The essential Rumi
Jelaluddin Rumi was born in the year 1207 and until the age of thirty-seven was a brilliant scholar and popular teacher. But his life changed forever when he met the powerful wandering dervish, Shams of Tabriz, of whom Rumi said, "What I had thought of before as God, I met today in a human being." F...
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Edison, NJ :
Castle Books,
[1997]
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Table of Contents:
- On Rumi
- Note on the organization of this book
- Tavern: Whoever brought me here will have to take me home
- Bewilderment: I have five things to say
- Emptiness and silence: Night air
- Spring giddiness: Stand in the wake of this chattering and grow airy
- Feeling separation: Don't come near me
- Controlling the desire-body: How did you kill your rooster, Husam?
- Sohbet: Meetings on the riverbank
- Being a lover: Sunrise ruby
- Pickaxe: Getting to the treasure beneath the foundation
- Art as flirtation with surrender: Wanting new silk harp strings
- Union: Gnats inside the wind
- Sheikh: I have such a teacher
- Recognizing elegance: Your reasonable father
- Howling necessity: Cry out in your weakness
- Teaching stories: How the unseen world works
- Rough metaphors: More teaching stories
- Solomon poems: Far mosque
- Three fish: Gamble everything for love
- Jesus poems: Population of the world
- In Baghdad, dreaming of Cairo: More teaching stories
- Beginning and end: Stories that frame the Mathnawi
- Green ears everywhere: Children running through
- Being woven: Communal practice
- Wished-for song: Secret practices
- Majesty: This we have now
- Evolutionary intelligence: Say I am you
- Turn: Dance in your blood
- Note on these translations and a few recipes.
