{"id":848,"date":"2023-09-18T16:50:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T00:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?p=848"},"modified":"2023-09-18T16:51:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T00:51:34","slug":"the-cure-for-selfishness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?p=848","title":{"rendered":"The Cure for Selfishness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rumi teaches that &#8220;love&#8221; is a &#8220;healer&#8221;: it heals the most devastating disease that can afflict our character- selfishness. Love purges all character flaws and moral defects. Rumi says:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnyone whose garment is rent by a mighty love, is purged of covetousness and all defect.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Hail, O&#8217; Love, that bring us good gain- you are the healer of all our ills.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>You are the remedy for our pride and vainglory; you are our Plato and our Galen!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this presentation, we will discuss Rumi&#8217;s teachings on the cure for selfishness, and offer some practical tips to fight selfishness.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2805\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/07-21-2023.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('2805','http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/07-21-2023.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/07-21-2023.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?powerpress_pinw=848-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/07-21-2023.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"07-21-2023.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumi teaches that &#8220;love&#8221; is a &#8220;healer&#8221;: it heals the most devastating disease that can afflict our character- selfishness. Love purges all character flaws and moral defects. Rumi says:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone whose garment is rent by a mighty love, is purged of covetousness and all defect.<br \/>\nHail, O&#8217; Love, that bring us good gain- you are the healer of all our ills.<br \/>\nYou are the remedy for our pride and vainglory; you are our Plato and our Galen!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this presentation, we will discuss Rumi&#8217;s teachings on the cure for selfishness, and offer some practical tips to fight selfishness.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2806\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/07-21-2023.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('2806','http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/07-21-2023.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/07-21-2023.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?powerpress_pinw=848-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/07-21-2023.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"07-21-2023.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}