#rumi
Rumi, a 13th century Persian spiritual teacher, was asked:
What is spiritual maturity?
- It's when we stop trying to change others and focus on changing ourselves.
- It is when we accept people as they are.
- It is when we understand that everyone is correct according to their own perspective.
- It is when we learn to "let go".
- It is when we are able to not have "expectations" in a relationship, and we give of ourselves for the pleasure of giving.
- It is when we understand that what we do, we do for our own peace.
- It's when we stop showing the world how smart we are.
- It's when we stop seeking approval from others.
- It's when we stop comparing ourselves to others.
- It is when we are at peace with ourselves.
- It is when we are able to distinguish between "need" and "want" and we are able to let go of that want.
- Spiritual maturity is gained when we stop attaching "happiness" to material things!
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Do not
try to quiet
your mind
Let it run free
The key is
don’t follow it
The mind is the
horse out of the barn
Go ahead
Let it run free
Stay right
where you are
Look at a star
You’re a
part of them
in a certain way
Take for instance the
elements in The Milky Way
Like
the horse,
let your mind
keep running free,
deep, so deep, far
off into infinite Sky
The key is
don’t follow it
instead merge your
mind with “Original I”
Now focus
on the space inside
Between the
thoughts in your mind
This is where
your freedom dwells
Not in distant
heavens or hells
Right here in the
calm peacefulness
between all thoughts
in this tranquil space
Abide right here
In this idyllic place
Ensconce
yourself there
Bunker down Now
This is the
humble abode of the
hidden mysterious Tao
Flowing
in Equanimity
This my friend
is truly Reality
Everything else
is but an illusion,
an ephemeral dream
It will seem
like deja vu
Reality will come
rushing in on you
This is when life opens
up to limitless possibilities
Unlimited opportunities
You
can choose
anything at all
Follow
your heart
You’ll rise and fall
Then
get up and
continue on
to fulfill your
wildest dreams
whatever they may be
As Bob Dylan sang:
“Why it’s so unique
to be among the
loving people living free”
You’re so
unequaled
Free and alive
Yet
that’s not
nearly enough,
The secret is to
continually thrive
Gulp in the
entire universe
“One love, one heart”
Bob Marley’s Reggae verse
That’s the
horse that’s free
It runs for you and me
“One love, one heart”
It’s inside all of us
Your love, our love
We’ve never been apart
“One love, one heart”
The answers
never out there
Chasing thoughts
running in your mind
It’s creations greatest art
The lights on in your heart
In the
darkest of darkness
Your light will set you apart
Just be your
true authentic self
Nothing more nothing less
Truth
Yes Truth
Nothing more
Nothing less
That’s
the greatest
sign of success
epc 1956-♾
Imagine quote: #Rumi
David Darling, Coleman Barks, & Ty Burhoe perform "Bach Vocalese"
#live #performance #David-Darling #Coleman-Barks #Ty-Burhoe #Rumi
Salvador Dali ~ Young Girl Standing at the Window 1925
'Listen to silence. It has so much to say.'
#salvadordali #younggirlstandingatthewindow #1925 #art #oil-on-paper #classical #realism #painting #rumi #silence #quote
https://youtube.com/watch?v=iauAnH6E6ho
#spiritual #music
The Reed Flute’s Song
Listen to the story told by the reed,
of being separated.
“Since I was cut from the reedbed,
I have made this crying sound.
Anyone apart from someone he loves
understands what I say.
Anyone pulled from a source
longs to go back.
At any gathering I am there,
mingling in the laughing and grieving,
a friend to each, but few
will hear the secrets hidden
within the notes. No ears for that.
Body flowing out of spirit,
spirit up from body: no concealing
that mixing. But it’s not given us
to see the soul. The reed flute
is fire, not wind. Be that empty.”
Hear the love fire tangled
in the reed notes, as bewilderment
melts into wine. The reed is a friend
to all who want the fabric torn
and drawn away. The reed is hurt
and salve combining. Intimacy
and longing for intimacy, one
song. A disastrous surrender
and a fine love, together. The one
who secretly hears this is senseless.
A tongue has one customer, the ear.
A sugarcane flute has such effect
because it was able to make sugar
in the reedbed. The sound it makes
is for everyone. Days full of wanting,
let them go by without worrying
that they do. Stay where you are
inside such a pure, hollow note.
Every thirst gets satisfied except
that of these fish, the mystics,
who swim a vast ocean of grace
still somehow longing for it!
No one lives in that without
being nourished every day.
But if someone doesn’t want to hear
the song of the reed flute,
it’s best to cut conversation
short, say good-bye, and leave.
~ #Rumi
Parisa the master of persian classical music singing #Rumi with members of #Dastan Ensemble in vancover #Canada
She became famous in the 70s during the international music concerts that Farah Pahlavi, the wife of last Shah of Iran had set up in Shiraz.
For almost 30 years after revolution she was silenced by the taliban mullahs of IRI, but in early 2000 she was allowed to travel abroad and hold some concerts. Unfortunately I never managed to meet her in person or watch her live.
the 3 guys in the ensemble are old friend of my brother in Germany and we spent a lot of fun time together both in Sweden and New York when my brother was their concert organizer.
Parisa's voice is magical, despite her old age, she still has an amazingly beautiful voice.
In here, she is singing a song based on poems of Rumi.
#Iran #Music #Parisa #Culture
Astronomy and Spirituality Have Much in Common
Long ago, Giordano Bruno wrote of an infinity of worlds and life in the cosmos: "He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds." As was often the case with the western mystics, he was burned at the stake for sharing his revelations, his "heresy". Such has been the fate of numerous gnostic souls and other mystics. Around that very same time but further to the East in India, Guru Nanak also sang that there are countless earths, spheres, moons, suns oceans, living creatures and beings, millions of skies above skies: "Many millions are the skies and solar systems. Many millions are the moons, the suns and stars. Many millions are the sources of creation and continents. Many millions are the jewel containing oceans. Many times has the universal expanse occurred." And rather than being condemned for his intuitive insights, Guru Nanak is considered to be one of India's greatest spiritual masters and saints. His Morning Prayer (Jap Ji) is sung and recited as sacred scripture by millions.
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Today on this Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast we explore the similarities between the empirical, scientific path of astronomy and the intuitive way of the mystics, how both explore space, inner and outer, during the dark hours before the dawn, how both have a lens they use to focus with in order to gaze into realms of subtle light from beyond what is normally perceived, and tune the cosmic radio dial listening for faint signals or sounds coming from beyond the cosmic static. The bigness of the "known" cosmos keeps on getting bigger! Actually, it is our awareness that's growing, seeing more and more of That Which Is. I find astronomy and mysticism have much in common. Like Galileo discovering new worlds through the lens of his telescope, mystics have been trying to tell humanity for eons of something quite similar. The reason why the contemplative state of being is still hidden from most of us is that, unlike Galileo’s telescope, in order to look through this particular lens, the third eye or inner vision, we mustn't be stuck always focusing on the outward sensory impressions, but go in the opposite direction: into Inner Space during contemplative meditation. Look through the lens of the third eye to access the world of within. Tune the inner radio dial, listening for the subtle inner sounds coming from beyond the silence.
"If your eye be single, your whole body shall be full of Light." (Yeshua) "With the Divine Eye, which is purified and surpasses the human, a bhikkhu surveys a thousand worlds." (Buddha) "Within this earthen vessel are bowers and groves, and within it is the Creator. Within this vessel are the seven oceans and the unnumbered stars. The touchstone and the jewel-appraiser are within. And within this vessel the Eternal soundeth, and the spring wells up. Kabir says: 'Listen to me, my Friend! My Beloved Lord is within.'" "The Light of one soul is equal to that of sixteen suns!" (Kabir) Rumi says, "We are stars wrapped in skin -- The light you are seeking ... has always been ... within."
IMAGE (Public Domain, Courtesy of NASA): "Stephan's Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals Stephan's Quintet in a new light." And with this image there's also an "ultra deep field" of almost countless distant galaxies.
In Divine Love, Light, and Sound,
James Bean
Spiritual Awakening Radio
https://www.SpiritualAwakeningRadio.com
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