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Posted by rat on 12/23/2008, 8:40 pm, in reply to "Re: season of confusion"
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: Al-Qushayri:
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: 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:
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: I heard my father say I asked Abu Yazid
: about his beginning and his renunciation.
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: He said: “Renunciation has no station.”
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: I asked: “Why?”
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: 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.’”
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: I said: “This is what I want.”
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: 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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: I don't understand that at all Rat.
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I interpret it as saying it is very painful to give up everything the ego has contructed to embelish itself, including God and religion.
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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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