{"id":725,"date":"2011-09-28T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=725"},"modified":"2011-09-26T14:31:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T18:31:12","slug":"beasts-and-their-volumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/28\/beasts-and-their-volumes\/","title":{"rendered":"Beasts and Their Volumes"},"content":{"rendered":"

To be real on this path you must be humble—
\nIf you look down at others you’ll get pushed down the stairs.<\/p>\n
If your heart goes around on high, you fly far from this path.
\nThere’s no use hiding it—
\nWhat’s inside always leaks outside.<\/p>\n
Even the one with the long white beard, the one who looks so wise—
\nIf he breaks a single heart, why bother going to Mecca?
\nIf he has no compassion, what’s the point?<\/p>\n
My heart is the throne of the Beloved,
\nthe Beloved the heart’s destiny:
\nWhoever breaks another’s heart will find no homecoming
\nin this world or any other.<\/p>\n
The ones who know say very little
\nwhile the beasts are always speaking volumes;
\nOne word is enough for one who knows.<\/p>\n
If there is any meaning in the holy books, it is this:
\nWhatever is good for you, grant it to others too—<\/p>\n
Whoever comes to this earth migrates back;
\nWhoever drinks the wine of love
\nunderstands what I say—<\/p>\n
Yunus, don’t look down at the world in scorn—<\/p>\n
Keep your eyes fixed on your Beloved’s face,
\nthen you will not see the bridge
\non Judgment Day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
—Yunus, “One Who Is Real Is Humble”
\nTranslated into English by Refik Algan and Kabir Helminski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
To be real on this path you must be humble— If you look down at others you’ll get pushed down the stairs. If your heart goes around on high, you fly far from this path. There’s no use hiding it— What’s inside always leaks outside. Even the one with the long white beard, the one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2549,594,538],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-poetry","tag-sufi","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}