Comments on: Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi – Fasting http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2012/07/20/mevlana-jelaluddin-rumi-fasting-2/ Sacred Poetry from Around the World Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:42:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Paula Rasmussen http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2012/07/20/mevlana-jelaluddin-rumi-fasting-2/#comment-74586 Paula Rasmussen Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:58:23 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/?p=2120#comment-74586 As a Craniosacral Yoga therapist working with 5 fasting, cleansing clients a day, 5 days a week, for over 10 years, fasting is not new to me. You are your relationship with food and your relationship with food is you. In other words your relationship with food reflects your relationship to yourself. Fasting is another form of Self Realization. but, not everyone wants to engage with it in that way. And in my program, in which i treated people from all over the world, They were alllowed to make fasting be what they were ready for it to be. With an opportunity always available to allow it to enlighted them. The results were incredible. Amazing transformational healing happening daily. I am in Houston, Tx. available to those that need support in their fasting and cleansing rituals. email: stillpointbliss@yahoo.com/ Paula Rasmussen As a Craniosacral Yoga therapist working with 5 fasting, cleansing clients a day, 5 days a week, for over 10 years, fasting is not new to me. You are your relationship with food and your relationship with food is you. In other words your relationship with food reflects your relationship to yourself. Fasting is another form of Self Realization. but, not everyone wants to engage with it in that way. And in my program, in which i treated people from all over the world, They were alllowed to make fasting be what they were ready for it to be. With an opportunity always available to allow it to enlighted them. The results were incredible. Amazing transformational healing happening daily. I am in Houston, Tx. available to those that need support in their fasting and cleansing rituals. email: stillpointbliss@yahoo.com/ Paula Rasmussen

]]> By: Lakshmi http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2012/07/20/mevlana-jelaluddin-rumi-fasting-2/#comment-73832 Lakshmi Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:12:33 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/?p=2120#comment-73832 Yes Ivan, What Rumi has said and you have explained is so true. I have always wanted to fast, but was scare and decided I could not do it. But now, I think I will start. Slowly not 24 hour fasting :) but start by not having dinner then go. Thanks:) lakshmi Yes Ivan, What Rumi has said and you have explained is so true. I have always wanted to fast, but was scare and decided I could not do it. But now, I think I will start. Slowly not 24 hour fasting :) but start by not having dinner then go.
Thanks:)
lakshmi

]]> By: Ivan M. Granger http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2012/07/20/mevlana-jelaluddin-rumi-fasting-2/#comment-73368 Ivan M. Granger Sat, 21 Jul 2012 21:04:24 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/?p=2120#comment-73368 Kirk, A "chaikhana" is literally a "tea house." Here's a note I have posted elsewhere on the site: A chaikhana is a teahouse along the legendary Silk Road pilgrimage and trading route linking China to the Middle East and Europe. It is a place of rest along the journey, a place to shake off the dust of the road, to sip tea, and to gather together to sing songs of the Divine... Ivan Kirk,

A “chaikhana” is literally a “tea house.” Here’s a note I have posted elsewhere on the site:

A chaikhana is a teahouse along the legendary Silk Road pilgrimage and trading route linking China to the Middle East and Europe. It is a place of rest along the journey, a place to shake off the dust of the road, to sip tea, and to gather together to sing songs of the Divine…

Ivan

]]> By: kirk klingsmith http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2012/07/20/mevlana-jelaluddin-rumi-fasting-2/#comment-73356 kirk klingsmith Sat, 21 Jul 2012 19:41:06 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/?p=2120#comment-73356 Ivan, Great commentary and poem as usual One question form a friend, what toes "Chaikhana" mean, and it's significance. Thanks k Ivan,
Great commentary and poem as usual
One question form a friend, what toes “Chaikhana” mean, and it’s significance.
Thanks
k

]]> By: Barbara http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2012/07/20/mevlana-jelaluddin-rumi-fasting-2/#comment-73321 Barbara Sat, 21 Jul 2012 15:40:28 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/?p=2120#comment-73321 Thank you, Ivan, for this post and for all that you do. The seeds you plant are profound. Thank you, Ivan, for this post and for all that you do. The seeds you plant are profound.

]]> By: yohannan http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2012/07/20/mevlana-jelaluddin-rumi-fasting-2/#comment-73288 yohannan Sat, 21 Jul 2012 12:03:25 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/?p=2120#comment-73288 I read today's sending very unusely today,just when woke up,after a havy sleep and dramatic waking up''my stomac still full,almost explosing if not imploding, by his contain,huge parts of red sweet watermelon I use to stuffed at nights every day lately , this week!It has become like a religous ceremony for me to find the store where they are not so expencif,choos them,cut them swalow them! Now,I feel like a camion just roled over me!God how I like this fruit!and I know how to choose them!(when hited by your palm,it must sound empty,not full)And its soooo good and sweet and beautifull and rafreshing it's just unbealiweble!Thank you Ivan for remind me the'' other side of the watermelo.It's so true that every food is a drug for us and to choose bliss and clarity over hell and confusion is a job given to us by the one who created watermelons and us.Sweet days for all. I read today’s sending very unusely today,just when woke up,after a havy sleep and dramatic waking up”my stomac still full,almost explosing if not imploding, by his contain,huge parts of red sweet watermelon I use to stuffed at nights every day lately , this week!It has become like a religous ceremony for me to find the store where they are not so expencif,choos them,cut them swalow them!
Now,I feel like a camion just roled over me!God how I like this fruit!and I know how to choose them!(when hited by your palm,it must sound empty,not full)And its soooo good and sweet and beautifull and rafreshing it’s just unbealiweble!Thank you Ivan for remind me the” other side of the watermelo.It’s so true that every food is a drug for us and to choose bliss and clarity over hell and confusion is a job given to us by the one who created watermelons and us.Sweet days for all.

]]> By: Ram Krishna Singh http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2012/07/20/mevlana-jelaluddin-rumi-fasting-2/#comment-73228 Ram Krishna Singh Sat, 21 Jul 2012 05:51:05 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/?p=2120#comment-73228 Ramzan, the fasting period to realize the 'hidden sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness,' has begun from today. Let the music of heaven echo in the minds and souls of the brave friends observing the one month fast. Fasting is Allah's grace to humans for their own bliss. --R.K.Singh Ramzan, the fasting period to realize the ‘hidden sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness,’ has begun from today. Let the music of heaven echo in the minds and souls of the brave friends observing the one month fast. Fasting is Allah’s grace to humans for their own bliss.
–R.K.Singh

]]> By: Michael K'shatria Young http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2012/07/20/mevlana-jelaluddin-rumi-fasting-2/#comment-73205 Michael K'shatria Young Sat, 21 Jul 2012 03:18:21 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/?p=2120#comment-73205 There are many levels to fasting. The physical is the most visable. Yet in our day and age, with all our addictive communication media, I wonder if another level of fasting would be to unplug from phones, internet, the web, even radio and tv. Surely they feed the false ego as much as does food. Perhaps silence can be as beneficial as physical fasting. There are many levels to fasting. The physical is the most visable. Yet in our day and age, with all our addictive communication media, I wonder if another level of fasting would be to unplug from phones, internet, the web, even radio and tv. Surely they feed the false ego as much as does food. Perhaps silence can be as beneficial as physical fasting.

]]> By: Mohammad Ishaq Khan http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2012/07/20/mevlana-jelaluddin-rumi-fasting-2/#comment-73191 Mohammad Ishaq Khan Sat, 21 Jul 2012 01:47:02 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/?p=2120#comment-73191 Thank you, Mr. Ivan, for your brilliant exposition.You have deeply and fully understood the meaning and purpose of fasting. I am 66 and have over four decades experienced and realised that fasting is the most powerful and fruitful discipline of spiritual and social significance for both curbing the false ego and elevating the inner self. Thank you, Mr. Ivan, for your brilliant exposition.You have deeply and fully understood the meaning and purpose of fasting. I am 66 and have over four decades experienced and realised that fasting is the most powerful and fruitful discipline of spiritual and social significance for both curbing the false ego and elevating the inner self.

]]> By: jim carlin http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2012/07/20/mevlana-jelaluddin-rumi-fasting-2/#comment-73170 jim carlin Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:47:41 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/?p=2120#comment-73170 after a year in a war torn third world country hunger gains an entirely new meaning after a year in a war torn third world country
hunger gains an entirely new meaning

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