. But an enlightened servant (gnostic or 'arif ) will never trust or depend on his deeds. He will neither rejoice over a good thing he did, nor regret a fault that happened to him, because he has dedicated himself to Allah so that his doing or undoing is no more important for him.
Since people belonging to the first and second category ascribe their success or failure to their deeds, they lose hope when they commit a mistake; but those who belong to the third category is so preoccupied with Allah that they are not concerned about the value of their deeds.
Since he does not want his selfish motives to dilute the quality of his worship, the enlightened servant makes Allah the pivot of whatever he does. If achieving any selfish interest, even if it be entering the paradise, becomes the objective of worship, Allah will cease to become the first priority. With the focus shifting from Allah to something lesser such as self, worship loses much of its sheen and becomes a substandard means to scrape through the test of Allah.
If a man rejoices over a good thing he did, it means he is furtively impressed by his calibre and skills which he believes enabled him to do that; but his pleasure is totally misplaced because he is unable to do that without Allah's blessings. If he loses hope when he commits a mistake, it also shows that he attaches too much importance to his deeds. When he himself becomes the focus of his deeds, His worship hardly serves the purpose demanded of it. One who considers each supplication a means to improve the prospect of winning an individual achievement and each mistake as an opportunity squandered, will mourn his mistakes as if he were responsible for it and were to pay the penalty for it. []
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
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)
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)
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
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.[]
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.[]
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.[]
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. []
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. []
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