Lição 1
The Guiding Spirit Of All Souls
There are 10 principal Sufi thoughts which comprise all the important subjects with which the inner life is concerned. One of them states…
There is One Master, the Guiding Spirit of all Souls, Who constantly leads followers towards the light.
Rumi was also known as Mawlānā, means our master or teacher.
In session 1 we open the door to exploring the connection to consciousness through the poetry and written word of Rumi, the 13th Century Sufi teacher, poet and religious scholar.
His words will encourage you to unfold your own myth. To help you shift your perspective on life and rebuild its foundations around you once more.
Lição 2
The Love In Life
Rumi wrote ‘Love is the reality and the poem is the drum’.
Love is the reality and the reality is love. And love is everywhere when you breakdown the barriers and go seek it. The poem is the drum. The poem is the beauty you live life by. You set the rhythm and life will follow you.
Rumi evokes clearly that the greatest stimulation is life itself, and every adventure great or small that surfaces from that.
Lição 3
A Community Of The Spirit
Rumi wrote,
‘There is a community of the spirit.
Join it, and feel the delight
Of walking in the noisy street
And being the noise.’
Walk in the noisy street and ‘be’ the noise. Dissolve into your surroundings. Gift yourself to the experience however simple, however complex. Give over to it all.
Surrender to what life places at your feet.
Lição 4
The Mystical Conversation
There is One Truth, the true knowledge of our being, within and without, which is the essence of all wisdom.
When you surrender to the divine, the allness, the universal cycles of life, that is when true growth happens and beautiful things permeate.
Lição 5
The Artistry Of Life
In this session we delve into how you can be an artist of life itself.
Live in your obligation, your responsibility, of course, but practice your art, the artistry of life. The freedom of crafting delight.
Treat life as a beautiful play, a sonnet, a sculpture, playing out before our eyes.
Lição 6
Fear Is Part Of The Perfection
Fear is part of the perfection, because without balance, there is nothing that gets even close the perfected.vIf the darkness, the fear and the lack is in your heart, that is what life will express to you.
Fear only works as a trap. Freedom is everything else. Fear is a thought not an instinct. Fear is what might happen. Freedom is everything else.
Lição 7
Darkness Is Your Candle
Rumi talks often about blessings in disguise. You have the power within you to turn every situation, occurrence, event to sweetness. It’s all a blessing, you just need to see it as so.
Suffering brings great learning with it. The wound often comes as an excuse for the healing to begin. The darkness is your candle. For without it, you don’t become aware that healing, evolution, movement is required.
Lição 8
This One Object Of Praise
Rumi takes us on a quest in life. He guides us through this life journey, strictly.
He brings us to the law of noticing. Noticing what’s around you, savouring each of life’s favours. He reminds us to open the pantry, sit at life’s table, and feast on the treasures that are there. Not the treasures that might be in the future if we are lucky. But to feast on what’s here and now, in front of you.
Lição 9
Become The Sky
Escape. De-hypnotized yourself. And bring those around you along for the ride.
This is the life purpose of every soul. Not to make money or ‘be’ a success. It is to stop frantically running from the silence.
Become the sky, dissolve into the abyss of beauty that life hands you. Walk out into the open and stand in amazement, like someone suddenly born into colour.
Lição 10
In Disciplined Silence It Opens
Siddharta Gautama Buddha realised that there will always be suffering, this is called dukkha in buddhism. Life has and will always have suffering as a part of it, no matter what you do, say or where you go.
Therefore there is no easy path, no safe path. Suffering stands like signposts along any path you care to or not to take. So why not choose a way of being that is worth suffering for. Inspire yourself. That’s what Rumi did everyday.