Ruminations

[ornoth]

American Buddhists really like Rumi, the prolific Sufi (Islamic) poet and inspiration for the proverbial dervish dancers.

I can’t count the number of times he’s been cited in the dharma talks I’ve heard and publications I’ve read. So while my reading list was at an ebb, I picked up and read one of Coleman Barks’ Rumi collections, entitled “The

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[iniren]

Interesting thoughts, esp about questions. I've been pondering that a lot recently too, and got some readings on that as well - the power of the questions themselves, the root of them; that simply changing the questions we ask has to power to change our whole experience - even while we still do not have "the answers".