Paul
It is about two months that I am reading Rumi's poems again. They are helping me to be stronger spiritually….I learn how to connect and live my Spirit and ignore my ego as much as possible
Orders and instructions are exactly what you can find in Holy Book, and in fact Rumi is helping me understand facts and point of Holy Book
Before I couldn’t understand what exactly sinful nature means or where and when I am guided by my sinful nature. Now I understand very much better…. Rumi says sin is in fact everything which comes from our Ego! And any second of your life that we do not live Holy Spirit but we live our Ego or mind we are in sin! He also explains how easily we can be tricked by our Ego!
Many years ago my uncle, told me “if you want to understand what Rumi says, you have to read Holy Book!” Interestingly, now reading Rumi’s Sonnets is helping me to understand what Holy Book says!
For example, according to Rumi, we can find out what are external conditions which make our ego to come up and make us disconnected from Holy Spirit… People’s weak points are different… Factors are different from one person to another one…
I am also finding out about myself… Now I understand that one of my weakest points (which is still my weak point) was that I was very much sensitive and vulnerable about people’s judgment. Despite that I never cared about following up norms of society and I was always doing what was my own real selection, but at the same time, people’s judgment would make me feel crazy! And so I would start judging them as well!
In my view, judgment is in fact the poison of personality; and from an spiritual perspective a poison for Spirit. Now I understand why it is that much recommended in Holy Book to stop judging people (or hatred, discord, fits of rage, dissension, faction etc)!
You may also know from Eric Bern’s Theory of Transactional Analysis that a mature adult don't judge… When we judge, in fact we are under unconscious control of our parent ego state!
It is interesting that I think I was never a judging person except where people were judging me! People’s judgment not only still activates my judgment but also my anger! Oh I was terrible in the past!
You know how much damaging effects judgment and anger have on relationships (You have already explained me about this issue.....)
Hopefully, I am very much better than the past; especially now that I am working on my vulnerability about being judged...
Hannah
17 March, 2013
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