dear hafez lovers.
I've sang this line of Hafez for the Man the past five years at Burning Man, and wanted to share it with you.
Be paaye kheeshtan aayand aasheghan be kamandat,
Ke har-ke raa to begiri, ze kheestan berahaani.
the lovers come to your trap on their own feet,
for whomever you capture, you release them from themselves.
peace and love.
h.
I've sang this line of Hafez for the Man the past five years at Burning Man, and wanted to share it with you.
Be paaye kheeshtan aayand aasheghan be kamandat,
Ke har-ke raa to begiri, ze kheestan berahaani.
the lovers come to your trap on their own feet,
for whomever you capture, you release them from themselves.
peace and love.
h.
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Re: Hafez for the Man.
Thu, September 6, 2007 - 9:35 PMthat's very cool brother....spreading some beautiful vibes there
peace
Jon
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Re: Hafez for the Man.
Fri, September 7, 2007 - 6:38 AMInteresting. Have you come across Peter Kingsley's book 'Reality' (published by the Golden Sufi Center)? It's an extraordinary account of the teaching of the ancient Greek philosophers Parmenides and Empedocles - as Kingsley has lived it. The reason I mention this is twofold. First, it is a key part of Empedocles' teaching that 'it is love that binds and strife that frees' - a sentiment that runs precisely opposite to what most people believe today. Secondly, it was in Iran that the teaching of Empedocles was kept alive - among the Sufis.
This couplet seems - to me at least - to strongly resonate with Empedocles' teaching. And it makes me wonder whether Hafez learned this from his master. Or whether it was already and integral part of the Sufi culture and idiom in which he was educated.
How does He release His lovers from themselves? Through that alternation of 'contraction' and 'expansion' of the heart that the master initiates (which the Sufis call 'talwin' - coloration). An alternation that is pure... strife! -
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Re: Hafez for the Man.
Fri, September 14, 2007 - 3:38 PMJames,
thanks for the response.
to be honest, I am not to familiar with hafez' life or schooling. But he seems to me more of a heart man than a mind man.
Not to say he was not a genius. But he didn't need him brain, mind and reason to understand everything. He could also understand with his hear.
About the specifics of the release.
Well....this is release from oneself. Primarily the ego. Attachments. our isms. our routine. our comfort zone. our soy chai double latte.
Whomever is captured by the eternal beloved is free from themselves. From the BS we get outselves into.
That's kinda my level of understanding of the whole thing....
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