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Posted by rat on 12/23/2008, 12:24 pm, in reply to "Re: season of joy"
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: Hey rat, didn't you read what he said? He
: said, "book sales will suffer."
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Good point Bao Pu
Al-Qushayri:
I heard Shaykh Abu ‘Abd ar-Rahman as-Sulami, Allah have mercy on him, say: I heard al-Hasan ibn ‘Ali say: I heard ‘Ammi al-Bistimi say:
I heard my father say I asked Abu Yazid about his beginning and his renunciation.
He said: “Renunciation has no station.”
I asked: “Why?”
He said: “Because I spent three days in renunciation. When the fourth day came, I left it behind. The first day I renounced this world and what it contains. The second day I renounced the world to come and what it contains. When the fourth day arrived, nothing remained for me other than God. I understood. I heard a voice saying: ‘Abu Yazid, you will not be able to endure being with us.’”
I said: “This is what I want.”
I heard a voice saying: “You’ve found. You’ve found!
(Trans: Michael Sells) “Early Islamic Mysticism” Translated and Edited by Michael A.
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"The Tao is basically utterly open. Utter openeness has no substance. It ends in endlessness, begins in beginninglessnes".
-Li Daoqun
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