Music By Eugene Friesen Arto Tuncboyaciyan on Cello
Opening Of the Hart
“The mind cannot understand Rumi's
poetry. Neither can desire. Mind and desire
are not enough. There's something else, some other way of knowing, some
deeper part of our being that knows we're not in grief, that knows we're
in eternity, you know, that sings out of that. That's the mystery, I
think, that cannot be said.”Coleman
Barks
"When I die," said
Nasrudin, "have me buried in an old grave." "Why?"
asked his relatives. "Because when Munkir and Nakir, the recording
angels of good and bad deeds, come, I will be able to wave them on,
saying that this grave has been counted and entered for punishment already."
Together Bly
and Barks visited the tomb of Hafez
(Hafiz), a revered poet of the 14th century, in the
southern Iranian city of Shiraz. Bly says of the visit: "We got
up in the morning and we went to the grave. And about eight o'clock
in the morning, you know, children started to come. Maybe third grade
children.
And they stood around the little tomb and sang a poem
of Hafez's. Really charming. And then they went away, and now some fifth
graders came. And they stood around the tomb and sang a poem of Hafez
(Hafiz). Of course, every poem of Hafez (Hafiz)is connected with a tune,
so you teach the children the tune, and then they have the poem. So
I said to myself, "Isn't that unbelievable? And why don't we do
that? Why don't we go to the grave of Walt Whitman and have children
come there?"
brief Introduction to Iranian Poetry in Film
"I shoot an arrow right,
It lands left. I ride after a deer and find myself chased by a hog.
I plot to get what I want and end up in prison. I dig pits to trap others
and fall in. I should be suspicious of what I want. " Rumi
"Today, like every other day, we woke
up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin
reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what
we do. " Rumi
