BULENT RAUF BOOKS
Addresses II
by Bulent Rauf
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Paperback, 108 pages
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By contrast with Addresses I, where the essays were selected by Bulent Rauf himself, this collection was put together by others after his death. The book includes translations, commentaries on the work of Ibn ‘Arabi, essays on history and cookery, and a fragment of autobiography, and generally reflects his wide range of knowledge and interests.
Despite the variety of themes and subjects, as John Brass writes in the ‘Introduction’, all of the pieces testify to the fact that:
Union with God [is] the sole purpose for the existence of Man. Those whose aim was the same, found in Bulent Rauf one who was at ease with the most elevated explanations concerning Man’s perfectibility, and who was able to express these ideas at the level of those who brought the questions.
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Extract from Addresses II
What is the single most important point that must be understood by a person who wants to know?
It is that there is only one, unique, absolute, infinite existence. It must be more than an idea. One has to be so completely certain of it that one adopts it through reason and an intuition as the basic unshakable fact of one’s existence.
When it is like that in one’s existence then every possible ramification that occurs to one is seen as not being outside The Existence, but as being an aspect of it.
Accept and completely adopt the idea that there is only the unique, absolute existence, apart from which there is not. Then constantly, or as much as possible, keep it in mind. Then, as only He can adopt such an idea, you disappear in the face of the awareness of this idea (which is Him in any case – who else could think of it?). Then your consciousness of this idea is your consciousness of His existence; His consciousness of Himself. Then where are you? You never were.
He shows you He is yourself, then bit by bit He shows you how He is all that there is. These showings are His caprices, until all exterior existence is known as Him. He shows you He is you, then shows you (Himself) that all else is Him. In the instant, all so-called progress is annihilated in Him.
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