Meditating with mystics is an exploration of our interior space,
Guided gently by the words of inspired mystics from various traditions,
Assisted with brainwave entrainment and immersive soundscapes to take us deep.
This contemplative track utilizes 40 Hz gamma sounds,
Which has been shown in multiple human experiments to improve neuromodulation such that focus,
Cognitive function,
Math and musical performance,
Memory recall and dopamine lifting mood effects can all be significantly enhanced.
It also produces a very still mind.
The most significant results are observed over time,
Which research indicates is between 30 minutes and 1 hour daily.
We seed our contemplation today with 15 minutes of poetics from Rumi,
13th century Persian poet,
Islamic scholar and Sufi mystic.
And then after the reading we will allow those seeds to bear their fruit in 15 minutes of open contemplation.
Become aware of your breath.
Become aware of your breath.
Become absorbed in the sound.
Keep the words that suit your wisdom,
Release the rest and simply be.
Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
You were born with wings.
Why prefer to crawl through life?
Beauty surrounds us,
But usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
The world is a mountain,
In which your words are echoed back to you.
Do not grieve.
Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Now is the time to unite the soul and the world.
Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
Raise your words,
Not your voice.
It is rain that grows flowers,
Not thunder.
Let go of your mind and then be mindful.
Close your ears,
Close your eyes,
Let go of your mind and then be mindful.
Close your ears and listen.
Do not feel lonely.
The entire universe is inside of you.
What you seek is seeking you.
Stop acting so small.
You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
If you are irritated by every rub,
How will your mirror be polished?
When you do things from your soul,
You feel a river moving in you,
A joy.
Don't make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.
Yesterday I was clever,
So I wanted to change the world.
Today I am wise,
So I am changing myself.
Why should I be unhappy?
Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.
Find the sweetness in your own heart,
Then you may find the sweetness in every heart.
Love rests on no foundation.
It is an endless ocean with no beginning or end.
Reason is powerless in the experience of love.
Reason is powerless in the expression of love.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They are in each other all along.
Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love?
The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.
In your light,
I learn how to love.
In your beauty,
How to make poems.
You dance inside my chest where no one sees you.
But sometimes I do,
And that sight becomes this art.
Don't think.
Quit pouring thoughts like kerosene on everything fresh and green,
Burning it to the root.
Be a fool,
Drunk on love,
Soaked in awe till dry reeds are as sweet as sugarcane.
A lion leaps out of his cage.
A man leaps out of his mind.
Bravery is delicious madness,
Not some circumspect cagey thought,
Sly and ungiving.
Why scheme for a morsel?
Curb your insatiable hunger and you won't be seduced by a trickster or reduced to being one.
When greed groans,
I act deaf.
We are born of love.
Love is our mother.
Let your teacher be love itself.
Your task is not to seek for love,
But merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself you have built against it.
Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
Why paint night over nightless day?
Every religion has love,
But love has no religion.
Love is an ocean,
No borders,
No shores.
Drown there and you won't lament it.
The drowned have no regrets.
Run from what's comfortable.
Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.
I have tried prudent planning long enough.
From now on,
I'll be mad.
Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
When I am,
I am not.
When I am not,
I am.
This is a subtle truth.
Whatever you love,
You are.
Body is only an instrument for the spirit.
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes,
Because for those who love with heart and soul,
There is no such thing as separation.
Close your eyes.
Fall in love.
Stay there.
