Coleman Barks performs a poem by Rumi, “Love Dogs” at one of the Mythic Journeys conferences. Musical accompaniment by Eugene Friesen and Arto Tuncboyaciyan.
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Love Dogs
Tue, Aug 31, 2010
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August 31st, 2010 at 9:21 pm
beautiful
August 31st, 2010 at 9:28 pm
thank you!!
namaste.
August 31st, 2010 at 10:04 pm
“To those love dogs out there who have not been getting a message back”: To those out there who have been praying and suffering, You are being heard, you are being heard. just be patient your pain and suffering is your connection to the divine, your “secret cup” .
August 31st, 2010 at 10:07 pm
Do you feel it? Stop listening to it and start feeling it. Once you stop listening to it and start feeling it then you start waking up and once you start waking up then you start listening.
August 31st, 2010 at 10:50 pm
“There are love dogs no one knows the names of….give your life to be one of them.”
August 31st, 2010 at 10:54 pm
The music …..amazing!
August 31st, 2010 at 10:57 pm
Coleman Barks has a depth of talent, and brings very old words back to modern times.
Sad that some people feel a desperate need to make themselves part of the performance. “Somehow I must be able to get some attention out of this.”
August 31st, 2010 at 11:26 pm
Speechless! My soul, my soul on fire!
Rumi is beyond time, beyond this place, beyond country, beyond personhood…ahhh.
August 31st, 2010 at 11:35 pm
Rumi has nothing to do with Mongol Turks. He just accidentally died there! He is From khorasan where is a part of Iran and now a part of Afghanistan. He is Persian. His poems are all in Persian.
August 31st, 2010 at 11:52 pm
One night a man was crying,
Allah! Allah!
His lips grew sweet with the praising,
until a cynic said,
“So! I have heard you
calling out, but have you ever
gotten any response?”
The man had no answer to that.
He quit praying and fell into a confused sleep.
He dreamed he saw Khidr, the guide of souls,
in a thick, green foliage.
“Why did you stop praising?
September 1st, 2010 at 12:31 am
“Because I’ve never heard anything back.”
“This longing
you express is the return message.”
The grief you cry out from
draws you toward union.
Your pure sadness
that wants help
is the secret cup.
Listen to the moan of a dog for its master.
That whining is the connection.
There are love dogs
no one knows the names of.
Give your life
to be one of them.
September 1st, 2010 at 12:45 am
Rumi transcended race through love. Let us do the same and leave our egos behind.
September 1st, 2010 at 1:16 am
The wonderful thing about poetry is that it can mean different things to the reader. Our prayers go up to God. Our spirit moans with yearning for God’s presence. It is the that yearning itself that is our answer to our prayer. It is the fact that we do yearn for God that pleases God. To be as that faithful dog moaning and crying for his master … to love God that much is the goal.
September 1st, 2010 at 1:41 am
Joe my basenji loves hearing this
September 1st, 2010 at 2:34 am
hizir in turkish and the balkan muslims
September 1st, 2010 at 3:11 am
Rumi was great Afghan, along with many others who came out of Balkh.
September 1st, 2010 at 3:43 am
My friend Bernie turned me on to this poem….so beautiful. Thank you Bernie. oxoxox
September 1st, 2010 at 4:02 am
One has to understand that when the poem was written (in the first quarter of the 20th century) all Muslim countries (with the only exception of Turkey and Afghanistan) were partially or completely colonized by the West. The full title of the book is:
(The Strike of Moses: i.e. Declaration of War Against the Modern Age)
Iqbal was deeply disturbed by how the Middle East was colonized by the West during and after the WW1.
Thanks.
September 1st, 2010 at 4:44 am
It is first of 6 lines of the poem Kaafir-o Momin (non-believer and believer), in the context of colonialism:
Yesterday Khizar told me over the riverbank,
You are seeking an antidote for the colonizing West?
I have a point like a sword,
Piercing, polished, shiny, and illuminating,
The characteristic of a non-believer is that he is lost in the universe,
The characteristic of a be believer is that the universe is lost in him.
(From: Zarb-e Kaleem, i.e. the strike of Moses)
September 1st, 2010 at 4:58 am
please translate kal saahil-e darya pe kaha mujh se Khizar ney?
September 1st, 2010 at 5:25 am
His best performance of Rumi’s work is an interview with Bill Moyers called “Love’s Confusing Joy”. I can’t find it on DVD in decent quality, but the VHS is so worth it! This is a wonderful example, but it pales in comparison to that interview and performance. Thanks!
September 1st, 2010 at 6:03 am
For those of you who are wondering what Mr. Barks says at 1:57. He means Khidar (pronounced Khizar in some languages like Urdu). In the Middle Eastern poetry, he is “the guide”, who can help at times. Like Iqbal says: “kal saahil-e darya pe kaha mujh se Khizar ney”,
September 1st, 2010 at 6:03 am
super! very impressive and touchable by heart
September 1st, 2010 at 6:45 am
ALLAH O AKHBAR
September 1st, 2010 at 7:29 am
THank Coleman Barks for bringing such Beauty to the West.
September 1st, 2010 at 8:11 am
lls lmmfa
rothflmmfao!!!
i remember this
September 1st, 2010 at 8:24 am
I hadn’t seen this before but the whole song is awesome.
September 1st, 2010 at 9:19 am
i hope all mother,s can find the will to get off of drugs this is a song but its true ( you get picked on )
September 1st, 2010 at 9:39 am
Anyone remember this?? How could I have been exposed to such music.
Think they’ll ever do a “Where are they now video”?? :P
September 1st, 2010 at 10:11 am
Somebody sad this 2 but thanks cuz i remember this song from when i was real little & been looking 4 it lol… !
September 1st, 2010 at 10:21 am
harsh lol
September 1st, 2010 at 10:29 am
i dedicate this song to lil wayne that’s why he’s so fuked up now…wack as performer..or whatever the fuk he is
September 1st, 2010 at 11:02 am
Sooooo funny! I love this. I am so glad my momma wasn’t on CRACK! I would have been beating ass!
I wonder what those kids are up to now?
September 1st, 2010 at 11:03 am
OMFG THIS SHIT REMINDS ME WHEN I WAS LIKE 6 OR 7… I CAN DIE HAPPY NOW THAT I HEARD THIS AGAIN THANKS… LMAO
September 1st, 2010 at 11:36 am
LOL they had Vanilla Ice “Ninja rap” hahaha
September 1st, 2010 at 12:31 pm
classic
September 1st, 2010 at 12:40 pm
if you’re from miami you remember the jokes ( wit yo disco rick gold)
September 1st, 2010 at 1:01 pm
I used to hate this song and got into a lot fights because of it. My mother was actually on crack and I had to fight a lot back then. Looking at the video as an adult, I find it more a cautionary tale about crack for that time.
September 1st, 2010 at 1:59 pm
YO RICK – WHAT YOU SAN?!?!?!
September 1st, 2010 at 2:07 pm
wow… JUKE BOX… !!
September 1st, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Good Lord…AND it’s from the old channel the Box…WHAAAT! I feel so old. We got in trouble for singing this in school…
September 1st, 2010 at 2:58 pm
@boysaggsniffer got yo ass beaten by yo mama on crack rock ?
September 1st, 2010 at 3:55 pm
@kapreeshus With todays shit, I wouldn’t say this was H-H lowest point. This jam has more meaning than 90% of rap being out out today. The Dogs weren’t that bad in my opinion.
September 1st, 2010 at 4:23 pm
you know a lot of kids got this song sang to them back in the day.
September 1st, 2010 at 5:03 pm
keep your ears open
September 1st, 2010 at 5:30 pm
see…this iz why the JUKEBOX (BOX) is no longer around, because they were the only network that took the chance to bring us the rawest vids. (mtv,bet,fuse,vh1) tell me what i wanna see, but if they really knew what i wanna see – they would play it and more, but never had the balls. we should demand the JUKEBOX back on the air from VIACOM…but they wud have to drop the charges per vid…. ’cause web sites offer em 4 free-hmmmm i remember all the ass beatings i got 4 runnin’ up the phone bill
September 1st, 2010 at 5:51 pm
lmmmmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaaaaoooooooo
September 1st, 2010 at 6:49 pm
never seen this. THIS IS WILD
September 1st, 2010 at 7:25 pm
I used to say that to my neighbor all the time when I was a kid. LOL
September 1st, 2010 at 8:20 pm
lol…. so cruel…. ::