The dark thought, the shame, the malice, Meet them at the door laughing, And invite them in. He may be clearing you out For some new delight. The Guest House in The Connected Discourses of the Buddha. Who violently sweep your house Empty of its furniture, Still, treat each guest honourably. Instead, the Buddha encouraged us to give the guests our fullest attention to see and understand their presence. The Buddha knows we cannot always be grateful for our guests, as Rumi suggests, whether they arrive from within or without. The Buddha and Rumi remind us that guests turn up as as different kinds of feelings/experiences, welcome and unwelcome. They fully understand that which need to be In another discourse on The Guest House, the Buddha said people to the guest house from all directions from all castes/classes. The Buddha takes our responsibility as the host a step further. He said these feelings may be worldly or spiritual turn up at the guest house. The guests experience various feelings – pleasant, painful and neither pleasant or painful. In one discourse, the Buddha said that suppose there is a guest house and people from the four castes come from all directions to stay in the guest house. The Buddha often commented that the whole world is found in our body. The words of the Buddha would have struck a deep note of resonance for millions of Muslims. Rich and poor Muslims alike regarded their home as a guest house for family members, friends and strangers. Hospitality is a central ethic, a foundation stone of the rellgious life of the worldwide Muslim community. Huge statues were built in Afghanistan to mark the life of the Buddha. The Buddha’s teachings extended over much of Asia including deep into Afghanistan, the neibouring country of Iran (formerly Persia), where Rumi spent most of his life. (the Pali Canon of the words of the Buddha were written about three centuries after his death. The Buddha, whose teachings took deep root in Afghanistan, gave two talks called The Guest House. The words of the Buddha probably inspired Rumi to write The Guest House. The Buddha used the same analogy around 1700 years earlier in two talks entitled The Guest House. The Guest House Poem by Rumi, wall hanging, Rumi Quote, Eckhart Tolle, Inspirational Quote, Wall art, Rumi Guest House, Wall Art Poetry. One of his best loved poems is T he Guest House. Not surprisingly, insight meditation teachers delight to read Rumi’s poems to spiritual practitioners.
His poems strike a chord in the depths of our meditative being. Rumi, the 13th century Muslim poet from a Persian family, has deservedly won a place in our hearts for his sublime capacity to nourish the depth of our being with his perceptive insights into love, sensuality, spirituality and intimacy with the immediate world.
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