Faruk Dilaver


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Faruk Dilaver was one of Allah's servants, whom He called "My Beloved", who devoted his life to the human family, to serve for the transformation of people through their self-discovery of self-worth, and to "make hearts" as Yunus Emre put it. Throughout his precious life, as a teacher of life and awareness, he shared all his knowledge, studies and acquaintance with Yunus Emre within the framework of Sufi teachings with his followers and followers. Faruk Dilaver was a guiding Sufi school that enabled people to establish their material-spiritual balance in their lives and to reach their personal goals in the most reasonable ways. Blessed are those who are in touch with him... This work, which succinctly reflects the life story and philosophy of Faruk Dilaver, one of the Yunus Emre volunteer researcher writers of our age, offers its readers the opportunity to get to know him briefly.




A Sufi's Journey to Truth


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“We have known each other through all of eternity. The Beloved is connected to all of us through our inner heart. So how can we be strangers when we know each other so intimately.” Have you ever looked into the eye of love? I was walking in a crowded street with my friend. Suddenly, everyone coming in the opposite direction started greeting him. I thought, “How could this happen? There is no way everyone knows him!” I started writing this book out of this curiosity. In the end, I also looked into the eye of love and became acquainted with our Beloved. This book is based on a true story and only the names are changed. It is written in the loving memory of our beloved Haci Ahmet Kayhan Dede, the Yunus Emre of our century.




In The Footsteps Of Yunus Emre


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Yunus, the subject of that infinite realization that cannot be described in a book, is undoubtedly one of the most important spiritual figures of Anatolia in the world heritage. Understanding him and the lovers of Truth like him and generously spreading their understanding on the earth in line with their actions can only be a source of pride for a person. For this reason, so that we can live a life in the footsteps of our Yunus Emre and see him... Let's get acquainted Let's make it easy Let us love and be loved The world will not be left to anyone Yunus Emre




The Flame of Transformation Turns to Light (Ninety-Nine Ghazals Written in English) / Poems


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THE FLAME OF TRANSFORMATION TURNS TO LIGHT is a book of poems in traditional ghazal form, the first half begun in Turkey, companion volume to "open form" poems written at a later visit, published in 2006 as Love is a Letter Burning in a High Wind (The Ecstatic Exchange). Visiting the epiphany-inducing tombs of Mevlana Rumi and his spiritual companion Shems in Konya, their baraka bathing the journey, the grave of Turkey's great native Sufi poet, Yunus Emre, and traveling through a land of such subtle spirituality, these poems chronicle an imagistic diary through both interior and exterior countrysides, with the second half continued in the same vein at home in Philadelphia.




I Imagine a Lion / Poems


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I IMAGINE A LION - Poems in the devotional visionary tradition of Blake, Rumi, Christopher Smart, McClure. Ecstatic recognitions from both within and without our heartfelt common cosmic consciousness. "In the forest of matter so tightly meshed you/can't see the weave/I imagine a lion./Sometimes it's a table, sometmes it's chairs./Lion eyes out of the dark./Lion purrs when silence descends."




Yunus Emre The Dervish's Journey and Storytelling


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With this book, you can get information about the great Turkish dervish Yunus Emre and you can also learn the most important elements of storytelling. It is for those who want to both get to know a bit the Allah's beloved Yunus Emre and his sayings and to be informed of the significant point of storytelling. Table of Contents: The Whole Wide World, Who am I?, The Reference I Used for Yunus Emre: The Dervish's Story, If You Would Ever Question Me, Yunus Emre's Authentic Life Story, I am Before, I am After, Arriving at Taptuk Emre’s Door, A Full Grasp of Knowledge, Yunus the Lumberjack, Hear Me Out, Other Disciples, Your Love, The Tables from the Sky, The Friend Belongs to Me, Coming Back to the Taptuk, Death Enjoys His Ruses, Coming Towards the End, The Wide World, On the Road Again, The Lovers of Allah, Meeting with Rumi the DervishThe Dervish Path, Dear Friend, Getting Started with Storytelling…, If I Found Him, How to Find a Story Idea?,The Mystic Life, The Life of Yunus Emre and Things to Know for a Storyteller, A True Lover, The Beginning of ConflictsThe Sea, Moment of Crisis, The Blinking of an Eye, Solution Point, A Stranger, A Final Example: Prophet Muhammad…, A Soul Greetings to those who read in the light of Allah's beloved servants. With love to all…




Salt Prayers


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SALT PRAYERS / POEMS, a tangy and rich chronological collection of poems ranging from molecular flakes to imaginal scalings of rare and lofty mountains, written between May 29 -- October 24, 1998 by the poet of Dawn Visions (City Lights, 1964), Burnt Heart (City Lights, 1972), The Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company (1967-69), The Desert is the Only Way Out, The Chronicles of Akhira (Zilzal Press), The Ramadan Sonnets (Jusoor/City Lights, 1996), The Blind Beekeeper (Jusoor/Syracuse University Press, 2002) and The Ecstatic Exchange Series, beginning with Mars & Beyond, and Laughing Buddha Weeping Sufi (2005).




Love Writings Inspired By Yunus Emre


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The tongue speaks, the ear listens; the heart speaks, the universe listens' Anatolian dervish, the beloved Yunus Emre, a opens the door to a thousand and one cognitions with his word; to his saying expands the chest of the one who listens. This is the ninety-nine was inspired by his extraordinary imprint.




Laughing Buddha Weeping Sufi / Poems


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"Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps."(William Blake) A cooly impassioned, and "pathward" adventurous series of poems joining two modes of enlightenment, Buddhist and Sufi, that may in many ways be parallel-from my sitting with saintly Shunryu Suzuki of the San Francisco Zen Center in the early 60s, and my blessed time with Qutb Shaykh ibn al-Habib of Fez in Meknes, Morocco, in the 1970s, may Allah be pleased with both of them. Are the two protagonists of these poems the main characters in Waiting for Godot, now no longer waiting, but there? Exalted humor lightens our spiritual endeavors.




Love Is a Letter Burning in a High Wind / Poems


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LOVE IS A LETTER BURNING IN A HIGH WIND is a chronicle in sequential open field poems of a second visit to Turkey (the first recorded in formal ghazals), and to the glorious atmospheres of Sufi Master Mevlana Rumi and his gnostic teacher, Shams. Included are three extended narrative poems in the thematic style of Rumi's Masnawi, undertaken with no plot or source other than spontaneous inspiration. characterized by talking animals and "decapitated" watermelons. Ecstatic lyricism and sweet apprehension the impulse and goal to glorify and praise this swift life and its Originator and Sustainer: Sometimes I get tired of all this talk about God/ and I just want to go and sit under a tree// but then the tree starts talking to me about God/ and we find ourselves in another conversation