{"id":17412,"date":"2017-03-25T08:32:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T15:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/?p=17412"},"modified":"2017-03-25T10:37:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T17:37:20","slug":"spring-giddiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/beautiful-people\/spring-giddiness\/","title":{"rendered":"“Ohanami” & “Spring Giddiness”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Spring Giddiness
\nRumi<\/p>\n

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
\nand frightened. Don\u2019t open the door to the study
\nand begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
\nLet the beauty we love be what we do.
\nThere are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.<\/p>\n

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
\nDon\u2019t go back to sleep.
\nYou must ask for what you really want.
\nDon\u2019t go back to sleep.
\nPeople are going back and forth across the doorsill
\nwhere the two worlds touch.
\nThe door is round and open.
\nDon\u2019t go back to sleep.
\nI would love to kiss you.
\nThe price of kissing is your life.
\nNow my loving is running toward my life shouting,
\nWhat a bargain, let\u2019s buy it.<\/p>\n

Daylight, full of small dancing particles
\nand the one great turning, our souls
\nare dancing with you, without feet, they dance.
\nCan you see them when I whisper in your ear?
\nAll day and night, music,
\na quiet, bright
\nreedsong. If it
\nfades, we fade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nSpring has arrived where we find abundance … of berries to get us giddy with delight?<\/p>\n

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And here’s an excerpt from a longer poem of Rumi’s that sinks in just as rain sinks into this earth to bring about all this abundance all around us, this spring:<\/p>\n

… We began
\nas a mineral. We emerged into plant life
\nand into animal state, and then into being human,
\nand always we have forgotten our former states,
\nexcept in early spring when we slightly recall
\nbeing green again.
\n…
\nHumankind is being led along an evolving course,
\nthrough this migration of intelligences,
\nand though we seem to be sleeping,
\nthere is an inner wakefulness
\nthat directs the dream,<\/p>\n

and that will eventually startle us back
\nto the truth of who we are.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2015 Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nFood photos courtesy of “Sakura” at International House, Tokyo:) Most beautiful Japanese garden to behold … sigh, sigh, sigh…Ohanami season is something to behold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spring Giddiness Rumi Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don\u2019t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. The breeze at dawn has secrets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17412"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17419,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17412\/revisions\/17419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}