Letter 79: Spirit Hundred Letters of Sharafuddin Maneri Q:17:85 translated by Paul Jackson Kitab at Ta’arruf Attar Sa’di Maulana Rumi a tiny basket advanced Sufi mysticism Persian English

Poem 15 & 16 in Love’s Last Madness revised edition an English translation of Mata’e Nur Treasure House of Light by Darshan Singh poem 36 & 19 “intellect is a house of darkness” “don’t ask about the dark” “you are the bandit” “the face of every friend is an endless array of masks; My foes I recognize in any guise they try to pass” “strange entanglement” Barry Lerner arabic persian urdu 1988 Bowling Green Virginia mystical poetry

Hindi talk translated to English May 4th by Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj 3 friends a reunion money explorer mystic “we gain what our attention is most focused on” “can not still out body as easily when we get old” “you will find God in this Lifetime all you have to do is give flight to your Soul” Darshan Vivek is a gift of God to put it aside is our own folly Kabir Be Safe Be regular

The journals of Thomas Merton 1963 in the Intimate Merton “the best thing about the retreat has been working in the pig Barn” Dumoulin History of Zen koan “I myself am part ... of the climate”

Letter 78: Hope and Fear in the Hundred Letters of Sharafuddin Maneri Paul Jackson Paulist press be safe sun and shade hope and fear like two wings “truth means that you remove yourself from your path” “your nearness to God lies in your distance from yourself” “the very least of the signs of Nearness is contemplation and persistence” Sufi Master Ibn Yahya 1263-1381 Bihar classics of western spirituality

Poem 13 and 14 of Love’s Last Madness revised edition translation into English of poem 46 and 11 of Mata-e Nur of Darshan Singh mystic urdu poet of the twentieth century 1921-1988 “I seek nothing less than a city of love” “those dismayed by the darkness of the times watch raptly for the sun and moon at morning and at night” “weary morning breeze” “mocking grin” “flowers of spring” and “surging with spring” slow read Barry Lerner sheltering in third eye

Global Meditation in Place Sant Rajinder Singh may 3 Happiness Studies: buy toys, buy groceries, buy property, travel, relationships, arts & study not enough Stonecutter: King: Sun: Clouds: Stone the Presence of God go beyond the clouds into the mysteries of the beyond SOS Meditation sos.org youtube isolation stay in place in home in meditation put toys on pause make sure you are far away from each other

1962 in the Journals of Thomas Merton edited by Patrick Hart and Jonathan Montaldo in the Intimate Merton Harper San Francisco 1996 poetry of Hari Kleia France? england? Greece? Jung Spiritual disciplines dream Eleanor Shipley Duckett Christmas

Letter 77: The Secrets of Fate and Predestination in the Hundred Letter of Sharafuddin Maneri Sufi Master Maktubati Sadi translated from Persian to English by Paul Jackson calamity of coronavirus Covid19 water and dust Quran brokenhearted and miserable advanced mysticism sufism grief sorrow ibn yahya 1263-1381 classics western spirituality paulist press a library of the great spiritual masters

Poem 12 of Love’s Last Madness/ poem 15 of Mata-e Nur Urdu poetry of Darshan Singh translated to English by Barry Lerner and Harbans Singh Bedi revised edition “grief gone to extremes was its own remedy” Ghalib “when pain transcends its limit, it becomes its own cure” Iqbal “for the falcon to build a nest amounts to self-disgrace” Kabir: “begging amounts to death” sant mat modern spirituality mystical poetry