Rumi ♡ - Deep listening

What is deep listening?

Sema is a greeting from the secret ones

inside the heart, a letter.

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The branches of your intelligence

grow new leaves in the wind of this listening.

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The body reaches a peace.

Rooster sound comes,

reminding you of your love for dawn.

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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.

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The dead rise with the pleasure of this listening.

If some cannot hear a trumpet melody,

sprinkle dirt on his head and declare him dead.

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Listen and feel the beauty of your separation,

the unsayable absence.

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There is a moon inside every human being.

Learn to be companions with it.

Give more of your life to this listening.

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As brightness is to time, so you are 

to the one who talks to the deep ear in your chest.

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I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears

when that one steps near and begins to speak.

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~ Rumi

from The Big Red Book

translations by Coleman Barks