The 'turn,' the moving meditation done by Mevlevi dervishes, began with Rumi, the great Sufi poet. The story goes that he was walking in the gold-smithing section of Konya, when he heard a beautiful music in their hammering. He began turning in harmony with it, an ecstatic dance of surrender and yet with great centered discipline. He arrived at a place where ego dissolves and a resonance with universal soul comes in.
Dervish literally means 'doorway.' When what is communicated moves from presence to presence, darshan occurs, with language inside the seeing. When the gravitational pull gets even stronger, the two become one turning that is molecular and galactic and a spiritual remembering of the presence at the center of the universe.
Turning is an image of how the dervish becomes an empty place where human and divine can meet. To approach the whole the part must become mad, by conventional standards at least. These ecstatic, holy people, calledmatzubs in the Sufi tradition, redefine this sort of madness as true health.
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