{"id":1427,"date":"2012-10-02T14:20:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T20:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2012-10-02T14:20:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T20:20:29","slug":"where-is-your-furniture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/2012\/10\/where-is-your-furniture\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is your Furniture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A wonderful teaching to sit with from the Sufi, read it and contemplate it\u2026remember we are not collectors here on this planet, we are tourists, traveling and exploring.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">A western man came to a Sufi Master to learn, as he heard about him from others that he is an enlightened soul. When the searcher entered to his house, he saw that an old Sufi was sitting on the corner, alone.<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">He was shocked and asked the Sufi: ` I heard that you are a famous<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Sufi and here you are simply sitting without any furniture even a bed, how is it possible?\u2019<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Sufi master laughed and asked him: \u2018Where is your furniture?\u2019<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">He said: ` I am a tourist and no tourist carry his furniture with him.\u2019<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Sufi master looked in to his eyes and replied:`I too a tourist, just a tourist and tourist never carry any furniture with him.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/221\/2012\/10\/SekhFaceKarnak.1.-15Bright.15.P1210024.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1428\" title=\"SekhFaceKarnak.1.-15Bright.15.P1210024\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/221\/2012\/10\/SekhFaceKarnak.1.-15Bright.15.P1210024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"317\"><\/a><\/p>\n<hr noshade width=\"100%\">\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A western man came to a Sufi Master to learn, as he heard about him from others that he is an enlightened soul. When the searcher entered to his house, he saw that an old Sufi was sitting on the corner, alone.<br \/>\nHe was shocked and asked the Sufi: ` I heard that you are a famous<br \/>\nSufi and here you are simply sitting without any furniture even a bed, how is it possible?&#8217; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[62,93,163,285,359,376,623,942,681,1045,725],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual","category-uncategorized","tag-awareness","tag-breath","tag-david-matthew-brown","tag-heart","tag-laugh","tag-listen","tag-sufi","tag-the-naked-mystic","tag-understanding","tag-where-is-your-furniture","tag-wrestling-with-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}