The Buddhist Sufi
Last night my soul ask a question of existence.
Why are you upside down with flames in your belly?
Happy, unhappy, indigo-orange like the sky?
Why are you an off-balance wobbling millstone,
like the Buddhist Sufi Ibrahim Balkhi?
who was king, beggar, buddha, and dervish?
Existence answers, All this was made
by the one who hides inside you.
You are like a beautiful new bride,
quick to anger, stubborn,
hot, naked, but still veiled.
~Rumi
When I went to the Rumi event this past Friday, I actually met an Afro-Latino "Buddhist Sufi" (or to be more precise, he described himself as a bee who takes from more than one flower). He reminded me of the Zensunnis from the Dune novels. In fact, just last week I was thinking about them and asking myself how tennable that particular form of syncretism would be.
Dune Quotes
guess who's coming to dharma
religion in science fiction
Last night my soul ask a question of existence.
Why are you upside down with flames in your belly?
Happy, unhappy, indigo-orange like the sky?
Why are you an off-balance wobbling millstone,
like the Buddhist Sufi Ibrahim Balkhi?
who was king, beggar, buddha, and dervish?
Existence answers, All this was made
by the one who hides inside you.
You are like a beautiful new bride,
quick to anger, stubborn,
hot, naked, but still veiled.
~Rumi
When I went to the Rumi event this past Friday, I actually met an Afro-Latino "Buddhist Sufi" (or to be more precise, he described himself as a bee who takes from more than one flower). He reminded me of the Zensunnis from the Dune novels. In fact, just last week I was thinking about them and asking myself how tennable that particular form of syncretism would be.
Dune Quotes
guess who's coming to dharma
religion in science fiction
2 comments:
Thank God I'm not the only muslim who has read the Dune novels!
Yeah, I've met a few here and there. It is interesting how "Muslim" the Fremen are. They even fast in Ramadan.
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