Being "Life Itself" "....the unsayable absence" Sunrise/Afternoon February 6, 2015

...It hurt to be alive as "me",
And you made me no longer one alive...

But Life itself.

Looking within, I found my Self,
And then, at my Heart's behest...

Found My Self, again, as You.
Chuck Surface

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You need not do anything.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
You need not even listen, just wait.
You need not even wait,
just learn to be quiet, still and solitary.....

....And the world will freely offer itself to you unmasked.
It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
–Franz Kafka
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/02/be-quiet.html

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
from The Glance
Coleman Barks translation
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...the unsayable absence....
Rumi
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In the Garden of The Beloved
January 30 at 10:44pm · Edited

 I cried out for Love,
But received, instead, my Heart's Desire

So much more, than the word Love,
Could ever hope to contain.

I would call it... Benediction,
Blessing, beyond measure, ever present.

Imagine... ever present.

Imagine.

The world broke my heart,
And you filled it with Grace.

I loved, and was loved, "because of",
And you made me... Love itself.

I was exiled and alone,
And You embraced me...

Until I and the world vanished.

I was drowning in sorrow,
And You immersed that sorrow...

In an Ocean of Bliss,
So that I could not tell the two apart.

It hurt to be alive as "me",
And you made me no longer one alive...

But Life itself.

Looking within, I found my Self,
And then, at my Heart's behest...

Found My Self, again, as You
Chuck Surface.

www.GardenOfTheBeloved.com
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Deep Listening


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

. The body
reaches a peace.

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
from The Glance
Coleman Barks translation
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-deep-listening.html

the below photo from this link:
http://www.techofheart.co/2008/12/what-is-sama-mystical-audition.html
with deeper thoughts/understandings re: Rumi's use of word SAMA