ONE - Bulleh Shah

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Realization, NetSufi <netsufi2000> wrote:

> ONE - Bulleh Shah

>

> I know not who I am

>

> I am neither a believer going to the mosque

> Nor given to non-believing ways

> Neither clean nor unclean

> Neither Moses nor Pharaoh

> I know not who I am

 

 

.....well, you certainly seem pretty clear about who you aren't, which

is kind of a back-door way of defining who you are, hmm?

 

 

>

> I am neither among sinners nor among saints

> Neither happy nor unhappy

> I belong neither to water nor to earth

> I am neither fire nor air

 

 

.......and yet, if i dropped a big rock on your toe, i bet you would

recognize that being neither this not that element does not preclude

you from being made up of all of them.

 

>

> Neither do I know the secret of religion

> Nor am I born of Adam and Eve

> I have given myself no name

> I belong neither to those who squat and pray

> Nor to those who have gone astray

> I know not who I am

 

 

.....and thus, by claiming such, you have created your own religion --

the religion of " I am that which does not know " .

 

>

> I was in the beginning, I'd be there in the end

> I know not any one other than the One

> Who could be wiser than Bulleh Shah

> Whose Master is ever there to tend?

> I know not who I am

 

 

......and what if there was no beginning or end?

and what is all this stuff abour comparative wisdom?

here's a quarter --

dial someone who cares.

 

 

 

> All religious and spiritual differences

> melt away the nearer you get to God.

 

 

 

 

.......as long as you believe there is distance between you & God

which might be subject to melting, you are still wandering in Rod

Serling Loka.

 

 

> God is All. God is Love. Love YOU.

 

 

 

....oh alright, but God is fucked up too, since God is you, and you

are definitely fucked up!