First of all, I love Rumi. I received a book of Rumi’s quotations as a gift and I immediately fell in love with it. It has continually been inspirational and it never lets me down.
This particular passage was just as amazing as the others I’ve read of his. The first thing that cracked me up was the embryo conversation. That was just hilarious! As funny as it was, though, it brought up a really good point. “I only know what I’ve experienced. You must be hallucinated.” I’m taking a philosophy class and we’ve talked about this concept for a while now. All of us only know what we experience for ourselves and we will never know what anyone else experiences. We can describe what we feel, think, see, hear, but it will never be the same as experiencing it ourselves.
Another passage that I loved was passage about the person knocking at the Friend’s door. I literally laughed out loud. “There is no place for raw meat at this table.” What does that even mean? It reminded me of meat-wad from Aqua Teen Hunger Force. (Does anyone know what I’m talking about?) On a serious note, though, it was explained with “Nothing but the fire of separation can change hypocrisy and ego.” So, the man, completely cooked (not baked), returned to the Friend and was accepted. He was accepted as “my Self” and it told us that when we can pass through the fire of separation and let go of material things and unnecessary emotions we can be one with the Friend. And it doesn’t matter if the Friend is God or enlightenment, it is still the same!
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First of all, I just saw Aqua Teen Hunger Force for the first time a few weeks ago. Haha, meat-wad is so weird! With that in mind, it does make the raw meat at the table more funny!
ReplyDeleteMore seriously... I took a philosophy class before too. It is weird to think about what we experience may be completely different from what others experience. Two people may say they feel the same thing but you can never truly know what it is like for that other person. With that in mind, it makes any religion all the more complicated. Having people hear the same thing and then interpreting it differently makes religion more complex.
I wrote my blog about Rumi as well. He was kinda funny, yet very insightful. I liked the embryo and experience analogy, because it is so relevant to life. Yeah, and I agree that we can describe our experiences all we want, but no one will truly understand until they experience it for themselves.... Ha ha. The knocking on the friend's door analogy was a bit crazy. Didn't understand that one at all!
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