Sufism

Remember with gratitude,
Life is beatitude –
Even its sorrows and pain;
For we’re all in God’s Grace,
Every time, every place, and
Forever (S)HE will reign!
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings

“Thankfulness is the soul of beneficence …
For thankfulness brings you to the place
where the Beloved lives.”
~ Rumi

”The Guest House” ~ by Rumi”

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight . . .

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

~ Jelaluddin Rumi, translation by Coleman Barks

Ron’s Comments on Rumi’s Wisdom:

Dear Friends,

For many people these are dark and divisive times, unprecedented in their lives.

I understand and honor that perspective. But I optimistically intuit current painful world turmoil as dark times before an inevitable dawn; as marking and inspiring an immense “critical mass” evolutionary opportunity for a new era of human harmony and conscious connection with each other and with Nature.

Thus I view what is happening environmentally and politically as disintegration of a world paradigm that has become painfully and harmfully anachronous, to make way for an elevated new age that will bless all life on our precious planet.

So today I have reposted “The Guest House” the above beautiful poem by Persian mystic master Jelaluddin Rumi which metaphorically communicates my foregoing optimistic philosophy.

Let us deeply consider Rumi’s masterful verses as inspiring our realization that these dark times are the dawning of an enlightened new age.

Let us like Rumi remember that regardless of whether we are seemingly experiencing adversity or apparent good fortune in this ever impermanent and dreamlike world of illusory 3D space/time and duality relative reality

“This too will pass.”

 

Hence let us

“Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.”

And so may it be!

Ron Rattner