Open Secret

by MOYNE, JOHNBARKS, COLEMAN

• ISBN13: 9781570625299
• ISBN10: 1570625298
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1999-09-21
• Publisher: Shambhala

Summary

These quatrains and odes reveal a most human and accessible side of the great poet and mystic. They are the personal records of one man's encounter with the Divine.

Author Biography

Coleman Barks, Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia, is Rumi's premier English translator. He lives in Athens, Georgia.

John Moyne is a Persian scholar and Emeritus Professor and former head of Linguistics at the Graduate School of the City University of New York.

Jalaluddin Rumi (1207–1273) was not only a poet, mystic, and the founder of a Sufi order, he was a man of profound insight into the nature of human existence and possibly the greatest mystical poet of any age.

Table of Contents

Note on the Translations	ix
Introduction	xi
Quatrains	3	(20)
Odes	23	(16)
Now That I Know How it is	25	(2)
There's Nothing Ahead	27	(1)
Someone Digging in the Ground	28	(1)
Walking Out of the Treasury Building	29	(1)
The Elusive Ones	30	(1)
This World Which is Made of Our Love for Emptiness	31	(1)
Maybe They're Shy	32	(1)
Champion Lovemaker and Leader of Men!	33	(1)
The Tent	34	(1)
Greed and Generosity	35	(1)
The Whole Place Goes Up	36	(1)
Who Says Words with my Mouth	37	(2)
Versions Based on Arberry and Nicholson	39
Answers from the Elements	41	(1)
Fasting	42	(1)
An Egypt That Doesn't Exist	43	(1)
Growing a Coat of Mail	44	(1)
The New Rule	45	(1)
Unmarked Boxes	46	(1)
I have Such a Teacher	47	(1)
Bonfire at Midnight	48	(1)
The Bottle is Corked	49	(1)
Be Melting Snow	50	(1)
The Image of your Body	51	(1)
In the Arc of your Mallet	52	(1)
The Ocean Moving all Night	53	(1)
Folded into the River	54	(1)
Let's Go Home	55	(1)
Privacy	56	(1)
The Drunk and the Madman	57	(1)
Silver Coins	58	(1)
Keeper of Secrets	59	(1)
Look, Fish	60	(1)
Let the Letter Read you	61	(1)
Sometimes I Forget Completely	62	(1)
The Rights of Crying	63	(1)
After Being in love, the Next Responsibility	64	(1)
The Diver's Clothes Lying Empty	65	(1)
An Empty Garlic	66	(1)
The Shop	67	(1)
The Torrent Leaves	68	(1)
Say Yes Quickly	69	(1)
Dissolver of Sugar	70	(1)
Strange Business	71	(1)
The Snow-World Melts	72	(1)
The Name	73	(1)
The Music	74	(1)
Display	75	(1)
The Question	76	(2)
The Variety of Intelligences in Human Beings	78	(1)
Why Organize a Universe This Way?	79	(1)
Those you are With	80	(1)
Learning the Signs of the Zodiac	81	(1)
The Phrasing Must Change	82