The more we learn,
The more things are plowed into our minds;
The more we follow the Dao,
The more things are taken out of our minds.
Laozi, translation of Lok Sang Ho, ch. 48.
Ramadhān Mubārak!
I traveled to village Asb-bavāni (northwest of Iran) in the last week for seek of jam’īya. I was couldn’t prepare myself for Ramadan without this journey.
Jam’īya is an important term for Sufis that can translate as “peace of mind”. Not only in Sufism, but according to all esoteric orders, purify of reason is in a relationship with forgetting reason and attending to intellect and, in the higher degree, connecting with the universal Intellect.
Photographer: Don Hong-OaiDon
I think tafraqa (rambling of mind) is nearer to us than jam’īya in modern life with varied mechanic and electronic forms, and for the very reason mountains and virgin nature, in which tools of tafraqa is lesser, are good backrests for jam’īya.
Your disheveled hair is cause of our jam’īya;
Then it must be more disheveled.
Merāt ul-’uŝāq.
September 6, 2008 at 3:22 pm |
Ramadan Mubarak, Dear Brother, to you and your family and all the darvishes of Iran
My love and prayers are with you and with Master.
Ya Haqq!