Abu Siddique
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“Love
Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation?
What do you know of Love except the name?
Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain,
and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion.
Since Love is loyal, it purchases one who is loyal:
it has no interest in a disloyal companion.
The human being resembles a tree; its root is a covenant with God:
that root must be cherished with all one's might.
A weak covenant is a rotten root, without grace or fruit.
Though the boughs and leaves of the date palm are green,
greenness brings no benefit if the root is corrupt.
If a branch is without green leaves, yet has a good root,
a hundred leaves will put forth their hands in the end.”
―
Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation?
What do you know of Love except the name?
Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain,
and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion.
Since Love is loyal, it purchases one who is loyal:
it has no interest in a disloyal companion.
The human being resembles a tree; its root is a covenant with God:
that root must be cherished with all one's might.
A weak covenant is a rotten root, without grace or fruit.
Though the boughs and leaves of the date palm are green,
greenness brings no benefit if the root is corrupt.
If a branch is without green leaves, yet has a good root,
a hundred leaves will put forth their hands in the end.”
―
“When I was a child, I saw God,
I saw angels;
I watched the mysteries of higher and lower worlds. I thought all men saw the same. At last I realized that they did not see.....”
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I saw angels;
I watched the mysteries of higher and lower worlds. I thought all men saw the same. At last I realized that they did not see.....”
―
“No thought,no reflection,no analysis,no cultivation,no intention;let it settle itself.Relax "Tilopa”
― Instructions in Mahamudra - a translation of the Ganga Mahamudra Upadesha of Tilopa
― Instructions in Mahamudra - a translation of the Ganga Mahamudra Upadesha of Tilopa
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