A Thousand Ears

"What is the deep listening?
'Sama' is a greeting from the secret ones
inside the heart, a letter.
The branches of your intelligence grow
new leaves in the wind of this listening.
Rooster sound comes,
reminding you of your love for dawn.

The reed flute and the singer's lips:
the knack of how spirit breathes into us
becomes as simple and ordinary
as eating and drinking.

The dead rise with the pleasure of listening,
if someone can't hear a trumpet melody,
sprinkle dirt on his head and declare him dead.

Listen, and feel the beauty of your separation,
the unsayable absence.

There's a moon inside every human being.
Learn to be companions with it. Give
more of your life to this listening.

As brightness is to time, so you are to
the one who talks to the deep ear
in your chest.

I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears
when that one steps near and begins to speak."

~ Rumi posted by Cyndy | link | | |
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