Today, it’s almost all Rumi. One of my favorite poems by him is below. Re-read it here today.
For me, this says we are all here in THIS together. Be here with everyone, don’t push anyone out or hate anyone. Feel what it really means to relax yourself in the midst of suffering, or what you think is suffering.
This poem says to watch what you are afraid of and let it parade by. Don’t grab on to it. It can feel like fear can overtake us: cancer, money-all-gone, people dying, violence, slow traffic, she left me, I can’t live without her, I need to succeed, be someone, do something, I didn’t like the way he said that, she watches too much TV, I’m a bad mother, I should be more extroverted, she is too harsh, it is too hard, I don’t have enough time, my cellulite is ugly, the house is too messy, no one else cleans the dishes, I am too nervous…..
Today I notice that behind the frantic, busy, fearful little buzzing, hissing mind…is silence.
I play with relaxing and it feels like energy going right through my stomach and out the back. Everything opening, cutting through. Doesn’t matter, all is well. Everything changes.
This thing I think is so important, or worrisome? It isn’t really.
There is a community of the spirit.
Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street, and being the noise.
Drink all your passion, and be a disgrace.
Close both eyes to see with the other eye.
Open your hands, if you want to be held.
Sit down in this circle.
Quit acting like a wolf, and feel the shepherd’s love filling you.
At night, your beloved wanders.
Don’t accept consolations.
Close your mouth against food.
Taste the lover’s mouth in yours.
You moan, “She left me.” “He left me.”
Twenty more will come.
Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought!
Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.
Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.
~Rumi
Love, Grace
P.S. This intensive day I call Turning Relationship Hell To Heaven. The relationship I am referring to is….THAT UGLY, UNCOMFORTABLE ONE. It could be a partner, your mother, your sister, your job, money, your body. If you have multiple ones, don’t worry. Just start with one, we’ll help you begin to investigate just that one. Who knows what can happen from there.
Turning Relationship Hell To Heaven In-Person Intensive Seattle 12/1 10 am – 6 pm.
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Mark your calendar for Breitenbush, the end of June! We will be looking at all aspects of what we consider to be flaws in the body, and Un-doing our beliefs about them. Stay tuned if you’d like to join me and Susan Grace Beekman from June 26-30, 2013. You can change your internal beliefs about what you think bodies should be like….and change your entire experience of being in yours.
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