2 posts tagged “spiritual”
Weeping for me and mourning me in sorrow
Do not believe that this corpse you see is myself
In the name of God, I tell you, it is not I,
I am a spirit, and this is naught but flesh
It was my abode and my garment for a time.
I am a treasure, by a talisman kept hid,
Fashioned of dust, which served me as a shrine,
I am a pearl, which has left it's shell deserted,
I am a bird, and this body was my cage
Whence I have now floron forth and it is left as a token
Praise to God, who hath now set me free
And prepared for me my place in the highest of the heaven,
Until today I was dead, though alive in your midst.
Now I live in truth, with the grave - clothes discarded.
Today I hold converse with the saints above,
With no veil between, I see God face to face.
I look upon "Loh-i-Mahfuz" and there in I read
Whatever was and is and all that is to be.
Let my house fall in ruins, lay my cage in the ground,
Cast away the talisman, it is a token, no more
Lay aside my cloak, it was but my outer garment.
Place them all in the grave, let them be forgotten,
I have passed on my way and you are left behind
Your place of abode was no deweling place for me.
Think not that death is death, nay, it is life,
A life that surpasses all we could dream of here,
While in this world, here we are granted sleep,
Death is but sleep, sleep that shall be prolonged
Be not frightened when death draweth night,
It is but the departure for this blessed home
Think of the mercy and love of your Lord,
Give thanks for His Grace and come without fear.
What I am now, even so shall you be
For I know that you are even as I am
The souls of all men come forth from God
The bodies of all are compounded alike
Good and evil, alike it was ours
I give you now a message of good cheer
May God's peace and joy for evermore be yours."
- Imam Ghazali's Last
Deciding to play what music at night is a tricky thing. Play the wrong track and you’ll spend all night thinking about something, play the right one and you’ll be in peace for the whole night.
I’m serious, man. I tried it a few times; there’s one night
I play all the mellow Gary Moore kind of music. You know the type of blues
music you listen to on a really dry and blunt evening. Didn’t work out; I felt
uncomfortable and uneasy all night. Maybe because in my head there’s this
visual image of an extremely draggy sunset and I don’t really like that. But if I'm listening to that kind of blues music in a rainy afternoon, I'll feel damn good. I
guess our mind is really some piece of work. How it connects something that is
felt externally to our thoughts mentally and in return we react in accordance
to it is really interesting.
All I’m saying is that the way we relate thoughts, feelings and experiences with music can get pretty interesting at times. Think about it. Or rather… the next time you listen to a particular music; feel it. You’ll be surprised by what kind of relations and pictures coming out in your head. Music does heal people but for how long you will remained healed is still dependent on a bigger force but that’s a different thing.
With that being said, I wish I could help people feel good through listening to music. Just talk to me for a bit, I’ll find out more about you, what kind of music you like, etc and I’ll give you a mix of music. Listen to it during the right time while doing the right thing and I’m sure you’ll feel good.
So who wants to be my first patient? ;p
