Through The Wheat Fields of China and Fez –(Robert Luongo, New York 1995)
It is real plus fictional encounters from multi-sources.At the end, the reader had to make a choice. Be free or perplexed. A seeker with six masks. Ask Wu Ming, Shabistari, Hafiz or Chuang Tzi. Attar is too fragrant. )
This morning after Dawn Fajar prayer at 5.38 am Nov.2006, as the seeker goes down to his Library room and his eyes fall unto a little grey Book. In the centre, two Strange Chinese characters in Red appear in a Green background. Bingo…Nothing is Coincidence as my forward oriented Friend from
Library of Congress Catalog No.95-0722311.
ISBN 0-9631722-4-7 Remember this book. Will quoted later as ..GT.RL.SQ. Not written for the over fed. Guide To Kulchur, printed in 1938.
One two-one two flowing football run with Cesc Fabregas and Theo Walcott will kick your nuts to arrived at
All Money is False. Replace first number with first alphabet. 1221 and ends with Special letter no.19. Guess it, then you can read those blogs.
( Are you confused. Enter the wrong page. Where reality start and fiction ends. Jean Rufin Globalia revisited by Abu Bakr Rieger).
Our best Grammy award this 2009 Year of the
2. Sage kings or Amirs cannot be disobeyed.
3. The Empire shall be attacked by quitoxic hackers..
( Who can get me a copy of his book-
The Pattern of Man, maybe published in
I would like to thank Abdassamad Clarke of
Appropriately left to Last, as the single most important influence and aid in my own life’s Journey, is my Sufic Master Shaykh Dr.Abdal Qadir as-Sufi , whom I thank for his pre-eminent contribution toward my accomplishing this study of Ezra Pound. His first novel The Book of Strangers-1972, Luzac,
The ideogram depicts the sun’s silk descending as tensile rays:
Making Clear (bayan), Discriminating (furqan),
Revealing ( kasyfu), Manifesting ( izhar ):
descending light held taut between the Celestial
and the Terrestial ( samawi /ardhi ), intersecting
with Leaves or layers of shale, as horizontals:
descending warp threads as they cross the woof.
An elite is distinguished by those who, while seeking that ‘blinding light’, recognized that they are charged in this world with stabling ‘order’ and ‘brotherly deference’. Hence, no Taozers mooching about, begging for alms to build gold palaces for the ‘Bhud’. And since young Sidhartha rejected all that and set out to travel, what makes them think he would want that place. ‘No Monkery’, said the Prophet. Confucius, too were not no taozer, while he was on the Tao(Path) of the Ancients. Unlike the passive interpretation that led to a spiritual decadence, Master Kung Fu Tze and rulers who followed him in his mobilized understanding were concerned with ‘order-tao’ and ‘brotherly deference’.
At the end of his life, Pound believed he didn’t know much. He was freed of a great illusion.
Let the Wind speak ( put forward by the One )
That is
Post Face (page 113)
There was a great man of the 18th century by the name of Mawlay al-Arabi ad-Darqawi who said an extraordinary thing. This man who is called Shaykh of Instruction, said about the path (the Way) of Knowledge that lies through the Wheat Field. He meant by this that the way (tao or tariqa) is Service : serving people. In this we can hear the words of the ancient Chinese sages who, while occupied with the rectification and purification of their hearts, simultaneously were engaged in establishing justice, maintaining the granaries (food supply), facilitating irrigation and cultivation of the land and proctecting the channels of distribution and commerce.
They were the preservers of the forms of courtesy (adab) and noble character (khulq) through the remembrance of the still more ancient odes and rituals. It is precisely by turning away (tajrid) from the self and its arena of worldly ambition (zuhd) together with turning towards the needs of the others (pillar of zakat) and accepting ( and taking) authority (amirship) that real leadership (khalifate-sultaniyya) comes about.
Living today there is a teacher who is the inheritor of this knowledge and is the heir of Shaykh ad-Darqawi. Having benefit and privilege of sitting in his company I will relate what he explained as a further clarification of the line by the Master ad-Darqawi:
‘the Way leads through the Wheat Fields’
‘Those people who seek that knowledge which leads
on to perfection of Absolute Being in which all existence
other than the Existent (Real)
is annihilated are like growing field of wheat.
These people, bowing and bending in the wind, rising up
and standing golden brown in the summer’s sun are the shafts
that will make the autumn’s harvest.
Now this wheat must be cut, threshed and the chaff separated, then ground under the weight of enormous stones to be turned into flour. This flour must be salted and yeasted, allowed to rise, then punched down to rise again. The dough is then molded and shaped and put into ovens and baked under s great heat. What come out is bread that now must be sliced and given to people to eat.
The kernel of this metaphor is that those people of Knowledge are the leaders : they establish governance based on justice; they clean up and purify the trading markets, I mean by prohibiting usury, fraud and any form of monopoly.
Such a people, no longer driven by ambition and pride, no longer imagining that they are creators of their actions, are set Free.
This is the condition of those that rule and are caretakers of traditions and the preservers of language’.
Ezra Pound recognized the existence of this quality of being in the great Chinese sages and to, a somewhat more limited degree, in other of his heroes who appear in the Cantos.
It cannot be said however that Pound possessed the Science how to make men and women who are able to change both themselves and the world around them. That is another matter. The fact that he was able to see some of the triumphant possibilities that belong to man, expressing their deepest nature, raises him up as signpost on the road side. Herein lies the epitaph of the poet.
The analogy of the wheat field is drawn from a source that affirms a knowing of how to guide and instruct, through the steps of transformation, those people who desire it. This is the highest knowledge. My teacher Shaykh Abdal Qadir as-sufi who
encouraged me to write this book (in mind of the need of future
Eastern disciples), is such a rare model teacher.
The gold thread in the pattern goes on and on. We must realize our Need and it must be Great. Unable to accept being a slave to tyranny, man needs courage to change.
The terra firma of our very existence is under siege. How we transact in our lives, what in Arabic called Deen, must be freed from the impediments of ignorance and tyranny.
I keep hearing the lines from the Cantos LXXXI ’. The man saw it all ! exclaimed my campanero’ as we sat in the Cypriot café across from Kensington Garden. London, England. Hold your breath. Whisper :
‘Andiamo’. Fa ayna tazhabun. Antumul fuqara.
The ideogram ‘hsien’ a pierching light, is enormously important to the understanding of Pound. It is the light that descend upon man, Dante’s Divine Intellect. ..the pre-Socratic philosophers and Ibn Rushd and Ibn Sina and al-Kindi come into it. The Neo-Confucian sages, also, of course, are present. These are the men of great intellect within the discourse of The Cantos IV.
From the well planned gardens of the Confucian China,
through the date groves of Madinah and on into Andalucia
(Averroes was born in Cordoba), a well Trodden Path can be Found.
At the age of sixteen, this seeker set off for the University of Pennsylvania. Hilda said: ‘ He was immensely sophiscated, immensely superior, rough and ready..One would dance with him for what he might say !’. He publish his first volume of poems- A Lume Spento. He also met T.S.Elliot, who also endured trials of brotherhood and intimate collaboration that spanned more than 50 years. He nailed a notice of the Wall Street:
A NATION
THAT WILL NOT GET ITSELF
INTO DEBT
DRIVES THE USURERS
TO FURY
‘I o venni in luogo d’ogni luce muto’
This corrupting the ‘word’, abuse of ‘real money’ in its deepest Confucian sense, give rise to usury. Aristotle said;
‘ Money is not energy nor it is procreative.
You cannot inseminate (sexualize) with it or plant it.
Money is not a commodity and therefore not to be rented
(what do we say today about Loan, Credit, Treasury Bills, Future-Junks Bond, Stocks and Shares that fluctuate its values every seconds on
the Dow Jones, Nikkei, LSE, NasdaQ… currencies cyber robotic numbers moving across the world to suck up men women children bloods, sweats and tears. More Mr. Smiths replicate and enter into your friends bodies and troubling us unknowingly. Kill the self. Wipe out the Nafs. Get unwired from blue rated Mirrors to your desires.
In Malaysia, one advert proudly said : Get your Islamic Platinum Mastercard. No compounding interest monthly, Unsurpassable spending power to Muslims world wide..”. Islamic bond markets worth RM1.5 trillions are ripe for takings.
PART TWO – THE GOLD THREAD – ROBERT LUONGO
Nine Sages taught us : ‘ Keep to silent, when in unknown spiritual states. But only One Sage whispering to us : Speak little, swim in your own ocean, before emerging to flash your Dragon-like wisdom Fire’.
Canto XCVIII :
The Praiseworthy in sympathy : ‘is part of Religion’
It’s passion would be ‘ seeking knowledge even unto China.
The strength of men Kuan Nine decrees, 8th essay.
Is in grain Tzu Canto CVI.
The ideogram Kuan = To Govern.
Second ideogram Tzu = the Master
( Very close the the meaning of Khalifa in Arabic. Ba’aya is to obey/give authority-power to a ruler, demanded by Shariat/Sunna).
When joined give us the acronym name for the Neo Confucian
Kuan Chung, minister (Wazir) of one Province. ( Is he both a Ruler and
A Sagely man who wrote the 9th Decrees (Fatwa)
The Prophet said in sixth century C.D. ;
‘ Leadership is a responsibility Binding on good men’.
‘ His wanting it disqualified him from having it’.
Making a Scene Shift, a literary device or trick as Ezra called them
To show two correlatives in history (two ends of one tally stick).
Consequently we will ask:
Why are Scottish and Irish people are not allowed
To have free lands ? Why, with both Spain and
France being great leaders of democracies, are
The neighboring people of the Basque nation
Not allowed to exist as such ? Not free to Govern my own people.
Mencius , the Confucian who lived 100 years after the Master, said :
‘ None of our Sages ever wanted or sought public office. They took it as obligation binding upon them. When out of office, they returned to their original work of rectifying (purification-illumination) their hearts ‘
Motto : It is a bank privilege to earn interest
On money which it create out of nothing.
Ask the International Hedge Fund Managers – reported by NST 12 September 2006 and praised by Sekuntrate Fizance Minstor’ , Qarazya welcome the USD300 billions hot money , foreign ventures capital to invest in our local financial Markets.
When the Master was asked about how to rule, Confucius warned ;
“First act of the Government-Rulers is to call things by their Right Names, Ming Qing ’. What is the World Money now ? Can we use any currency we like when we travel ? No. Just a Plastic Card will Do !. Give me your Golden Secret PIN Account Number !.
Gentle Man, your are just a Number and Computer Code. The Matrix has invaded your Consciousness, no way out. May trekking into the Desert of Tafilalet south Maghribi or Rajastan desert , Ajmer Sharif where the great Chistiyya masters used to roam and do da’wah among the poors..
Now in order to Survive, crafty Old Chuang Tzu give us several pathways as follow :
Hold on to the Unwobbling Pivot ( Chung Yung )
Sit with teachers who Instruct from the Great Learning (Ta Hsio)
Few will understand from The Analect (Lun Yun)
Then refer to Ernest Fenollosa, Gaudier Brzeska.
The Century of Usurocracy brought about the final
Destruction of all Europe’s ruling monarchies as well
As the Islamic Caliphate.
Sought the Four Axis (Awtad) who will often have
To speak the Language of the Time, the
Dialect of the Place
( p. 8 first line, no fiction here, check GT.RLSQ)
More Quotation From The Gold Thread
Robert Luongo’s study of Ezra Pound’s reveals a fundamental awareness; that whenever men are truly free they will chose leaders from amongst themselves who have placed self discipline and the preservation of values as their guiding principles. Natural order emerges whereby leadership becomes an ‘ obligation binding on good men’
Returning to an example from Pound’s translation of the Ta Hsio of Confucius, a definitive clarification of the ageless wisdom follows:
‘ The men of old (ancient sages), wanting to clarify and diffuse throughout the empire that light which comes from looking into the heart and when then acting , first set up good government in their own states; wanting good government in their states, they first establish order in their own families; wanting order in home, they first disciplined themselves; desiring self-discipline, they rectified their hearts and wanting to rectify their hearts, they sought precise verbal definitions of their thoughts (tones given off by the heart), wishing to attain precise definition (of words/language), they set out to extend their knowledge to utmost. This completion of knowledge is rooted in sorting things (reality) into organic categories (of meanings/usage).’
The sickness of our age can be traced to the perversion of ‘money, culminating in deaths of countless numbers, the devastation taking place in Brazil, Mexico, Somalia, along with the destruction of the very lungs of our planets (forests)…this all due to humanly and mathematically impossible national debts.
DILIGITE IUSTITIAM QUI IUDICATIS TERRAM.
..that will exist between men of knowledge, regardless of the varying times and places in which they lived, is true, it is imperative
to seek new Terrain.
The highest role for man is to point towards those of knowledge.
“ There came a man running from the furthest part of the city calling: follow the Messengers’ is a verse from the Koran that points to a person who will speak up.
Mencius said : Is there any difference between killing him
With a sword and with a system of government ?”
The Cantos are as much a great telling of history, seen from the perspicacious prow of the poet’s craft , as they are one man’s passionate response to the Divine. His search for knowledge was never divorce from action.
Oh you who believe, fear God
And give up what remains of your demand
For usury, if you are indeed believers.
If you do not, take notice
Of War from God and His Messenger -Quran: 2:275-279
P.104. Without the love of learning, good men become bad ones.
You have heard the Six Words and the Six Becloudings ?
There is love of being benevolent
Without the love of learning, the
Beclouding here leads to foolish simplicity.
The love of knowing without the love
Of learning, whereof the beclouding brings
Dissipation of mind.
Of being sincere without the love of learning
Here beclouding causes disregard of the consequence.
Of straight forwardness without the
Love of learning whereof beclouding leads to rudeness.
Of boldness, without the love of learning, whereof
The beclouding bring insubordination.
The love of firmness with the love of learning,
Whereof the beclouding conduces to extravagant conduct.
Until this lines, reader should realize that Robert Luongo from New York is a daring sophisicated muslim and far more significant he had sat at the circle of the Master as an American faqir.
Meanwhile we heard that Master Izi, Dr.Zuigan and Prof. Anqaravi last year had successfully renovated their Dailin Nur Institute in the hilly Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyoto, Japan. New students intake will begin in summer June 2007. Are you interested or your friends.
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Greetings from the Cape of Good Hope.
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