A king falls asleep for a few seconds and wakes up shattered, no longer sure which of his two lives was the dream. That story opens the final and deepest turn of Garden of The Secret. This is Part 8. Everything so far has been leading here — to the third question, Who am I? …
Your mind can dissect the entire universe — and still never lay a finger on the one who made it. That paradox sits at the heart of this part. Continuing through Shabestari’s Garden of The Secret, we pick up the second great question: which kind of thinking actually leads somewhere? We’ll sit with the strange …
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A seeker once sent a list of burning questions across the desert to a silent mystic — and the answers that came back became one of the great spiritual texts of the world. This is Part 5 of Garden of The Secret, and here we finally reach those questions. We begin with the very first …
Everything that exists — every star, every thought, every breath you’ve ever taken — poured out of a single divine “Be.” That’s where Shabestari begins Garden of The Secret, and that’s where we begin too. This is Part 2 of the series. In the Introduction we met the mystic and the world he wrote in; …
Spirituality and Mysticism as Explained in the Masterpiece Sufi Text “Garden of The Secret” Introduction I’ll be writing some translations and commentaries on this great work, one that still remains largely unknown here in the West. Gulshan-e Raz, “The Rose Garden of Secrets,” is a collection of poems written in the early 14th century (around …