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The 13th-century Persian poet Jiang treats as a later reincarnation-like carrier of Zarathustra's truth.
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Rumi
The 13th-century Persian poet Jiang treats as a later reincarnation-like carrier of Zarathustra's truth.
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Jiang says Thomas and Rumi converge on the image of the world as a prison for drunks because both are inspired by the same source.
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Jiang treats poor prophets as divinely inspired carriers of a shared truth, so Rumi can illuminate Zarathustra across centuries.
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Rumi's poetry is read as saying that labels like Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen are secondary to the shared divine source.
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Rumi's prison-for-drunks image is interpreted as another version of Plato's cave: the soul comes from elsewhere and must return to the Monad.
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Nietzsche and Rumi are treated as reincarnations or modern carriers of Zarathustra, speaking a divine truth in different historical lenses.
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"...idea is mirrored in a poem that we read before by rumi right so you may remember uh rumi the persian poet he also..."
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"...insight into the true thinking of Zarathustra. Okay? So this is Rumi, who is considered the greatest Persian poet who has ever lived. He..."
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"I see so deeply with myself. I so see deeply with myself. Not needing my eyes, I can see everything clearly. Why would I..."
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"I don't exist. I'm not an entity in this world or in the next. Do not descend from Adam and Eve or any origin..."
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"I don't remember. I can't remember. I don't know where I came from. But I know that I must have come from somewhere. Okay?..."
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"This is a prison for drunks. Here we're all drunk. We're all blind from our true reality. This is a prison. When we return..."
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"...would basically be Nietzsche. Okay? So in many ways, Nietzsche and Rumi are reincarnations of Zoroastria. They're all trying to speak a divine truth..."
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"...all these different fields okay so the one most famous is rumi who is persian a poet a mystic a philosopher um ibn sina..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Jesus lecture: Christianity begins as a pile of impossible doctrines, the historical Jesus is thinner and stranger, the Gospel of Thomas makes him a poet-prophet of the divine spark,...
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A source-grounded reading of Zarathustra as the prophet who turns truth into a life-practice: the universe is conscious, evil is the field where virtue becomes real, organized religion is the priestly capture of fire,...
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