Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern by James C. Harrington and Sidney G. Hall III

Author:James C. Harrington and Sidney G. Hall III
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Published: 2012-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

De León: Mevlana, how beautiful! And, I recall that, like Meister Eckhart, you also have spoken of “going to the deep well of divine love inside each of us” and filling our jars there.

Rumi: Yes, thank you for remembering that. For us in Sufi Islamic mysticism, there is the lover, the loved one, and love. It is like a circle that keeps narrowing until the spiritual love binds the lover and loved one so close together that the three become one, indistinguishable from the other.

Eckhart: One could say that the mystic seeks God, which causes God to seek the mystic, and vice versa, until the boundary between lover and love, love and beloved, lover and beloved disappears, as you express it Mevlana. Lover and Beloved become each other or, as Professor Soltes will state it succinctly, “they are both both.”

“Seeking” God, though, is not “striving for” God. “Seeking” means emptying oneself, moving away from the illusion of a separate self and into ego-less clarity.

De León: You have a fairly evocative poem, Mevlana, which expresses this poignantly:

One went to the door of the Beloved and knocked.

A voice asked, “Who is there?”

He answered, “It is I.”

The voice said, “There is no room for Me and Thee.”

The door was shut.

After a year of solitude and deprivation, he returned and knocked.

A voice from within asked, “Who is there?”

The man said, “It is Thee.”

The door was opened for him.

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