Name: It Is A Holy Woman & A Temple
Duration: P00H02M35S
Description: Poem by Hafiz, from "A Year With Hafiz" by Daniel Ladinsky

It Is A Holy Woman & A Temple

from RUMI & HAFIZ: The Mountains Hint at Our Beauty by Lama Foundation

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Poem by Hafiz, from "A Year With Hafiz" by Daniel Ladinsky

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It is a holy man, a good poem, and a holy
woman; and a temple and a mosque and a
shrine.
Have you not been looking for a companion
like that? For a place of such great refuge,
where time asks nothing of you, where you
can come and go as you please, where you
basically control all the rules because your
inherent wisdom knows best.
And you don’t have to give up any pleasures
that might still be working, adding color to
your cheeks.
There is nothing you touch that you hope
won’t fit into a puzzle you are seriously
working on. 
I know how the eye works, what its primary
desire and impetus is: to lay its gaze upon
the beautiful, and for beauty to wink back.
The eye, like every part of you, is governed
by your great and continual primal instinctive
need to feel whole and able.
Able to work and learn and give and play—
and love and love. Who would deny that?
It is a holy woman, a decent poem, and a
holy man; and a temple and a mosque and a
shrine.
Carry any relics from my words that you can.

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from RUMI & HAFIZ: The Mountains Hint at Our Beauty, released May 21, 2018
Read by Mirabai Starr

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Lama Foundation Taos, New Mexico

Lama Foundation is a spiritual community, educational facility, and retreat center. The birth place of "Be Here Now," by Ram Dass, and final resting place to Murshid Samuel Lewis, creator of the Dances of Universal Peace. Lama lies north of the town of Taos, New Mexico.

Designed to embrace all spiritual traditions, thousands of pilgrims from nearly all religious heritages have called Lama home. ... more