[-empyre-] just a litte addition

[Yves Gufflet]

what does mean senior tutor ?
(The rest was very interesting. What did you learn from Muhammad : a 
prophet of our time ? Why should he be ?)
Thanks in advance for your answer.

Best,

Yves Gufflet

Judy Cockeram a écrit :
> Hi all
>
> As a lurker on a discussion list about love it feels a little strange
> stepping forward into this light but too many little bells are ringing
> as I read the thoughts and make too many connections into my own
> experiences. Please consider this dust to be simply wiped away.
>
> Having just finished 'Muhammad : a prophet for our time' by Karen
> Armstrong I am struck by the notion of love and surrender together -as
> Islam means surrender and that the last time I was in a philosophical
> discussion about love was with a group of 17-20 year old students of
> architecture in the north west of Pakistan, on a Winter's frosty night
> around a campfire. They of course understood the physical nature of
> desire and restraint but they also enlightened me by their poetic and
> uncomplicated joy in a happy anticipation. Ah the positive and less
> cynical approach - I miss it daily.
>
> As a non phustu speaker I listened to the poems as a musical addition to
> a dark night; others then translated but in that rendering the poet
> observed the ideals now were explained into a chair with its back leg
> removed. 
> So it is from the part of the world where the media wish us to believe
> terrorism is spawned I take a metaphor for love - that toppling seat we
> try to sit on, attempting to balance: only when we relax and are still
> does the chair return, ...able, ...again, in the relationship to the
> sitter perform the act it was meant for. 
>
> So perhaps Salam is the way to end- indeed I wish you peace as we
> consider the complicated colour that love is to our world of deity and
> 17 year old. There is much to unpack. 
>
>
>
>
>
> Judy Cockeram
>
> Senior tutor 
> The School of Architecture and Planning  
> University of Auckland 
>
> New Zealand 
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