This is love: to fly to heaven, every moment to rend a hundred veils;
At first instance, to break away from breath -- first step, to renounce feet;
To disregard this world, to see only that which you yourself have seen
To see only that which you yourself have seen" -- I said,
"Heart, congratulations on entering the circle of lovers,
"On gazing beyond the range of the eye, on running into the alley of the breasts."
Whence came this breath, O heart? Whence came this throbbing, O heart?
Bird, speak the tongue of birds: I can heed your cipher!
The heart said, "I was in the factory whilst the home of water and clay was abaking.
"I was flying from the workshop whilst the workshop was being created.
"When I could no more resist, they dragged me; how shall I
tell the manner of that dragging?"
Here ...
THE WORD SEMA comes from a root meaning to listen, suggesting an occasion when music is used to uplift the soul. The form that sema and whirling took in Rumi's day was probably informal and ecstatic, consisting of long nights of zhikr, music and poetry. After the master's death and under the guidance of his dutiful son, Sultan Veled, the sema took on a more ceremonial form, as a kind of embodied cosmology.
The sema that we witness today has existed more or less unchanged for at least several centuries, and probably goes back to the time of Sultan Veled. It is a ceremony of worship, a meditation in movement, in which the human being becomes pure axis, integrating all levels of being within himself, including the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels. To perform the sema is to be centered on the timeless and spaceless, and to experience the meaning of these words from the Holy Qur'an: "Wherever you turn is the face of God." It is to be unified with others who are compelled by the same spiritual longing. It is to be emptied of all distracting thoughts and to be filled with the presence of god. It is itself a journey taken in a direction opposite to that of temporal time, a journey of return to the Source, through our innermost center, where we are closest to the Divine.
It would be worthwhile to try to describe what occurs within individuals as they enact this ceremony year after year as part of their spiritual training, for the ceremony itself teaches its secrets over time and no two ceremonies are experience in the same way. The individual semazen, or dervish, must be able to expand his awareness to include several dimensions at once: He or she must focus on his or her own physical axis, which in this case is the left leg and foot, revolving three hundred and sixty degrees with each step, inwardly pronouncing the name of God, keeping an awareness of exactly where he is in space and the narrow margins of error in this tight choreography, feeling a connection through the shaikh of the ceremony to the whole lineage and also the founder of the order, Mevlâna, and most of all turning with a deep love of god. The sheer impossibility of accomplishing these tasks through one's own will can push one toward another possibility: that of letting a deeper will take over. In this way, the sema becomes a lesson in surrender.
The Mevlevi tradition has always been a way of both aesthetic refinement and inner development. It includes not only the writings of Mevlâna Jalâluddîn Rumi, arguably as great a literary opus as exists on earth, but seven centuries of other Mevlevi poets and scholars as well. In addition there is the vast tradition of Turkish classical music with its subtlety of melody and modes which generations of Mevlevi composers made possible. And finally there is the whole Mevlevi way of life: progressive in spirit and spiritual to its core. We give thanks to the One Creator and Bestower of Form for this heritage.
There ...
The springtime of Lovers has come,
that this dust bowl may become a garden;
the proclamation of heaven has come,
that the bird of the soul may rise in flight.
The sea becomes full of pearls,
the salt marsh becomes sweet as kauthar,
the stone becomes a ruby from the mine,
the body becomes wholly soul.
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