The wisdom of Rumi: An OrchAstrology Meditation

Take a deep breath,

Breathe in and breathe out.

For a second time,

Breathe in,

Allow the body to rise,

The muscles to expand slightly.

And as you breathe out,

You allow the muscles to decompress and send a natural wave of relaxation throughout your whole body.

For a third time,

Breathe in deeply,

Expand,

Breathe out and send a wave of relaxation throughout.

We use the breathing to calm the mind down,

But we want to go a little bit deeper.

So now you can put your full attention inside the right index finger.

As your mind goes into the right index finger,

You may find that it becomes thicker,

As if that finger was slightly bigger than all the others.

You may feel a bit of warmth and a slight sensation of tingling.

This shows how much the mind can influence the body.

Now extend that feeling throughout your right hand and bring it into the left hand as well.

Try to find the sensations of tingling,

Fullness and warmth developing there.

These are very natural sensations,

But they're usually automatic.

The tingling comes from the pain receptors,

The fullness from the pressure sensors and the warmth from the temperature sensors.

They are governed by a deeper part of our mind.

What we're doing is aiming to tune in,

Find the awareness of this mind and eventually learn how to use it consciously.

Now you can go up through your wrists,

Your lower arms,

Elbows,

Upper arms and shoulders.

Aim to find a tingling,

Fullness and warmth throughout.

Release all the muscles and find the deep body sensations.

Now place your mind inside your feet and aim to find the sensation of tingling,

Fullness and warmth inside both your feet.

It is a little bit harder because the feet are farther away from your brain.

Release all the muscles there and find the deep body sensations.

Now go up through the ankles,

Lower legs,

Knees,

Thighs and base center.

Feel the feeling of the limbs feeling as if they were asleep.

Now you can aim to place the sensation of tingling all the way to the background because this sensation can be found with the surface mind.

But the sensations of fullness and warmth are only available to the deeper mind.

So now make the sensations of fullness and warmth more prominent into the foreground.

The feeling is as if you were immersed in a thick warm liquid or a thick warm cloud.

Bring that feeling around the head,

Down the neck,

Shoulders,

Chest,

Shoulder blades,

Back,

Lower back,

Abdomen area.

Then fall deeply inside the solar plexus and enjoy the feeling of your whole body as if it was asleep while your mind is sharp and awake.

If there is any tension,

Release it and find that sensation of fullness and warmth immersed into this thick warm cloud or liquid.

This is the best state for us to start visualizing,

Is the closest you can be to dream without being asleep.

So now,

Go inside the main hall of your imagination ship.

If you don't know what that is,

Don't worry.

It's just a vessel that we use to travel from the outer world and into the inner world.

This hall is quite particular.

It's like being in an Escher painting.

There are staircases going up and down at the same time.

And gravity is only relative to where you are now.

You pick a staircase,

Go up or down or through,

Arrive at a hall.

Here you see a door.

You open the door,

You enter and you discover your very own time machine.

On a pedestal there is a spherical device.

You take it,

You punch in the date,

1250,

Location,

Khorasan,

Which is the modern Afghanistan.

And you type in the name Rumi.

You hear a buzzing sound.

And you're back in time.

You're in a beautiful oasis.

It's warm but not too warm.

There is a circle of sages,

Wise women and wise men.

And in the middle of the circle is the great man himself,

Rumi.

He is about to recite some of his beautiful poems.

They are filled with deep messages.

So now,

You can enjoy the Orchestralogy Piano Piece composed based on the astrological chart of Rumi together with some of his sayings.

These pains you feel are messengers.

Listen to them.

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

Wherever you are and whatever you do,

Be in love.

The moment you accept what troubles you've been given,

The door will open.

Your heart knows the way.

Run in that direction.

Stop acting so small.

You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

Love is the bridge between you and everything.

Keep silent because the world of silence is a vast fullness.

When will you begin that long journey into yourself?

You are not a drop in the ocean.

You are the entire ocean in a drop.

I want to sing like the birds sing,

Not worrying about who hears or what they think.

What hurts you blesses you.

Darkness is your candle.

Whenever they rebuild an old building,

They must first of all destroy the old one.

As you start to walk on the way,

The way appears.

Let silence be the art you practice.

Silence gives answers.

Water lifts the corners of your mouth.

Trust that.

My soul is from elsewhere.

I'm sure of that.

I intend to end up there.

Yesterday I was clever,

So I wanted to change the world.

Today I am wise,

So I am changing myself.

There is a candle in your heart,

Ready to be kindled.

There is a void in your soul,

Ready to be filled.

You feel it,

Don't you?

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

I have been a seeker,

And I still am,

But I stopped asking the books and the stars.

I started listening to the teaching of my soul.

It's your road,

And yours alone.

Others may walk it with you,

But no one can walk it for you.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

In the blackest of your moments,

Wait with no fear.

By God,

When you see your beauty,

You will be the idol of yourself.

I should be suspicious of what I want.

Maybe you are searching among the branches for what only appears in the roots.

What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.

The whole universe is contained within a single human being,

You.

The spirit is so near that you can't see it,

But reach for it.

Don't be a jar full of water,

Whose rim is always dry.

Don't be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the holes that is beneath him.

Take someone who doesn't keep score,

Who's not looking to be richer or afraid of losing,

Who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality.

He is free.

When the world pushes you to your knees,

You're in the perfect position to pray.

Be full of sorrow,

That you may become hill of joy.

Weep that you may break into laughter.

There is a voice that doesn't use words.

Listen.

In silence there is eloquence.

Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.

I am not this hair.

I am not this skin.

I am the soul that lives within.

If I love myself,

I love you.

If I love you,

I love myself.

Close your eyes.

Fall in love.

Stay there.

What you seek is seeking you.

Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.

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.

Your task is not to seek for love,

But merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Cleverness is mere opinion.

Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.

Raise your words,

Not voice.

It is rain that grows flowers,

Not thunder.

Caught by our own thoughts,

We worry about everything.

Let your teacher be love itself.

Laugh as much as you breathe.

Love as long as you live.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Be drunk with love.

For love is all that exists.

The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand.

When you do things from your soul,

You feel a river moving in you,

A joy.

Very little grows on jagged rock.

Be ground.

Be crumbled.

The wild flowers will come up where you are.

The lion is most handsome when looking for food.

If all you can do is crawl,

Start crawling.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Sit,

Be still,

And listen.

Patience is the key to joy.

If light is in your heart,

You will find your way home.

Or set your life on fire.

Seek those who fan your flames.

Be empty of worrying.

Think of who created thought.

Become the sky.

Take an axe to the prison wall.

Escape.

Let yourself become living poetry.

Be soulful.

Be kind.

Be in love.

Be an empty page,

Untouched by words.

I know you're tired,

But come,

This is the way.

Dance until you shatter yourself.

The wealth within you,

Your essence,

Is your kingdom.

To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.

Respond to every call that excites your spirit.

Wherever you stand,

Be the soul of that place.

You were born with wings.

Why prefer to crawl through life?

Half-hardness doesn't reach into majesty.

Look at the moon in the sky,

Not the one in the lake.

What is planted in each person's soul will sprout.

The source of now is here.

Grace comes to forgive,

And then forgive again.

Patience with small details makes perfect a large work like the universe.

Anyone who genuinely and consistently,

With both hands,

Looks for something will find it.

In each moment the fire rages,

It will burn away a hundred veils and carry you a thousand steps towards your goal.

The garden of the world has no limit except in your mind.

When I am silent,

I fall into the place where everything is music.

There is a life force within your soul.

Seek that life.

There is a gem in the mountain of your body.

Seek that mine.

Oh traveler,

If you are in search of that,

Don't look outside.

Look inside yourself and seek that.

With every breath I plant the seeds of devotion.

I am a farmer of the heart.

Everyone has been made for some particular work,

And the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

Achieve some perfection yourself so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

Don't be satisfied with stories,

How things have gone with others.

Unfold your own myth.

Whether one moves slowly or with speed,

The one who is a seeker will be a finder.

Be a lamp,

Or a lifeboat,

Or a lantern.

Help someone's soul heal.

Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.

Don't start a huge,

Foolish project like Noah.

It makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot.

Seek the path that demands your whole being.

Whoever has hearts doors wide open could see the sun itself in every atom.

The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.

You're not one,

You are a thousand.

Just light your lantern.

Work,

Keep digging your well.

Water is there somewhere.

So now it's time to say goodbye to Rumi and all the sages.

So you take your spherical device,

Punch in the date of the now and the place of the here.

You press a button,

You hear a whizzing sound,

And you're now back to the future.

I am now going to count to ten.

When I get to eight,

You can open your eyes.

And when I get to ten,

You'll be back here in the now,

Feeling inspired by the words of the great sage.

One,

Two,

Three,

You're coming back.

Four,

Five,

Six,

You feel your hands,

Shoulders,

Feet,

Legs.

You can start moving around.

Seven,

Eight,

You open your eyes.

Nine,

Ten,

You're back here in the now.