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To Die Before Death: The Sufi Way of Life M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
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What is, can be a very ordinary moment, but that moment touches us in And I would equate this blindness to the Sufi idea of dying before death. Your quotation of the Hindu saying reminds me of a Sufi saying, “Die before you die. Then he motioned to me to go further and look, and I saw that the number of people going to heaven were few and the number of people going to hell were many. While the parts change, the whole always remains the same. Modern Sufis who embrace the idea of reincarnation include Bawa Muhaiyadeen (see his To Die Before Death: The Sufi Way of Life). The only way to get closer to the Truth is to expand your heart so that it will encompass all humanity and still have room for more Love. There is only one way to be born into a new life: to die before death. For me, Elif Shafak's Forty Rules of Love summarises many insights from the Sufi tradition for this journey of life. The death of our loved ones is too real, too painful. So, for the most Ultimately, death, in whatever way it comes to us, means that we entrust all that we are and all that we have to God. The relationships and parts of our lives that have died are too difficult. Comprehending Life, Society And Other Esoteric Domains. Http://786sufiwisdom.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/. A life without love is of no account. Simply because our expectation of what should be, stands in the way of what is. For every Sufi who dies, another is born somewhere. We don't really acknowledge, talk about, and deal with death. Milder, while some others end up becoming even harsher than before. For what dies is the sense of separation, and what is experienced is We are reminded by Hazrat Inayat Khan that “the central thought of Sufism is that life lives, it is death that dies.” To read more visit Wings of the Message | A Sufi Perspective.