Rumi On: What Is Fear? Anger? Envy?

Rumi was asked: What is poison? What is fear? What is envy? What is anger? What is hate? His answer is that is it all rooted in attachment, but each has a special antidote. So how do you love unconditionally, tolerate what is beyond your control, seek inspiration and adventure, and know what it is exactly what you need in order to save yourself from the poison of fear, envy, anger, and hate?

Transcript

Hi,

This is Morgan at Spundit.

Yoga and you can listen to this one doing anything.

You can listen to this one driving or cleaning your house or getting ready in the morning.

This is going to be a brief reading from the Turkish poet Rumi.

He was great.

So Rumi was asked,

What is poison?

Anything which is more than our necessity is poison.

It may be power.

It may be smell,

Hunger,

Ego,

Greed,

Laziness,

Love,

Ambition,

Hate or anything.

Rumi was asked,

What is fear?

Non-acceptance of uncertainty.

If we accept that uncertainty,

It becomes adventure.

Rumi was asked,

What is envy?

Non-acceptance of good in others.

If we accept that good,

It becomes inspiration.

Rumi was asked,

What is anger?

Non-acceptance of things which are beyond our control.

If we accept it,

It becomes tolerance.

Rumi was asked,

What is hatred?

Non-acceptance of person as he is.

If we accept person unconditionally,

It becomes love.

That's what Rumi had to say about things.

Poison is anything more than necessity,

But necessity varies from person to person,

From body to body,

From soul to soul.

What is necessary for one isn't always necessary for another.

And that's what's so beautiful about that language is it leaves it so open.

So you get to decide what's necessary for you.

That you have to check in with yourself,

With your soul,

With your intuition,

With your conscience,

To see if what you think is necessary is really what your ego thinks is necessary or what your ambition thinks is necessary.

And you'll know it's a necessity because it helps more than yourself.

So Rumi said the opposite of fear is adventure.

I love that when I'm really scared of something and it happens a lot because I have social anxiety.

So just walking out the door can be really scary.

I turn it around and I ask myself in a really friendly way,

I wonder what's going to happen instead of just being scared of all the terrible things that could happen,

All the awkward encounters,

All the serious stuff,

All the car accidents,

All the unpleasant things that happen in this world.

You can greet even those things with,

Oh,

I wonder what will happen next.

And then it's an adventure.

It's way more fun.

Rumi said that the opposite of envy is the acceptance that others are good.

And to me,

That means that we accept that others are doing the best that they can,

Just like we are doing the best that we can,

Just like you are doing the best that you can.

So if envy is the non-acceptance of good in others,

That's to say that they don't deserve what it is they have that you want.

And that's just not true because we all have what we need.

And you get to decide what you need.

You don't get to decide what someone else gets to have or need.

You can accept that they are good and they are getting exactly what they deserve.

And you can use that as inspiration.

If you see something that you want,

What do you have to do to make that happen for yourself?

Because you can have it too.

There's nothing in this world worth having that only one of us can have.

All the things worth having all of us can have.

To me,

The opposite of anger is tolerance.

Referring to things beyond our control,

Tolerating those things.

I would add to that,

I would suggest that in addition to the tolerance,

To the allowing of things that are beyond your control to be beyond your control,

We have gratitude that they are beyond our control.

Thank you.

I can see that that has nothing to do with me.

And I'm so grateful for that.

And I have compassion that it's somebody else's problem,

That it's somebody else's issue.

Is there something I can do to help?

And that's true tolerance.

It's offering help.

Jeremy said the opposite of hatred is love.

And here he defines love as accepting a person unconditionally.

And of course,

That starts with ourselves.

You have to accept yourself unconditionally before you can truly accept someone else unconditionally.

And that,

My friend,

Is a long journey.

But we're all in it together.

So how do you accept someone unconditionally?

How do you accept someone just as they are without wanting to change anything about them?

But allowing them to change and to grow within their own timeframe,

Within their own tolerance,

Within their own bites of inspiration,

Within their own adventure,

Within their own sense of necessity.

How do you do that?

How do you offer that to yourself?

How do you tolerate yourself and make space?

For your own moments of inspiration,

Your own sense of adventure,

Your own self-knowledge of what is necessary,

How do you love yourself?

There are a lot of ways to do that.

In the yogic tradition,

There are eight ways.

There's a whole path that you walk.

We'll get into that in a different episode.

But it's something to think about as you move through your day.

Are you accepting yourself unconditionally?

Are you constantly forgiving yourself for all those little things that you could have done differently if you'd had the knowledge that you had now?

Are you constantly seeking to be more tolerant,

To be more inspired,

And to be an inspiration,

To have a sense of adventure,

To know that you have what you need,

To give yourself that sense of abundance,

To share with everyone around you?

Move with that energy for the rest of your day.

Namaste.

Reviews

I found what I was looking for with this meditation / talk 🙏

I just noticed at the beginning of your talk, you mentioned that Rumi was a Turkish poet. That is not correct. Rumi was Persian/ Iranian poet and 100% of his poems are in Farsi language. He passed away in Turkey and was buried there. Turkish people don’t speak Farsi. Thanks

Rumi knows and his mystic powerful insights are life-changers. I enjoyed your beautiful interpretations. Thank you so much 🙇 ✨🌅

Namaste🙏🏻

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You have a happy and pleasant voice
The explanation of Rumi is very interesting.
Thank you for sharing this with all of us

🙏Namasté🙏

Thank you for your inspiring talk. I have several of Rumis books. 💖

Oh wow! This was sent to me from a friend and I really enjoyed it. Exactly what I needed to hear. Thank you 🙏

Amazing reflection on the teachings of Rumi—Kindly presented, loving inquiries for each of us to consider. A great way to start the day.

Lovely, thought provoking talk. Thank you. Sending love, light and gratitude 🙏❤️

I loved each one of your words. Thank you for sharing

This is wonderful and deeply thought provoking. Thank you

Beautiful talk with simple yet powerful insights. Loved how you expanded on what Rumi said. Namaste 🙏🏼

I love Rumi . Your take on his writing and wisdom is wonderful!!
Bookmarked and shared !
Namaste 🙏 💚

Thank you, I enjoyed so much and made me think about those concepts

Spot on Rumi, so well summarized and applied to modern life. Will be sharing!

Really loved this Morgan,
Love is accepting someone unconditionally.
Going to listen to this recording as a regular part of my practice.
Deep bows
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Hi Morgan, thanks for another great meditation. I like how you reading the selection first from Rumi and then discussed it. The big takeaway for me was to be thankful for what I have not the things I want. Hi Spike!

Loved this talk! Thank you!

Nice talk. Bell at the end makes it less useful if going to sleep

Such good, substantial content. Thank you!

“...acceptance is the answer to all my problems today.” Thank you for clarifying the reason I must travel a spiritual path. Daily.