Showing posts with label Jesus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jesus. Show all posts
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Friday, June 11, 2010
Ever Wondering...
Dan demi sesungguhnya, Kami telah mencipta manusia dan Kami sedia mengetahui apa yang dibisikkan oleh hatinya, sedang (pengetahuan) Kami lebih dekat kepadanya daripada urat lehernya.
It was We Who created man, and We know what dark suggestions his soul makes to him: for We are nearer to him than (his) jugular vein.
Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?
Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are flat?
Why do banks charge a fee on 'insufficient funds' when they know there is not enough?
What is the speed of darkness as opposed to speed of light?
Why is it that people say they 'slept like a baby' when babies wake up every two hours?
If the temperature is zero outside today and it's going to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold will it be?
Do married people live longer than single ones or does it only seem longer?
How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?
Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?
Did you ever stop and wonder.....???
Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, 'I think I'll squeeze these pink dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out?'
Who was the first person to say, 'See that chicken there... I'm gonna eat the next thing that comes outta its bum.'Why do toasters always have a setting so high that could burn the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?
Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?
Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don't point to their bum when they ask where the bathroom is?Why does your Obstetrician, Gynaecologist leave the room when you get undressed if they are going to look up there anyway?
Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They're both dogs!If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?
If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?Why do the Alphabet Song and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?
Stop singing and read on........!!!
Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup?
Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him on a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?
Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster?
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"You are nearer to me than my jugular vein"
You are my face; no wonder I don't see You:
such closeness is a mystifiying veil.
You are my reason; it's no wonder I don't see You,
because of all this perplexity of thought.
You are nearer to me than my jugular vein.
Mathnawi:VI:666-68, Ver by Camille & Kabir Helminski,
"Rumi:Jewels of Remembrance", Threshold Books, 1996
Monday, January 11, 2010
The Name, Jesus and the Fools
What Jesus Runs Away From
The son of Mary, Jesus, hurries up a slope as though a wild animal were chasing him. Someone following him asks,
"Where are you going? No one is after you."
Jesus keeps on, saying nothing, across two more fields.
"Are you the one who says words over a dead person, so that he wakes up?"
"I am."
"Did you not make the clay birds fly?"
"Yes."
Jesus slows his pace."Who then could possibly cause you to run like this ?"
"I say the Great Name over the deaf and the blind, they are healed. Over a stony mountainside, and it tears its mantle down to the navel. Over non-existence, it comes into existence.
But when I speak lovingly for hours, for days, with those who take human warmth and mock it, when I say the Name to them, nothing happens. They remain rock, or turn to sand, where no plants can grow. Other diseases are ways for mercy to enter, but this non-responding breeds violence and coldness toward God.
I am fleeing from that."
As little by little air steals water, so praise dries up and evaporates with foolish people who refuse to change. Like cold stone you sit on a cynic steals body heat. He doesn't actually feel the sun." Jesus wasn't running from actual people. He was teaching in a new way.
(Version by Coleman Barks, "The Essential Rumi",
HarperSanFrancisco, 1995)
Flee from the foolish;
even Jesus fled from them.
even Jesus fled from them.
Much blood has been shed by companionship with fools!
Air absorbs water little by little; even so, the fool drains you of spirit.
He steals your heat and leaves you cold,
like one who puts a stone beneath you.
like one who puts a stone beneath you.
The flight of Jesus wasn't caused by fear,
for he is safe from the mischief of fools;
for he is safe from the mischief of fools;
his purpose was to teach by example.
(Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski,
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance", Threshold Books, 1996)
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance", Threshold Books, 1996)
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