Cooking with Heart for the Shebi Aruzi
Dear Friends, Many blessings to you and season's greetings. This Thursday 17th December is the annual commemoration of the passing of Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi to the realm of “Union with the Beloved”, known as Shebi Aruzi, or "Wedding Night". I invite you to join us in participating together to honour the Master Rumi, and the beauty experienced through him. This year owing to the Covid 19 pandemic, it isn't possible to join together physically as is customary, to share in a meal, and in the sacred dance and remembrance of the Divine names. However this need not be an obstacle. In the Mevlevi tradition the preparation of food plays a significant role in ‘conscious action’ to remind us of the need and benefit of taking deliberate and conscious action to help us in the development of our ‘real’ selves, to awaken from the sleep of ordinary life, turning to the heart which guides us to the Divine Presence. To this end I invite you to join with me in a simple exercise: Prepa