What is deep listening?
Sama is a greeting from the secret ones
inside the heart, a letter.
The branches of your intelligence
grow new leaves in the wind of this listening.
The body reaches a peace.
Rooster sound comes,
reminding you of your love for dawn.
The reed flute and the singer’s lips;
the knack of how spirit breathes into us
becomes as simple and ordinary
as eating and drinking.
The dead rise with the pleasure of listening.
If someone cannot hear a trumpet melody,
Sprinkle dirt on him and declare him dead!
~ Rumi
