Do you ever have a kind of moments when a poem, a tune, or a chunk or writing simply pierces your coronary heart and hits you sq.?
Just lately I used to be taking a meditation coaching and somebody shared a outstanding poem. In some way, it appeared to encapsulate our whole retreat.
Sure, it’s about mindfulness, and about being sort to ourselves. But it surely’s about a lot greater than that.
It’s actually about that elusive objective of a life well-lived, which Socrates put in such a pithy and timeless means.
He mentioned: “Know Thyself!”
Or the marginally longer model, “To know thyself is the start of knowledge.”
Actually, I like this poem a lot that I had it framed. Now it sits in my meditation observe room in a wonderful massive purple body.
I did this as a result of I needed to remind myself WHY I’m sitting all the way down to meditate every morning.
The identify of the poem is The Visitor Home by Rumi. Right here it’s.
The Visitor Home
This being human is a visitor home.
Each morning a brand new arrival.
A pleasure, a despair, a meanness,
some momentary consciousness comes
as an surprising customer.
Welcome and entertain all of them!
Even when they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your home
empty of its furnishings,
nonetheless, deal with every visitor honorably.
He could also be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The darkish thought, the disgrace, the malice,
meet them on the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be pleased about whoever comes,
as a result of every has been despatched
as a information from past.-by Rumi
Are you able to relate?
And it’s true. Mindfulness is about welcoming all of it. The great, the fantastic, the dangerous, the abysmal, and each shade between. Embracing all of ourselves isn’t any small problem.
However satirically, that’s the place resilience, readability, and equanimity come from. Deliberately being with all of it.
Greater than another meditation observe I’ve performed, mindfulness meditation has helped me dwell the teachings of The Visitor Home.
To be proper right here, curious, and welcoming the entire messy enterprise of me.
All of it.
If you happen to can relate, let me know what you consider the poem. Or simply pop a excessive 5/fist bump/thumbs up within the feedback as a result of…Rumi.
Oh, and right here’s an image of that framed model of The Visitor Home sitting in my meditation room.
