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Interesting: http://www.muslimheritage.com/topics/de … icleID=686
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ABRAXAS wrote:
Interesting: http://www.muslimheritage.com/topics/de … icleID=686
Thanks! This looks like a great article gotta read it slowly and make sure I get it all. When it comes to Muslim culture I feel so ignorant and need to deepen my appreciation of the beauty and depth of what they have to offer. I started to feel my lack of knowledge when I was in China and saw how much influence Muslim culture had and has even today over general Chinese Han society.
I started to learn about Islam and its culture when I came back from helping Chikuzen at one of his camp. On my ride back to the airport I was with one of his students and she introduced me to Rumi and Sufism I read his poems and I can say this is truly something everyone should read.
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Sufism has a lot of commonality with Zen.
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Tairaku wrote:
Sufism has a lot of commonality with Zen.
Indeed. Outside of Indian,Chinese, Korea or Japanese when I read Rumi and about Sufism I did not feel muslimized it felt quite right.
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Gishin wrote:
Tairaku wrote:
Sufism has a lot of commonality with Zen.
Indeed. Outside of Indian,Chinese, Korea or Japanese when I read Rumi and about Sufism I did not feel muslimized it felt quite right.
But Muslim is creation oriented (God created the world) similar to the Jewish and Christian religions, while Zen is not as far as I know. That's one major difference, kind of like two different views of reality.
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