Ruminating with Rumi
Do you understand the language of birds? Or is it a confusion of twittering to your ears? What about your neighbor’s voice? Do you hear? Or are you tied up in your own knots of confusion? Listen to what is said. Do not be deaf. Follow twia. Twia gives you ears that hear.
Listen to the birds with ears that hear. They see from on high and can bring you the good news. Trust in them. Their voice is in your neighbor. You cannot hear your neighbor until you let go of fear. Fear separates. It leaves you deaf. Lies build up with nowhere to go. Relieve yourself in the wasteland. Leave your load in the desert. Bury your lies deep so that your ears are free to hear the voice of your true nature. That voice is the sound of birds twittering. Now there is no confusion between you and your neighbor. You live as one without separation. There is joy in knowing. Dissolve into the union of emptiness. What you seek will find you in the darkness of the room within.
To turn within is to shed desire and expectation. You are no longer bound to the body by pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. They are there to be witnessed like ponies in a field without being ridden. Do not dwell on the body and its ways. It is an act of separation in consciousness that is not real. The body is a transitory illusion that comes and goes without meaning. You give it purpose as an experience of existence.
Separation is perception of this and that. It exists without being real. Your true nature is hidden by your perceptions of separation. What is real cannot be seen by the eyes of the body. What does it mean to have eyes that see? It means to have the vision of twia to see past this and that to the whole of the all. To live in the whole of the all is to see your neighbor as yourself.
To live in the whole of the all is to be in the moment. In the silence of the moment there is no other. There is no me, no you—no this and that. In the moment, twia carries you off into the garden where your roots are planted firmly in the ground of goodness and the birds twitter overhead. You are the one. You are growing in abundance. You are drawn by the light into the heavens. There you disappear into consciousness.