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To: tariqas@europe.std.com From: nagasiva@luckymojo.com (haramullah) Subject: The Heart and Mind of Practice 50000404 VIom assalam alaykum, my kin. a correspondent wrote: > ...All this speculation about practices, lata'if, and states is just > that. It is enormously entertaining to the mind but does not > advance one's spiritual station one iota and is ultimately a > distraction. It is not the substance of the path. Even if the > words correctly describe an aspect of the spiritual path, it is > still only data and not the least bit useful to one's spiritual > unfoldment, because the spiritual path is not about how the mind > understands things or how the emotions feel things. O Beloved, Most Compassionate How my heart yearns for your perfection! How my mind reels at the very thought of you! I watch so carefully for your helpful guidance I listen so carefully for your whispered words What is this "spirituality" of which men speak If it does not show itself in word and deed? Shall I cut my mind off at the root because You are not contained by the intellectual? Shall I close off my heart because You are not constrained to the emotional? And yet the profundity of generous kindness Has me confounded and disturbed The awe I feel in the heart of true mystery Has me befuddled and stricken dumb O Beloved, Most Compassionate Let my mouth be informed by Your mouth! Let my heart be informed by Your heart! Allow the hints of love and wisdom Which You see fit to pass to this lowly one Shine forth in a glorious reflection Of Your beauty and perfect knowledge. peace be with you, haramullah
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