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Very well said @Emerald , thank you for putting it into a better approach. I appreciate your work, and I respect your efforts a lot. I've just watched your shadow video and I found it very helpful and efficient. I have this question for you, these guys have a Emerald to reach and to be educated & cured by. What about the ones they interacted thus most likely they damaged? For example, what would you do when you see your kids tending to harm others?

I recommend you guys to read this thread as "the other one" who is being talked about. Very heart breaking. Very much so. Interestingly people who are talking too much about unconditional love, are mostly the ones who is being the most discriminative and judgemental, and incapable of loving. If you hurt the other one's feelings, how in the earth, you'll experience love? How? Oh this girl that I'm hanging out with is kind of a piece of shit, but should I really keep it on the side?/ oh that reaction he/she gave was a total red flag.. you are comfortably judging those ones.. excuse me, so who the fuck do you think you guys are?? Maybe rather than analyzing how you project your parts into the other and 'love' 'your reflections'; practice 'understanding' why and where 'the other one's' reactions come from; because when you start to 'see' and 'understand' background of the other person/people, you cannot do anything but love them. If we consider for a moment why this dame loving the other one would matter; that; I'd like to tell you.. it will because lead you to love 'yourself' fully, so that you'll feel complete and whole, and feel comfortable in your skin. So you won't be so stressed and strict about those 5 other people 'which' will enhance your growth, you'll be worry-free; then you can embrace the whole 'world' or at least what universe brings in front of you. This thread somehow broke my heart into pieces.

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One last one: "Sometimes it's little bit of both!" @Leo Gura I hope I'm not crossing the line; there was such a dancing energy in it, I couldn't help it. InShot_20171006_214042618.mp4 * if I had better skills for designing such images, I would have liked to make a little dance routine, putting all of these images together, under the title of "the dance of the consciousness"

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While training your physical vehicle, you are intoxicating your mind, it's not that much of a healthy choice for your training. I always use nature and very empty gyms if necessary. I recommend that.

@Harry Howard congrats on such an early start to what matters the most in life; that's a valuable gift of life to you. It's not one way or another, you need to learn and master both ways equally. Very superficial daily basis of life is also an important compound of your journey into enlightenment. How to balance the work between the components and the timing are the life time topics which will depend on very different variables which will be also in evolution of their own sort, but the most definer variable will be knowing and understanding yourself in different layers.

But Leo, it would be visual arts! Your female audience would have been the most appreciated:D

Oh! I didn't know that such a thing happened.. Leo, I'm so glad that you are okay.. sending my prayers to the ones who are affected..

Ahahhah!

I researched a bit to see if there is a better translation in internet than I could do.. but no.. I'll try to explain it. According to Rumi the night you die (and the moment you are put in your grave, as in tradition) is your moment of your "wedding night" meaning it's your grand moment of meeting/reuniting with your beloved in a very deep intimate sensual way. That is a very very celebratory moment which washes out all of your long - long yearningly awaitings for your deep desirous love. In Eastern literature, one of the common themes about love is: those two lovers awaiting each other for too long with a deep desire and yearning for each other. That also refers to the eastern way of expressing sexuality. In this cultural form, those who have this attraction to each other can not just get together and have sexual intimacy as they wish; the social norm is quite strict and above all of the individuals' will, which even doesn't exclude the men in power positions. Of course there is a lot of stories and facts where this rule is broken, but still there is this clear intensity and presence of this cultural impact on that society. (Of course here I'm referring to mostly early centuries of the culture more than modern times of it.. but even in modern expressions of it as an art form you will clearly find the related motifs which can help you to understand the background colors of it) So, when you look at the any expressions about love in the literature; you will smell this strong deep sensual desire in some format. When these two people start to feel something to each other, their medium will be thick and not be allowing their sensations freely flow into each other. This type of limitation where the both individuals have feelings and primal urges, will be clearly creating an inner pressure, blockage and frustrations where at the same time there is this joy and the sweet nectar of love in the air. Through out the way of the culture functions these two lovers has to wait till they can get together. So in languages which are related these motifs -like my native language, Turkish- you will find some verbs to say 'meet' which will mean "to meet to each other finally / or uniting finally at the end / or at last grasping the beloved one tight" with these emotional colors at the background. As clear as it is, when -and if- finally these two lovers get the chance to get together, it's a great deal of relieving a huge amount of bottled sexual and emotional tension. So when it is said in an eastern storyline, a wedding night represents this intensity of connection where the lover and the beloved "unite or meet" So.. Just like any two lovers experience the suffering because of being apart from each other, For Rumi, after being so far, so long, so distant from the "God"= ('his one and only', 'his beloved', 'his any-other-else-thing-is-ever-existed Thing') death represents this "enormous reunion" He calls this thick medium which is not allowing the lovers to meet as 'life' So today is Rumi's birthday. Whom awaited passionately for his death, yearned to meet his love. 'Şeb-i aruz' is his wedding night where he finally embraces deeply his only love.

Once I was teaching dance to the kids in one of these summer schools in Istanbul. I had different age categories in different classes. That was the summer that I had started to meditate in a more sustainable manner. This one day, I meditated during the day and went to my class of 6y olds. At the end of the class, we were all talking; out of nowhere, one of the kids sat in lotus position and said 'now I do yoga!' and in a split second, 20 of them got deep quiet in that position. So quiet that I felt mind was noisy while trying to figure out.. then I waited good 10-15 minutes and had to interrupt them to finish the class.. That was one of the very educative moments of my life. I worked with kids a lot. They are so significant to tune themselves into your emotional and mental state and into their surrounding frequencies.

Thank you @Nahm ? we all are, aren't we?❤

The whole book called "Mesnevi" that let us know about Rumi's wisdom today, is written because of his deep love for Shams Tabrizî

This was my very first post on this forum, a year ago today. While posting these quotes last year I didn't realize it but 30th of September is Rumi's birthday:) interestingly I discovered this, couple of weeks ago; while I was counting down and calculating how many weeks I had left for my first trip...

@everythingisnothing I've just seen this, maybe next time! Thanks for the invite:)

But also, isn't evolution the inevitable motion of the nature? In spite of all the crises or the resistances?

@Toby thank you very much. Your advice is really helpful for me. I'm pretty much clear about it but nevertheless I'll consider my inner state the week before. Thank you.

Guys, what are your advices for a first trip on Al lad or lsd?

?if you knew those hurtful moments in your life would help you to build the deepest connections and true love one day, you would have probably been embracing them with a crazy enthusiasm? Healing is a wonderful, magical process, isn't it??

Wish I could be there to hug you?? 'it's never late to live a happy childhood' Brown Tracy says, 'since all the reality is just about perception'?