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The Rumi poem entitled “Lover's Burn” builds from the story of Moses and the Shepherd.  It allows discussion of a number of themes related to reconciliation and the Sufi schema for working through the process of spiritual education and maturation.

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Three Rumi poems provide beautiful, but stringent observations and advice about the destructiveness of our egoism and what it will take to transform it.  Mevlana’s “roasting” of us is done beautifully, gently, and gives us great hope. 

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Takathur refers to accumulation/pursuit of material and sensual things, including boasting about status, possessions, credentials, ancestors and lineage.

Surah Takathur and Surah Kawthar have the same root and are related to the Arabic word, kathira (many). Many-ness can be a blessing when you see the oneness behind the many-ness. But there is great suffering when you only see the many-ness and it's tearing you apart in a thousand different directions, depending on the moment and the circumstance.

Surah Takathur tells about knowing naeem (true happiness) and the yaquin (certainty) with which we discern what is naeem. Surah Takathur confirms that the Quran guides us to an open-minded spiritual perception that is the source of our happiness.

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The ego or nafs is not enthusiastic about transformation because it serves as a defense and survival mechanism. The nafs may have strange ideas about what is needed for your survival and devise clever strategies to defend the false self at any cost.

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Kabir and Camille share principles for completion, for communion with the Absolute, true freedom while living in servanthood, and the critical role of community. We can live continually in a vibration of Love, instead of dominated by our own nafs and its continual requirements and many demands.

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Our unique spiritual journey is, in one sense, alone. In another sense, we absolutely need each other to reach completion. Love in community provides a high enough platform from which each individual’s state can be raised to an even higher level. A community of people who awaken the Resonance of Love also awaken the spectrum of Divine qualities. They can live in the Vibration of Love. The Vibration tames and softens our ego. Attempting this journey of transformation alone is a nearly impossible task.

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