So I come up with another Bedouin's set that is not available on YouTube again. It's such a nice throwback listening to Bedouin in their 2010s-era music.
At the second last track of this set, which is one of my favorites: "Hologram", they put a piece of Rumi poem in english translation (I know because I read Rumi a lot!). Here is the full part of that beautiful piece (Coleman Barks' english translation):
Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu,
Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion
or cultural system. I am not from the East
or the West, not out of the ocean or up
from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not
composed of elements at all. I do not exist,
am not an entity in this world or the next,
did not descend from Adam and Eve or any
origin story. My place is placeless, a trace
of the traceless. Neither body or soul.
I belong to the beloved, have seen the two
worlds as one and that one call to and know,
first, last, outer, inner, only that
breath breathing human being.
There is a way between voice and presence
where information flows.
In disciplined silence it opens.
With wandering talk it closes.
Fun fact, Hologram is actually the first track that got me into Bedouin. This is one of the comments I found online best describing this track:
This masterpiece speaks from the depths of the universe itself. Cosmic symmetry, the playful progressive pulsation of organic life as it appears and takes over our pale blue dot. The quantum entanglement of order and chaos, love and quiet desperation kneaded into a tapestry of psychedelic, stereoscopic dough. An experience for the auditory sense pathway, this track goes to the heart of existence itself. This cut is a magnificent projection that redefines subjectivity itself because few who really listen to this ecstasy inducing track will ever see life in the same way again. Kudos to the wandering astral traveling bedouins who blessed us so abundantly with this gift.