Name: This Place Where You Are Right Now
Duration: P00H01M58S
Description: Poem by Hafiz, from "A Year With Hafiz" by Daniel Ladinsky

This Place Where You Are Right Now

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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This place where you are right now, God circled
on a map for you.
Wherever your eyes and arms and heart can move
against the earth and sky, the Beloved has bowed
there,
our Beloved has bowed there, knowing you were
coming.
I could tell you a priceless secret about your real
worth, dear pilgrim,
but any unkindness to yourself, any confusion about
others, will keep one from accepting the grace,
the love, the sublime freedom Divine Knowledge
always offers you. 
Never mind, Hafiz, about the great requirements
this path demands of the wayfarers,
for your soul is too full of wine tonight to withhold
the wondrous truth from this world. But because
I am so clever and generous,
I have already clearly woven a resplendent lock of
His tresses as a remarkable gift in this verse for you.
This place where you are right now, God circled on
a map. And wherever, darling, you can move against
this earth and sky, the Beloved has bowed there,
knowing, knowing you were coming.

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

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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