Welcome friends,
I'm Oyné and I'm looking forward to meditating with you today.
We are going to be flowing together through time and space,
Sitting with different poets from different parts of the world,
Different periods,
And allowing the energy of their and the stillness between the spaces to blossom within our hearts.
Poetry has been used as a healing salve and a source of wisdom,
Foreign from the heart throughout the ages.
The poet who will be co-hosting with us today,
Hafez,
Is a 14th century Persian mystic poet widely beloved around the world,
And he will be ending our session today with a special piece.
The other poets we visit around the world will be sharing messages of wisdom with a common theme in their messages about healing and how we may return to center.
If we can learn to neither push nor pull sorrow and joy,
If we can sit in the stillness of the center,
We will find a deep peace and the truth that we are not alone on this healing journey.
Each time we visit with a poet and allow the words to percolate in our heart,
We'll follow that with a period of breathing meditation,
And finally a chime to bring us back for the next leg of our adventure.
The accompanying music soundtrack you're listening to contains theta wave binaural beats,
Promoting brainwaves that support meditation,
Deep relaxation,
And creativity.
Listening with headphones is recommended for you to get the most benefit from the binaural beats.
Feel free to pause the audio now if you would like to go get headphones.
And when you're ready,
Let's settle in and enjoy.
Take any meditative posture you feel called to,
Whether seated or reclining,
Whether eyes closed or open,
And simply take a few deep settling breaths as we prepare to relax into this healing space.
Our first trip across space and time will be with Rilke,
20th century Austrian poet.
I invite you to sit in stillness and allow the seeds of Rilke's words to be planted in your heart.
You,
Sent out beyond your recall,
Go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.
Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can move in.
Let everything happen to you.
Beauty and terror.
Just keep going.
No feeling is final.
Don't let yourself lose me.
Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.
Give me your hand.
And as we accept the guiding hand of our deepest self,
Let us relax in this country they call life,
Holding onto or pushing away nothing that happens within this human experience.
And like our breathing,
What comes in flows back out.
Don't need to control or hold the breath.
Simply noticing each rise and each fall.
Now continue breathing as the seeds of healing blossom in your heart.
And now let us sit with another poet,
Jibran,
20th century Lebanese American,
And allow the words to percolate within our heart.
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
And how else can it be?
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being,
The more joy you can contain.
At least we allow space for the breath to empty and refill from the body.
We can ease into simply observing each breath,
Not seeking to hold or control,
Just noting the ins and the outs.
Now let us rewind time,
Friends,
Around 2,
500 years to sit with the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu.
Let us allow his words,
Which have cradled the world with wisdom for millennia,
To be planted in the fertile garden of our hearts.
Empty yourself of everything.
Let the mind rest at peace.
The 10,
000 things rise and fall while the self watches their return.
They grow and flourish and then return to the source.
Returning to the source is stillness,
Which is the way of nature.
Let us now return to the rise and fall of the breath,
Like ocean waves gently crashing and pulling back away from the shore.
We need simply notice as we remain in the center,
The silent observer,
Sitting with the peace of stillness in our hearts.
Continue breathing and observing gently as you allow the waves of music to wrap you in this healing space.
Friends,
I've enjoyed meditating with you,
And I hope that you have found some serenity in this healing space of the center.
I look forward to seeing your comments to me and to each other.
And as we close this space together with our co-host Hafiz,
We'll be ending on a little bit of a different note,
And that is how can we be the healing we want to see in the world.
I invite you one final time to relax your body,
Your eyes,
Your mind and heart in this space as we allow Hafiz's words to send us into our day.
Admit something.
Everyone you see,
You say to them,
Love me.
Of course you do not do this out loud,
Otherwise someone would call the cops.
Still though,
Think about this,
This great pull in us to connect.
Why not become the one who lives with a full moon in each eye that is always saying with that sweet moon language what every other eye in this world is dying to hear.
Thank you for spending this time together.
I look forward to seeing you in the next meditation.
