TIMELESS(1)

Posts from here on out will be short translations with titles that will hopefully match! To keep the posts in order,they will be numbered in the title. Even though the first 10 posts do not follow the actual dates of publishing, we'll do our best to keep the rest starting with post number 11.

If it is to be any thing other than Shams's words like my own words, or historical data,
 they would be like these lines. So the post numbers are not historical order of his words. 

If there is a picture included in any post,and its yours , Bless You! Anyone may use these posts in any way to extend the Essence of Shams and The Heart of Rumi. Forget about me, OK?

"IF WORDS NEED TO BE SPOKEN, SHOULD THE WHOLE WORLD INSIST THAT I'D BE SILENT. IF I SHOULD BE HUNG BY MY BEARD AND A THOUSAND YEARS PASSED, THE ONE I INTEND TO HEAR MY WORDS SHALL HEAR THEM"

Connection(2)

" They say you need Mohammad or Jesus or Buddha or someone holy to connect to God! I question the integrity of such statements. Does this great Source of life, This Great Creator God not have a simple way of talking to the lonely me directly? Am I not good enough or holy enough? I say go ahead and have your conversations with this Source of life and see for your self!" 

The great Sufi poet of Iran, Hafiz of Shiraz has a similar quote about man's relation to God,
where he too states that man must speak directly to the creator of life "grab him by the balls....."and not accept any middle men for this most important sign of faith!

HUMAN-GODs(3)

"I won't say become God, I shall not blaspheme! But behold all manners of creation, plants, animals, and inanimate forms of life; Even all the mysteries of the cosmos, all this is within the HUMAN FORM! And..what makes this form a human , is not to be found anywhere else in the entire universe!" 

We need to believe this in a much deeper way, when the Christian God or the Muslim God say that "I created you in my own image" it is no different to me than Shams telling us that "all creation was because of and for the sake of this human form"! Somehow we have survived in an evolutionary way progressing toward becoming little gods if you will. Indeed our higher self is always calling to us to Be Our Very Best. I believe we may not have another chance in another form to have such a conscious relation with our origins as we do not in our human form.

A SHAMS/RUMI STORY(4)

Rumi's books long before Shams, were read and admired by all specially in this town of Qounieh ,to which he was the grand shaykh! His father too was a learned scholar of Islamic Laws!

A short while after Shams's arrival in their lives, Rumi's son Mohammad Jallaluldin (who served as the gofer for his dad and Shams while they stayed in that room in "KHALVAT" ) was being observed and guided by Shams without his knowledge. 
One day Shams pulls the boy aside and commands him not to ever read his father's books again! We have to know of course that by then the kid knew he'd best follow this master's order as he was HIS Dad's Master! He went to his father Rumi, and asked for a reason or some relief. Rumi without a blink responded; "If Shams should ask for your arm, you cut it off and give it to him son and ask no more such questions about Shams's orders!" That is how Rumi honored Shams!

That night, Mohammad Jalaluddin dreamed of reading his father's books with eagerness and joy. The following day, Shams stopped the boy and Scolded him for being sneaky about reading his dad's books again! "I told you not to read those books" he said. Jalaluddin had joined the sama'! 

HUMAN FORM(5)

"Times are festive because of you! YOU are the festiveness! Time, manifested here in form so that it, may feel festiveness in the human. That "Holy Night" found its holiness within this human form."

ASK WHY, OFTEN!(6)

"Why waste a lifetime learning about the world? Spend most of your life knowing your essence instead! Knowing God or your essence is hard you say? O'fool you are deep, knowing yourself is deep. Knowing yourself is knowing that God! If there is any depth to discover, it is YOU"!

TENDER AND ROUGH(7)

 "My reason for meanness and harsh words is to relieve the pressure, left inside me. Not to say that my patience lacks, or forbearance not being of my real qualities".(119 on himself) "I have no relations with sorrow and grief, these are for the masses! My beingness is all JOY inside; why then must I allow negative forces from the outside hinder that?"  A loud word or a rough action,  and all the pressure is released!" YIN-YANG make a perfect circle, beauty is ugly turned around!

Nothing comes from nothing and is naught once again. Shams was famous for being both sweet and sour if you will. "I will hurt the feelings of those I care for the most, if they accept that, then I will consider their discipleship"

MASTER(8)

                                                                           


"What then is the  meaning of a MASTER? Is Master the one with the most possessions and control over townships? Is Master the one with the strongest army?
I tell you Master is the one who is the master of his desires!
Master of his speech, Master of his silence, his bitterness in place and his sweetness timely! Such a man not being a servant to these, is a Master in truth! Else his qualities become his burden to bear."

I have heard this message in another place as: "He who has mastered his carnal self, he has mastered life" The amount of discipline needed to bring the necessary changes at any given crossroad of our lives, is the very stuff of masterhood.The lines between what to do or not to do become greatly diminished as one approaches the age of wisdom (independent of age) acquiring a true state of choice with which comes great responsibility!

TO BELIEVE (9)

"In our ways no one becomes a true believer at once. The seeker believes, then disbelieves, and comes back again to believe!

Each time in his return to "the way" he loses another layer of the carnal self until such time as to become "whole" in all ways."

Seeking perfection goes in stages of self esteem verses flow of events unfolding. Yet we measure success with increased wisdom and mindfulness not in years or medals. Nothing worth having for life is ever easy. 

SUFI WAY OF LOVE(10) تصوف عشق

"Boojanib( a teacher) sitting in solitude, he was deep in contemplation and prayerful. It came to him:'Tis you shall not solve unless you see that shaykh', Boojanib again asked 'But how shall I find the Shaykh?' and again the answer came 'you cannot see him, go be with the people, seek all and be in need, with the masses assimilate and be seen, then, perhaps the Shaykh will see you'!"

The sufi way of love and life are in the experience of the act of living a day to day life, in with the people and not alone with some rocks and buildings where no one sees you and no feelings enter when the buttons get pushed. If I am actively being in the "bazar" as it were, The Living Master(whatever our interpretation of Master) will see me, I don't have to be looking hard, just be in need of that love connection to all sentient beings! Through pain and pleasure, life and death!  

In shams's way of being, every event is a coded message of how to become the
 "whole human, انسان کامل ) , growing in wisdom results in contentment beyond words. 

" A monk was in the mountains in solitude, I say he was rock not human, to be wholly human we need to be with other humans who have joy, and suffering, who have love to give and need to feel loved. What business is it of man and rocks? Mingle in with the humans and be uniquely alone!

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