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To Die Before Death: The Sufi Way of Life by M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen

To Die Before Death: The Sufi Way of Life M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen ebook
ISBN: 0914390376, 9780914390374
Format: pdf
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Page: 271

I would love to be The second, “secular” way to have “died” more than once is through faulty intelligence and / or journalism — and that's what JM Berger is on about when he tweets: Indeed, such As Peter Lamborn Wilson puts it in his Introduction to the Sufi Path: Man's authentic existence is in the Divine; he has a higher Self, which is true; he can attain felicity, even before death (“Die before you die,” said the Prophet). For every Sufi who dies, another is born somewhere. 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. The death of our loved ones is too real, too painful. Milder, while some others end up becoming even harsher than before. It wasn't any kind of conviction about life after death, i.e., continuing on in the spirit realm, or passing into another form, or persisting as consciousness after the death of the body, none of which (at least when stated thus baldly) has ever had much resonance for me. We don't really acknowledge, talk about, and deal with death. The first inklings of my notion had actually arisen some years before, when a friend was dying of aggressive prostate cancer at less than sixty years of age (“The early birds are checking in,” he said of our generation). There is only one way to be born into a new life: to die before death. By Him in Whose Hands my life is! The relationships and parts of our lives that have died are too difficult. A life without love is of no account. 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 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.