{"id":46,"date":"2014-08-14T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sacredearthjourneys.ca\/blog\/enrich-your-visit-to-turkey-and-joy-for-life-with-rumi\/"},"modified":"2015-07-03T03:02:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T03:02:30","slug":"enrich-your-visit-to-turkey-and-joy-for-life-with-rumi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sacredearthjourneys.ca\/blog\/enrich-your-visit-to-turkey-and-joy-for-life-with-rumi\/","title":{"rendered":"Enrich Your Visit to Turkey \u2013 and Joy for Life \u2013 with Rumi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">As Phil Cousineau said in our <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacredearthjourneys.ca\/blog\/turkey-is-beckoning-an-interview-with-phil-cousineau\/\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a><\/span> back in April, \u201cRumi is omnipresent in Turkey, his face on the money, his presence in music, on the stage, in movies, and he is a huge source of pride to those who live there\u2026 [not knowing Rumi] would be like going to England and not knowing a thing about Shakespeare.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If you\u2019ll be joining us on our <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacredearthjourneys.ca\/current-tours\/a-sacred-journey-to-turkey-with-phil-cousineau\/tour-description\" target=\"_blank\">journey<\/a><\/span> to Turkey in October this year or are planning to visit another time, learning more about Rumi will most definitely enrich your visit and will encourage more joy and happiness into your life!<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<table style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacredearthjourneys.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Statue-of-Mevlana-attribute-I-Maderibeyza.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sacredearthjourneys.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Statue-of-Mevlana-attribute-I-Maderibeyza.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\"  class=\"img-responsive\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 14px;\">Statue of Mevlana Rumi, photo by I, Maderibeyza<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Spiritual Significance of Rumi<\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Coleman Barks, who has been translating Rumi\u2019s works into accessible, \u201clively American free verse\u201d since the late 1970s perfectly sums up Rumi\u2019s universal spiritual appeal in a piece for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/coleman-barks\/rumi-and-some-new-ways-to_b_777382.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">\u201cRumi very consciously made himself and his poetry a bridge between cultures and between religions. There is nothing exclusivist about him. He includes everyone in his embrace. He was, and is, a healer of whatever might separate us.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">That healing comes from and pushes the reader towards a place of enlightenment, a place of expansion, not only of our own capacity for love but also of our understanding of our relationship with earthly reality.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Love in both Sufism and Rumi\u2019s works is a freeing experience. As Barks said in an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thesunmagazine.org\/issues\/382\/walking_around_in_the_heart?page=1\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a><\/span>\u00a0with Andrew Lawler, \u201c[Love is] beyond our ideas of mentoring or romance or even friendship. It\u2019s a place beyond the synapse of relationship. \u2018Fall in love in such a way that it frees you from any connecting,\u2019 Rumi said. All his poetry is about love as a region, not a relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">To conceive of love on this level, of course, takes daily spiritual work and a process of inner transformation.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacredearthjourneys.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/whirling-dervishes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sacredearthjourneys.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/whirling-dervishes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"273\" border=\"0\"  class=\"img-responsive\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">The Threshold Society, a Foundation rooted within the traditions of Sufism and inspired by the life and work of Mevl\u00e2na Jal\u00e2ludd\u00een Rumi, say this about <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sufism.org\/articles\/16854\" target=\"_blank\">Sufism<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">\u201cSufism is above all about the inner transformation of the human being, resulting in increased capacities of presence, will, and love. Its stock-in-trade is <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">marifa<\/i>, inner knowing, through which the heart is purified\u2026\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">A purified heart, then, enables us to transcend categories, emotions, religions, our own bodies to a place of enlightened being.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Rumi moved with his family to Konya in present-day Turkey when he was a young child and died in his bed there in 1273. The Mevlana Museum in Konya is a natural place of pilgrimage for all those, from all \u2013 and no \u2013 religions, touched by Rumi\u2019s compassion, wisdom, humour and poetic skill. We hope it\u2019s now also on your must-visit list!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: magenta; font-family: inherit;\">This World Which Is Made of Our Love for Emptiness<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: magenta; font-family: inherit;\">Praise to the emptiness that blanks out existence. Existence: <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: magenta; font-family: inherit;\">This place made from our love for that emptiness!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: magenta; font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>Yet somehow comes emptiness, <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: magenta; font-family: inherit;\">this existence goes.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: magenta; font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>Praise to that happening, over and over! <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: magenta; font-family: inherit;\">For years I pulled my own existence out of emptiness.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: magenta; font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>Then one swoop, one swing of the arm, <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: magenta; font-family: inherit;\">that work is over.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: magenta; font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope, <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: magenta; font-family: inherit;\">free of mountainous wanting.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: magenta; font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>The here-and-now mountain is a tiny piece of a piece of straw <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: magenta; font-family: inherit;\">blown off into emptiness.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: magenta; font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>These words I&#8217;m saying so much begin to lose meaning: <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: magenta; font-family: inherit;\">Existence, emptiness, mountain, straw:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: magenta; font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>Words and what they try to say swept <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: magenta; font-family: inherit;\">out the window, down the slant of the roof.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"color: magenta;\">~ Rumi<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Rumi: The Big Red Book<span lang=\"EN-US\"> with translations \u2013 and elucidating notes \u2013 by Coleman Barks was released in 2011 and is available at all good book stores.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Phil Cousineau will be exploring the poetry and influence of Rumi as he guides our group through Turkey, October 10-22, 2014. There are still a few places left on this journey \u2013 visit our <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacredearthjourneys.ca\/current-tours\/a-sacred-journey-to-turkey-with-phil-cousineau\/tour-description\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a><\/span> for full details.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>~ Kim Bridgett<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties>  <o:Revision>0<\/o:Revision>  <o:TotalTime>0<\/o:TotalTime>  <o:Pages>1<\/o:Pages>  <o:Words>614<\/o:Words>  <o:Characters>3503<\/o:Characters>  <o:Company>KB Editing<\/o:Company>  <o:Lines>29<\/o:Lines>  <o:Paragraphs>8<\/o:Paragraphs>  <o:CharactersWithSpaces>4109<\/o:CharactersWithSpaces>  <o:Version>14.0<\/o:Version> <\/o:DocumentProperties> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings>  <o:AllowPNG\/> <\/o:OfficeDocumentSettings><\/xml><![endif]--> <!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument>  <w:View>Normal<\/w:View>  <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>  <w:TrackMoves\/>  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