11-09-2010, 02:36 PM
Jewels in Sufism mean spiritual truths, insights and understandings. I don't know where the hard earned comes from.. We're meant to steal em... In short that means try everything everyone around you does successfully, if it works, keep them...
It's very pragmatic, and leaves the flow of your own evolution in the hands of fate or God and your own design. I like that, I try that, I don't like that, I won't try that...
It's so simple that it sounds like it can't work... The thing is it does. Especially when those people you steal from leave their treasure sheds open. (i.e. teach you)
That's how I would interpret Ra's words here. Spiritual truths and insights that were hard earned probably by lots of practice and soul searching. The bottom line is the same of course. We just make the stealing jokes to empathize that inventing the wheel by yourself is usually hard work and not very profitable since everyone else already has a bunch of wheels in their own shed.
It's very pragmatic, and leaves the flow of your own evolution in the hands of fate or God and your own design. I like that, I try that, I don't like that, I won't try that...
It's so simple that it sounds like it can't work... The thing is it does. Especially when those people you steal from leave their treasure sheds open. (i.e. teach you)
That's how I would interpret Ra's words here. Spiritual truths and insights that were hard earned probably by lots of practice and soul searching. The bottom line is the same of course. We just make the stealing jokes to empathize that inventing the wheel by yourself is usually hard work and not very profitable since everyone else already has a bunch of wheels in their own shed.