Name: Out Of The Mouth of A Thousand Birds
Duration: P00H03M14S
Description: Poem by Hafiz, from "The Subject Tonight is Love" by Daniel Ladinsky

Out Of The Mouth of A Thousand Birds

from RUMI & HAFIZ: The Mountains Hint at Our Beauty by Lama Foundation

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Poem by Hafiz, from "The Subject Tonight is Love" by Daniel Ladinsky

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Listen—listen more carefully to what is around
you, right now.
In my world there are the bells from the clanks
of the morning milk drums,
and a wagon wheel outside my window just hit
a bump which turned into an ecstatic chorus
of the Beloved’s Name.
There is the Prayer Call, rising up like the sun
out of the mouths of a thousand birds.
There is an astonishing vastness of movement
and life emanating sound and light from my
folded hands, and my even quieter simple being
and heart.
My dear, is it true that your mind is sometimes
like a battering ram, running all through the city
shouting so madly inside and out about the ten
thousand things that do not matter?
Hafiz, too, for many years beat his head in
youth and thought himself at a great distance,
far from and armistice with God.
But that is why this scarred old pilgrim has
become such a sweet rare vintage who weeps
and sings for you.
That is why Hafiz will forever in his verse play
his cymbal and call to you.
O listen—listen more carefully to what is inside
of you right now.
In my world all that remains is the wondrous
call to dance and prayer rising up like a thousand
suns ... out of the mouth of a single bird.

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from RUMI & HAFIZ: The Mountains Hint at Our Beauty, released May 21, 2018
Read by W. Allaudin Mathieu

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Lama Foundation Taos, New Mexico

Lama Foundation is a spiritual community, educational facility, and retreat center. The birth place of "Be Here Now," by Ram Dass, and final resting place to Murshid Samuel Lewis, creator of the Dances of Universal Peace. Lama lies north of the town of Taos, New Mexico.

Designed to embrace all spiritual traditions, thousands of pilgrims from nearly all religious heritages have called Lama home. ... more