"Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world."

[seemslikeadream]

http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/rumi/transcript.shtml

Ms. Keshavarz: Absolutely. You know, I send out lists to my friends called "Windows on Iran," precisely for that. Just once a week I send out information about Iran that they don't get to see in the media. Like in the month of June, for example, there's a book fare in Iran. You know how many people visited this past book fare in June in one week? Two million people visited the book fare. You know, I send this out and then I get these messages: Wow, this is happening in Iran? Or I send pictures.

I just realized afterwards that our visual vocabulary has been affected. If we think of Iran, we only have certain visions of unfortunate moments in recent history that get repeated. And our language — Rumi is so aware of that. Language can take over our lives and make us not see things. He actually has a fabulous verse, he says (Persian spoken). "Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world." I mean this is the most sophisticated, philosophical approach to language. Now we talk of language as being constitutive of experience, but that's exactly what he said. You know, 'get yourself a new language and then you will be able to see a new world.' And that's definitely what we need to do in relation to that part of the world, certainly with Iran, to see the dynamics. A tremendous amount is going on that we don't get to hear about.


http://www.pbase.com/k_amj/throughout_iran&page=all

This is Iran, Are you going to attack it ?
by Jadi on Tue 13 Mar 2007 02:33 AM PDT | Permanent Link
have a look at This nice collection of photos from. Then add some bombs to the photos using your imagination; Attack to Iran if the result looks attractive. We have problems here, we have human rights violations, we have obligatory was of coduncts, we have Ahmadinejad as our "selected" (not elected) president and we do not have to say we are against authorities. But BOMBs will not improve our situation.





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S45OJnQp6mI


http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=709776

[seemslikeadream]

1. "...Move beyond any attachment to names.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mRiqu6G_Rg








"...Move beyond any attachment to names.” Every war



and every conflict between human beings has happened because



of some disagreement about



names. It’s such an unnecessary foolishness, because just



beyond the arguing there’s a long



table of companionship, set and waiting for us to sit down.



“What is praised is one, so the praise is one too, many jugs being poured



into a huge basin. All religions, all this singing, one song.



The differences are just illusion and vanity.



Sunlight looks slightly different



on this wall than it does on that wall and a lot different



on this other one, but



it is still one light. We have borrowed these clothes, these



time-and-space personalities,



from a light, and when we praise, we pour them back in.



mevlana jelaluddin rumi - 13th century

[otherlander]

2. K & R

[Karenina]

3. And another!