Have a life of fire,
Then burn with him. "
-Moravi? Jalaluddin? Rumi
I first read this poem in an article by Wu Zhihong entitled "Through love, we become ourselves". It is through this article that I learned about the Persian poet Rumi, his works and his extraordinary, magnificent and mysterious life.
Rumi is a mystic of Sufi school and is regarded as a great spiritual teacher of mankind. His poems have a wide range of themes and profound meanings, and subtle things in real life can become images in his poems. Of course, the greatest value of Rumi's poems does not stop there. Although his poems are rooted in the soil of the real world, they are full of flowers of the soul, and his poems are the combination of human nature and divinity. As the spiritual leader of Sufi school, he often expresses love and people's desire for love with fiery and sincere words in his poems.
Rumi believes that the best partner should be able to inspire the divinity in people's hearts, but he does not reject the desire of the body, and even talks about his views on sex in his poems without hesitation. Of course, these poems not only have no sense of filth, but also make readers feel that Rumi is a frank, cordial and trustworthy friend, rather than an unattainable "God-like existence". These seemingly repetitive words actually have the same directionality, which is to guide people to pay more attention to their own mind, divinity and personal growth.
"Although the caliph is incompetent, he is a real man. True masculinity is the ability to restrain sensory enjoyment. " Although Rumi never belittles people's desire for a normal life, he respects those who restrain too much desire and pay attention to spiritual practice.
Rumi warned people to guard the "secret of inner beauty", no matter how bad the external environment is, don't forget the care for the soul and the pursuit of wisdom.
In many of Rumi's poems, a man named Siam is mentioned. This man and Rumi lived at the same time. He is Rumi's spiritual lover and ascetic. According to a Sufi tradition, it is not complete until you find a soul lover. Siam, like Rumi, has his own wife and children. But after they met, they became soul mates.
From a secular point of view, it is really messy for two big men to claim that they are each other's "partners". However, the emotion between Rumi and Siam is not a physical relationship, but a spiritual and spiritual connection. They believe that people should selflessly devote themselves to love and love, and experience, feel and create in love.
It sounds incredible, but Rumi believes that only those wise men who seem crazy in words and deeds but are ecstatic because of their current consciousness are the purest and most sacred people. Those who are addicted to pleasure are nothing more than people riding donkeys, "but ask the donkey where to go"! If you can't understand your heart, why indulge in the material world and spend your precious life?
Everyone in the world is trying to find it, and Rumi believes that the happiness of inner self is people's "real spontaneous energy in life", so we should always listen to inner masculinity and let go of unnecessary desires and happiness.
Rumi lived in an era of frequent wars. He expressed his views in the poem:
"All wars and conflicts between people will happen,
It is because of the name dispute. "
How stupid it is to be infatuated with fame! In his poems, Rumi tells people through fables and metaphors that "we should transcend any obsession with names". Whether it is a tree, a sun or an ocean, it all comes from "a perfect wisdom". Without this wisdom, it is difficult for people to achieve the unity of self-mind and divinity.
From this, we can think that although there are different schools of practice, as the saying goes, all roads lead to the same goal, and every practitioner will eventually realize the improvement of life realm by awakening his mind. In poetry, it is emphasized not to cling to the differences in names, but to express them in practice, not to cling to the differences in spiritual sects, and not to shed blood because of the differences in opinions.
It can be seen that Rumi is a wise man who really cares about world life, and his love for everything is the core of his practice. At the same time, Rumi's poems also focus on describing a "non-binary opposition world". He said that the best prayer should be like this: "Lord, help us to merge the two worlds into one."
Why are there so many disputes in the world? Rumi thinks:
"When we pass through desire, anger.
Or a religious egoism.
Look with both eyes. "
It is easy to drag yourself into the persistence of binary opposition. It's like "a paid judge can't tell who the victim is."
When people forget the prejudice between sects, put down their obsession with fame and become lovers, partners and brothers, they can change from mutual hatred to shaking hands and making peace. "Love is an unnecessary virtue", that's what Rumi wants to say!