Ruminating with Rumi
Did I come into this world as ignorant as I am now? It seems I have grown less wise than I was at birth. Maybe Jesus meant for me to become again like a child when he said that we need to humble ourselves to enter the kingdom. To be humble is to remember our true nature. To remember our true nature is to enter the room within. In the room within we return to wisdom and joy.
Experiencing existence is a mystical journey of forgetting, then remembering. You have wandered from the way of the path into the ways of the world. You are clipped and shorn. You are fed spun sugar and live in ignorance and fear. Twia awaits your return. In twia you remember that you are wisdom and joy. This is the nourishment of the ground of goodness. Stuff your troubles into the ground of goodness. It will grow you to perfection and return you to your true nature.
You are not special. You are not separate from the whole of the all. Hear the drumbeat from within. Have ears to hear its call. It gathers all who listen. Enter the room within and sit in the light of the fire burning in you. By the light you will see the unity of all who have gathered. The drummer is quiet now. Sit quietly in the silence. Die to the world. Bask in the glow that is twia. Twia has called you back to wisdom and joy.
Turn now from the world to the room within. The room within is your true nature. The world is not your home. You are a visitor in a dream of separation. The world will end. You are eternal. You are a child in the world, fascinated by this and that. It all seems so gratifying. You seek fulfillment in its ways. But they do not satisfy. This and that are spun sugar, tasty and fun at first, until you feel ill. Your true nourishment comes from within. Do you not hear the drumbeat calling. It is your own voice. All that you seek, you are now.