This place is a dream.... but....
Thank you to Rumi, Banks, and Granger.

Poetry Chaikhana | Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi - Inner Wakefulness

I lost my world, my fame, my mind --
The Sun appeared, and all the shadows ran.
I ran after them, but vanished as I ran --
Light ran after me and hunted me down.

-- from The Way of Passion: A Celebration of Rumi, by Andrew Harvey
Poetry Chaikhana | Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi - I lost my world, my fame, my mind

( I wish! )

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The grapes of my body can only become wine ( Read more... )

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Poetry Chaikhana | Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi - You have fallen in love my dear heart

May i be able to so congratulate my own heart some day!  Amen.

Whoever finds love
beneath hurt and grief
disappears into emptiness
with a thousand new disguises

-- from The Essential Rumi, Translated by Coleman Barks
Poetry Chaikhana | Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi - Whoever finds love

Fasting
by Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi

English version by Coleman Barks

There’s hidden sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness.
We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox
is stuffed full of anything, no music.
If the brain and belly are burning clean
with fasting, every moment a new song comes out of the fire.
The fog clears, and new energy makes you
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
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 The Essential Rumi, Translated by Coleman Barks

Poetry Chaikhana Blog » Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi - Out beyond ideas of ( Read more... )