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Whirling is a doorway
How do you mention a secret?
Very carefully.
There is a secret inside whirling.
The Whirling Dervish tries to get out of the way to reveal it.
"Dervish" literally means "doorway" and is thought
to be an entrance from the material world to the spiritual world.
Within the Sufi Mevlevi Dervish Order, founded in the 13th century by
the Persian mystic philosopher and poet Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi, lies
the origin of the Mevlevi Sema, or dance of the Whirling Dervishes.
The whirling is a prayer during which the
dervish’s body can become open to receive the divine invisible
energy which pervades the universe. For this to occur, the dervish
attempts to be empty of ego or sense of self. Turning with one
symbolic palm extended upward to receive and one extended downward to
give, the dervish does not attempt to keep this energy - the intention
is to be a vessel through which the energy can pass onto others. But it
is a struggle.
Everything in the universe revolves - the
planets around their Sun, our Earth on its axis, the protons, electrons
and neutrons in our body. The Whirling Dervish aligns him or herself
with that cosmic movement so that when the dervish turns, the invisible
world opens.
More about Mevlana...
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Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi
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Whirling yields benefits on many levels
Access to deep states of meditation
Sensitivity to others
Intense work-out at advanced levels
States of ecstacy
Stamina
Patience
Balance |
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