Replica of the Face of the Statue of Liberty
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"as if Lady Liberty is lying down, sinking into the grass."
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase "each other"
doesn’t make any sense.
From Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks
Freedom is found in that field, where knowledge of right and wrong ends.
In the miraj of the Prophet muhammad (peace be upon him and his family) he came to the Lote Tree,
where knowledge ended :
"The Lote Tree of the farthest boundary," as it is called, is believed to be the farthest anyone can travel in Heaven in their approach to Allah; beyond this none can pass. The following are the Quranic verses from which this term is derived (Quran 53:10–18):
10 So did Allah convey the inspiration to His Servant what He (meant) to convey.
11 The heart in no way falsified that which he saw.
12 Will ye then dispute with him concerning what he saw?
13 For indeed he saw him at a second descent,
14 Near the Lote-tree beyond which none may pass:
15 Near it is the Garden of Abode.
16 Behold, the Lote-tree was shrouded (in mystery unspeakable!)
17 (His) sight never swerved, nor did it go wrong!
18 For truly did he see, of the Signs of his Lord, the Greatest!
source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lote_tree
It would never occur to us that there is something more fulfilling than words.
This is why we are always thinking, planning and rejoicing to convey meaning through words.
Playing with thoughts.
But Beyond Words/Thoughts/Actions what is there?
For an idea repeated becomes a thought which itself becomes an action which ends up in the form of a shape in this world (it is how skyscrapers are built, the idea is born in the head of a designer and lo! a year later you see a building on the exact spot where there was nothing. Magic, isn't it?!).
It is exactly same thing with our thoughts, they exist.
And our mind, yes, is full of them.
Beyond thoughts, of what is right and wrong,
once we have abandoned, them...
...but Impossible!
and what about my conditioning, my truth, my religion i was born into, I KNOW it is TRUE
will the mind say, no rather scream back. It will continue, i have to gauge, to measure, to JUDGE what is right and wrong!
For my safety... and then allow this, whatever it is, to enter.
Yeah, safety of ego. Safety of a world, into which you wish me to be my own prisoner.
Yeah, safety of ego. Safety of a world, into which you wish me to be my own prisoner.
and when the moment of death will come, you will exclaim like Pharaoh did :
[...]and when the drowning overtook the Pharaoh, he exclaimed: "I have come to believe that there is no deity save Him in whom the Children of Israel believe, and I am of the Muslims (those who have submitted themselves wholly to Him). "
Now? – (You surrender now) when before this you always rebelled and were of those engaged in causing disorder and corruption?
(holy quran, 10:90-91)
[...]and when the drowning overtook the Pharaoh, he exclaimed: "I have come to believe that there is no deity save Him in whom the Children of Israel believe, and I am of the Muslims (those who have submitted themselves wholly to Him). "
Now? – (You surrender now) when before this you always rebelled and were of those engaged in causing disorder and corruption?
(holy quran, 10:90-91)
Until and unless, we have NOT surrendered to the Spirit WITHIN,
we are NOT safe.
we are NOT safe.
As for conceptualisation/self-labelisation of surrendering to The Truth has it ever helped you?
La ilaha illa Allah - There is no god but Allah
No. Because it is meant to be LIVED, and not lived according to worldly standards of our mind!
but according to the standard of the Spirit of God...
For it is NOT a concept, why are you trying to conceptualise it? over and over again?
Unity is NOT a concept
It is to be LIVED, to be PROVEN.
Allahu Al Hayy - Allah The Living
While lower feelings such as superiority or envy are meant to separate - there is the other, and there is i, ok and it is dead OBVIOUS i am better than him, no kidding, I AM BETTER than him, i SEE it. And here the mind chatter goes on with all its proof based on my own standards. But never on the standard of the spirit, the standard of Truth, against which my deeds will be measured...
why wait when it is too late, when deeds will be measured against the standard of truth?
why not making headway, by making Truth our standard of action now?
But this is not meant to be done by our actual servile mind. it is dust to do that. It is to be done BY the Grace of God... where to find it? ; ) that is the next and right question...
Till then, in response to our lower attitude to divide, it is sure that,
why wait when it is too late, when deeds will be measured against the standard of truth?
why not making headway, by making Truth our standard of action now?
But this is not meant to be done by our actual servile mind. it is dust to do that. It is to be done BY the Grace of God... where to find it? ; ) that is the next and right question...
Till then, in response to our lower attitude to divide, it is sure that,
Kindness and Love are meant to Unite.
and that is the only Truth for us to embody...
where the phrase "other" makes no more sense,
for from the state of separateness, we enter the one of unity,
where there is only The One.
where the phrase "other" makes no more sense,
for from the state of separateness, we enter the one of unity,
where there is only The One.
and it is not rosy words.
One can only Love, True love, because one knows that we are all One.
Remember ? we are all from the same spirit of God breathed into us, there are no TWO different spirits but ONE.
Like a cell has all of the DNA in it,
so MY spirit like yours has the same material, praises of God within.
It is JUST that our soul, which is a part of that spirit sent on "lower realms" has forgotten that its origin is that very spirit, Glory of God. So...it is veiled from this Glory of God, this very Glory which solve all of our problems, this very Glory to which every elements bents, to which sea split out of Love when it sees It, to which winds take a new turn in their affairs, or to which mountains split asunder, because they ALL saw a Face of Glory that YOU as soul saw not because you are in darkness (yes that very darkness spoken of by all religions) are veiled from your OWN Glory within that you are bearing while being UNAWARE of that treasure within.
When Moses (peace be upon him) split the sea, he had faith, he knew it, and was unveiled from the Existence of the Glory of God within. He had faith.
While mountains and trees and seas split, bend and crumble out of Love while seeing that very Shining Power of That Presence (Ash Shahid), of that Love( Al Wadud)
you are the guy who is unaware of it,
this is why you see in people's eyes dullness and such transfixed eyes as if they just go deeper in their loss of light.
When Moses (peace be upon him) split the sea, he had faith, he knew it, and was unveiled from the Existence of the Glory of God within. He had faith.
While mountains and trees and seas split, bend and crumble out of Love while seeing that very Shining Power of That Presence (Ash Shahid), of that Love( Al Wadud)
you are the guy who is unaware of it,
this is why you see in people's eyes dullness and such transfixed eyes as if they just go deeper in their loss of light.
and till we do not REMEMBER that who we are, whom we belong to - not with a false mind,
but with the true Mind - then, only then, the soul KNOWS it is the spirit and it gains this Peace,
yes this very abode of Peace, As Salam (The Peace).
and the traits of your face soften, and your eyes regain their joy and your face illuminates.
Hence the words of Peace given to those who will enter the Heaven :
Peace! - a word (of salutation) from a Lord Most Merciful!
(holy quran 36:38)
(holy quran 36:38)
So, unless one turns towards meditation in the search of the stillness, emptiness inside.
As any Master did-yes as the prophet did, prior to his prophethood...in the cave of Hira -
we will always be the slave of our mind. And the soul will never know its origin, being veiled to the Glory Within, it will never know Peace nor Joy, it yearns for.
Once the soul is aligned with the Light of the Spirit, The Rope of Allah - The Grace of Allah,
and keep ascending till it may rest in that Garden of Peace
then, there it is said the word is too full to be spoken of.
As the poet, uncovered it, that emptiness is full,
so full, a new kind of fullness, that words fall short.For it is no more their kingdom nor abode.
Indeed, in a world of concepts, words are kings.
When, we are in another world, then who is the King of kings?
This other world, HAS TO BE BEYOND the one we know, live in, build in these very buildings,
it HAS to be a world BEYOND the world of the mind,
it is the world of the Spirit.
It exists, doors are still open for us to enter,
it is the Kingdom of God
where the soul used to be,
where the Lord asks all of us : Am I not Your Lord? and we all answered "Yes, you are!".
It was in that world, that we have to return to
Willingly or unwillingly.
Face brightened in joy, or face covered by gloom.
The first one is the mark of God on people face, the soul having known who it really is, who we really are,
It is the Victory spoken of in the Chapter of "Victory" (Holy Quran - Surah Fatah).
The second group of people are those who will realise that they lost the light inside, given to them in Trust,
the Amanat (The Trust).
Do your soul, right now, is not feeling a sense , an acute sense of emergency?
The Feel of Lying on the grass ... Lying in the Grace?
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