This Brad Gooch book (Rumi's Secret 2017) on Rumi is really good, I'm quite enjoying it. I suppose I've been reading it for quite a while. My reading style has become slow and soaking up every detail, looking things up, writing about the book. It feels like a wise book. I've noticed that Iranian commentators think only Iranians really get Iranian history or Rumi. I'm not so sure about that. The suggestion is that westerners take out the Islam from Rumi, but I get the opposite of that from Gooch, seems like he takes pains to show the Islam over and over. I've really enjoyed learning about Islam, geography, history, culture. I'm not sure if my project of injecting Rumi, Shams and whatnot into my friendship with Mehdi, who's nickname is Shams. He's recently disavowed the nickname, he says it's like calling him Buddha, but I like it. I have read a book prior about Rumi and it was about how important Shams was to him so the name already had the meaning it has of great friendship. I actually wonder if Rumi is going on a bit about his friendship, but so what, it's really a great theme.
I have some resistance to turning down the volume on my body input. Not strictly what stage 4 is asking you, they want relaxed body, which is different. Relaxed body. Tranquillising. Can you do that with your mind?
Fading of lust, I think I want to change that to fading clinging.
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