A piece of wisdom from
May 13, 2021 · Thursday
The quote
“A good cook changes his knife once a year, because he cuts. A bad cook changes his knife once a month, because he hacks. The Cook Ting follows the openings — his knife is nineteen years old, and the edge is as fresh as the day it was sharpened.”
— Chuang Tzu · The Tao
The concept
Sufism
The Persian path of the heart, where the lover finds the Beloved by losing the self.
Rumi is the bestselling poet in America. Hafiz is quoted at weddings and on coffee mugs. Yet almost no one in the West has practiced what they were writing about. Sufism, the mystical heart of Islam, with branches in Persia, Anatolia, Khora…
A practice for today
Before bed tonight, name one thing where the lesson of Sufism. The Persian path of the heart, where the lover finds the Beloved by losing the self.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 2.47
कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन। मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि॥
“Your right is to the work itself, never to its fruits. Do not let the fruits of action be your motive, and do not be attached to inaction.”
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