Explore Rumi through love, longing, Shams of Tabriz and the Buddha—an intimate reflection on mysticism, ego, awakening and the Divine Beloved. Zabān-e-yār-e-man Turkī wa man Turkī namī-dānam. The language of my beloved is Turkish, and I do not know Turkish. There is an old Persian line, commonly circulated in the orbit of Amir Khusrau, that has stayed with me for years because it describes something far larger than the inconvenience of not knowing somebody’s language. It describes the strange predicament of love itself: the beloved speaks, you do not entirely understand, and yet something in you understands before understanding becomes…