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Recipe to make the world blind
2008-03-03 06:54:00
An Eye For An Eye Will Make The Whole World Blind . - Gandhi... Whoever destroys one life is considered as if he had destroyed the entire world, and whoever saves one life is considered as if he had saved the entire world.. Jewish text Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5 .... God did prescribe to the Children of Israel that whosoever slays a soul, unless it be for murder or for corruption in the land, it is as though he killed all men; and whoever saveth the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the all mankind; and certainly Divine messengers came to them with clear arguments, but even after that many of them certainly act extravagantly in the land.. The Quran 5:32 .. In protest of the deaths of innocent civilians in Gaza, Palestine.dedicated to all the infants, all the spotless souls and who died without knowing why he or she was killed! may all innocent civilian killing stop, may no more heart of any mother bleed with the unbearable pain of losing a child, a pure love. it doesn't really ...
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'the holocaust' thats present today
2008-03-02 07:47:00
The Gaza 'Holocaust ' has begunWhat a shame, what an irony! The nation of Israel which is founded on the wound and being a victim of holocaust is continuously manifesting as a source of horrible holocaust of present day.Friday, Israel's deputy defense minister, Matan Vilnai promised Gaza would experience a "Shoah," and today the Israeli Defense Forces made good the minister's promise, raining tank shells, rockets, bullets, and bombs into the walled enclave, home to as many as 1.5 million Palestinians."Shoah is the Hebrew word for Holocaust, adapted from its biblical definition, "calamity." Literally, as Wikipedia defines it, the term is derived from the Greek word holokauston, meaning completely burnt, as a sacrificial offering to God. But which god would demand the broken and charred bodies that lay dead beneath the rubble of Gaza today? (credit)The nongovernmental Palestinian Information Center issued a statement calling Vilnai's words "the first indirect admission by an Israe...
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Sufi Shrines in America
2008-03-01 09:05:00
Shrines (also known as Dargah, Tomb, Mazar or Maqam) of highly evolved noble souls, spiritually enlightened ones and saints of God are place of Baraka or special spiritual blessings. They symbolize not only the memorializing of an insan kamil of past, but also become a sacred center of pious visitation or pilgrimage (ziyara). Such sacred space become, as reminds Osho the mystic: "... where the currents are flowing from the body towards the soul, where the whole atmosphere is charged; from where people have achieved samadhi (supra-conscious mystic state), from where people realized their enlightenment. Such places have become specially charged."Yousef W. Meri writes: "Historically, holy men and women - those revered for their exemplary piety or learning or both - have been memorialized in many forms throughout the Islamic world in North Africa and Andalusia to the sub-continent and Southeast Asia from the first century of Islam to today.Some examples of sacred centers of ziyara inclu...
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1st Sufi Saint and Muslim Shrine of America
2008-03-01 08:11:00
"You must place your faith in the one indestructible, imperishable God. To do this, you must stop depending on the kings, forces, and armies within you. When you give up all this and stand defenseless and alone, saying, O God, it is all Your will! The sheikh (spiritual guide) will stand by your side. It is only when you surrender to God that the sheikh, who is the explaining wisdom of the Qutbiyyat (Divine Gnosis, Primordial Buddha nature) which guides you on the path of God, will come to stand by your side. 'Son' he will say, 'Now you are ready. Come, let us go'." - Bawa MuhaiyaddeenSome 40 miles from Philadelphia, among the rolling hills and tall trees of Chester County, is a Mazar (a shrine), the resting place of Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, the Sufi saint and founder of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship, who left his physical body in 1986.This video is a 2 part series for Voice of America explores this Muslim shrine, the first in the United States. Since its dedication ...
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to fly toward a secret sky
2008-02-29 19:56:00
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky,to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.First, to let go of live.In the end, to take a step without feet;to regard this world as invisible,and to disregard what appears to be the self.Heart, I said, what a gift it has beento enter this circle of lovers,to see beyond seeing itself,to reach and feel within the breast..~ Rumi ~The Divani Shamsi Tabriz, XIII
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Az-Zuhd: Islamic approach on Asceticism
2008-02-28 10:08:00
Be in this worldas if you are a traveler,A passerby, with your clothesand shoes full of dust.Sometimes you will situnder the shade of a tree,Sometimes you will walk in the desert.Be a passerby always,for this world is not your home.- Prophet MuhammadFor the family of God, Az-Zuhd means to leave this world for the world-to-come, the hereafter (al-akhira), which is the true state of al-Islam; this Islam being the inner state of your life, rather than an outside one. It also means to leave this world and the hereafter for the King (al-Malik). Here you are in the station of surrender to God, which is the station (al-maqam) of Abraham, may Allah?s peace and blessings be upon him, in which all your speaking, all your time, and everything that you have will be toward Allah and for Allah alone. By this, you will reach the station of belief (al-maqam al-iman), leaving the questions of ?Why?? and ?What?? and ?Where?? and leaving the desire for either heaven or hell, and the state of your hear...
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The Poverty of Prophet Muhammad
2008-02-27 08:54:00
Faqr FakhriPoverty is my pride- Prophet Muhammad Ali Eteraz writes beautifully worth sharing here:(...) the abject poverty that afflicted the Prophet Muhammad . Here was a man who was subjected to such a long series of painful episodes, and survived them all so miraculously, that it was almost if God put him here on earth to disprove despair.That you could lose your parents within your first eight years and still become a man; that you could lose your family and their protectioin and still become a leader; that you could lose numerous sons in that age in which children are the most innocent and still be compassionate; that you could have stones thrown at your head till pools of blood accumulated in your shoes and still not give in to vengeance; that you could have your uncle impaled upon spears and his heart literally eaten and still forgive the killers; that you could sleep on mats of hay and still be regal; that you could be so lonely that rather than sitting in the city circles you...

Movie | Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul
2008-02-26 06:04:00
to find the beloved, one must have faith - Bab'Aziz, the Movie (2006)A visual poem of incomparable beauty, this masterpiece from Tunisian director Nacer Khemir (Wanderers of the Desert) begins with the story of a blind dervish named Bab?Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar. Together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every 30 years.With faith as their only guide, the two journey for days through the expansive, barren landscape. To keep Ishtar entertained, Bab?Aziz relays the ancient tale of a prince who relinquished his realm in order to remain next to a small pool in the desert, staring into its depths while contemplating his soul. As the tale of the prince unfolds, the two encounter other travelers with stories of their own ? including Osman, who longs for the beautiful woman he met at the bottom of a well, and Zaid, who searches for the ravishing young woman who fled from him after being seduced by his songs. Filled...
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activism on the internet | compassionate service and reach-out engagements
2008-02-24 18:43:00
Recently Business Week featured Activism 2.0 slide show bringing in different ways people are venturing into the internet with online philanthropy."Online activism is branching out beyond the e-mail entreaty to give and get involved. Organizations dedicated to saving everything from lives to the environment are tapping new social Web tools to drum up support online, offline, and for the bottom line. In the process, they're spurring a new generation to get out and do something besides sign up and be counted."Featured Online Activism activities include:Click to Save Darfur: The Genocide Intervention Network has launched an Internet -calling application that can identify phone numbers for local politicians and then dial them for the member, providing scripted talking points for the conversation. It also allows members to sign up for e-mail alerts with links to articles the organization wants to boost in the "most read" rankings on news sites.Help Just a Click Away: Two men, whose wives...
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Mystical Insight
2008-02-24 05:11:00
Mystical insight is much like the physical eyesight; a tiny piece of dirt in the eye impairs it?s vision as is mystic insight impaired by a small sin.- Imam Abul Hasan al-Shadhili, may God bless his noble soul and sanctify his station.. via another day in the dunya - blog
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Sufis of Kosovo and greater Balkan Europe
2008-02-23 20:07:00
Congratulations to Kosovo ! now the youngest nation on earth. Last 17th February 2008 Kosovo declared its Independence from Serbia. Following the declaration by the Kosovar Assembly several countries such as United States, Turkey, Albania, Austria, Germany, Italy, France, United Kingdom, Australia, etc. announced their recognition. Kosovo is going to be a 2nd Muslim majority Europe an nation after Turkey with more than 90% population are ethnic Albanian.Interestingly the history of Sufis m in Balkan region, including that of Kosovo is very rich. The southeastern Europe under nearly six centuries of Ottoman rule brought sufi orders at the heart of Europe with the religion of islam./ Quoted from the article by Huseyin Abiva, A Glimpse at Sufism in the Balkans: Indeed, among the nations that now comprise the Balkans Peninsula (Albania, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia) the visible Muslim component to their populations are readily evident.As w...

Iqra | recommended books
2008-02-22 22:55:00
. BismiLlah .Iqra: bi-ismi rabbika allathee khalaqa / Khalaqa al-insana min AAalaqin / Iqra: warabbuka al-akramu / Allathee AAallama bialqalami / AAallama al-insana ma lam yaAAlam.esoteric rendition | Read: In the Majestic Name of the Source, the Creator and Cherisher of Worlds / Who evolves every human form from a mere clot of Blood / Read: Thy Lord, the Ultimate Source of source is the Most Bountiful / Who teaches with the Mysterious Pen, the Universal Intellect / Unveils to the intellect that which was veiled.. The Quran 96:1-5 .The above verses were part of the first streams of Divine Revelation descending upon the heart of the Last Messenger, Prophet Muhammad which became the Last Testament, the Quran. The Quran started with the call, Iqra, meaning Read.To learn, to obtain knowledge has always been accepted as a path of illumination. It is the path through the intellect. This path has been followed by a wide variety of traditions: such as Jnana Yoga (path of knowledge) in East ...
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Describing Sufis | Bhai Sahib Radha Mohan Lal
2008-02-22 03:39:00
"We sufis are lovers of beauty. Because we have renounced the world, it does not mean that we should look miserable. But neither do we want to stand out and attract undue attention. We do not wear special robes, because that might create a barrier between other people and us. We behave like others and dress like others.We are ordinary people, living ordinary lives. We are smart with smart people, simple with simple ones, but we never give bad example. We will always lead a life of the highest morality. We will always obey the laws of the land in which we live; but in reality we are beyond the laws of men, for we obey only the Law of God. We surrendered somewhere; we are completely free!"- Bhai Sahib, Radha Mohan Lal. the sufi master of Naqshbandiyya Mujaddidiyya lineage from India. He left his physical body in 1966. may God sanctify his station.. recorded in the diary of Irina Tweedie | 16 Jan 1962. photo credit: one of the rare photos of Mahatma Radha Mohan Lal, who encouraged othe...
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Secret of "why sufis don't grow old"
2008-02-21 08:49:00
for some years Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee's teachings in terms of his writings and audio, videos freely made available through Golden Sufi website have been a prominent source of inspiration for me. if i can remember correctly i am familiar with him through Golden Sufi site since 2005. but it was only last 17th February at Berkeley during Global Oneness Project event i had the honored chance to see him for the first time face to face. it was wonderful to be in the presence of someone whom you loved and followed for such a longtime remotely without seeing him really. so when i saw him on the stage the first thing that was striking to me was how young he looks compared to all his pictures and videos of past years.later in the day, at lunch table his son Emmanuel, Founder & Director of Global Oneness Project was mentioning that earlier after Llewellyn's talks someone came up to him and commented, you have a nice brother! Emmanuel was like, father you mean! and it wasn't the first ti...
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ego stands mute before Essence
2008-02-20 00:10:00
changing time-bound ego..... stands mutebefore changeless,timeless Essence.looking up at the mirrorthe mystic sees no face.zen asks: show me your original facebefore you were born!there is no answer.ephemeral ego.. stands mute.the grand silencereaches the edges of cosmos,then starts its return journey............... again and again.silence upon silence,the Reality of Presence..... "Allah"split open the Secret,............ and behold!al-Lah : The Absolute Nothingness -all and everythingthe Divine Essence.... veilsand encompasses.(c) MysticSaintFeb 7, 2008. dedicated to and inspired by comment of Ron Marson which is borrowed in the beginning four lines.+ The Divine name Allah (Alaha in ancient aramaic language of Jesus Christ), traditionally seen as a contraction of arabic article al and ilah (God). Also on the esoteric level many sufis interpret it as al (the), La (No, Nothingness). In the teaching of Naqshbandiyya Mujaddidiyya, the sacred phrase, la ilaha illa'Llah is often transl...
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Thoughts on carrying and transmitting consciousness | from laymen to king
2008-02-19 06:40:00
1.when it comes to carrying and transmitting consciousness, depending on the nature of the message, on the nature of age and the target audience - the transmission can be different. obviously a consciousness destined for grandness eventually reach a grand audience. but interesting to note from world teachers of humanity that there are examples where consciousness is first transmitted to the kings rather than the laymen or it can work in parallel.the mighty prophet Moses was inspired and commanded to go to the King of Egypt first to carry and speak the consciousness to and to deliver the message. instead of the ordinary / lay people it was a contrast to observe. for most of the world teachers, the carrying and transmission of the consciousness started with the ordinary. Jesus started his ministry by calling ordinary fishermen in a fishing community near the sea of galilee. his followers during his lifetime where all these ordinary people of the society. the early community of the fol...
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Thoughts on carrying and transmitting consciousness | from inner to outer a
2008-02-18 09:31:00
while being at Global Oneness Project's event on Consciousness & Global Change, and listening to the vision and teaching of oneness, few stream of thoughts on how to effectively carry or transmit consciousness was coming to me which i will share here in 2 part posts.the methods of teachings of great world teachers is something really fascinating to look at in that regard. each world teachers such as Moses, Buddha or Muhammad - it's a source of great teaching and inspiration to see how they not only had very personal inner awakening of consciousness but they also went to the market place, to laymen, to the society deeply busy in mundane business to share that great awakening and consciousness. the methods might be different, but that great sincerity of each of such world teachers who single handedly inspired and changed lives of nations, ages after ages - are mind boggling. for the enlightened beings such process was a journey from inner plane to outer.first each had a profound...
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Meditation on Bhagavad Gita | with Ram Das
2008-02-18 05:33:00
Listen to Ram Das's meditative reading of GitaThose who realize true wisdomrapt within this clear awarenesssee Me as the universe's originImperishable.all their words and all their actionsissue from the depths of worship,held in my embrace they know Meas a woman knows her lover.Creatures rise and creatures vanish;I alone Am Real, Arjuna,looking out, amused, from deepwithin the eyes of every creature.I Am the object of all knowledge,Father of the world, its Mother,Source of all things, of impure andpure, of holiness and horror.I am the goal, the root, the witness,home and refuge, dearest friend,creation and annihilation,everlasting seed and treasure.I am the radiance of the sun,I open or withhold the rainclouds,I am immortality anddeath, am being and non-being.I am the Self, Arjuna, seatedin the heart of every creature.I am the origin, the middle,And the end that all must come to.Those who worship Me sincerelywith their minds and bodies, givingup their whole lives in devotion,find...
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Currently @ Berkeley
2008-02-18 05:24:00
i am now at Berkeley , California to be at the the Global Oneness Project's event on Consciousness & Global Change.it was wonderful to hear sufi teacher Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee share his vision and to watch few of the extra-ordinary works going on around the world carrying the consciousness of this oneness which is so fundamental to life and our being in this world.there was a screening of films from Global Oneness Project which are also available online. you can watch there here.Thoughts [>] on carrying and transmitting consciousness | from inner to outer and outer to inner. about Global Oneness Project

when poets call from the rooftops
2008-02-16 04:34:00
last night those who can not sleepin their inner-ear somebodywhispered and echoedthe weeping of the lost children of humanity.the weeping was heard as they say,in the streets of Kabul, Sau PauloGaza, Grozny and Colombo,in Port-au-Prince, KolkataBaghdad and JakartaDarfur, Kinshasha and Manila ...as it kept coming and coming,echoing and echoingfrom all corners of the world,wailing and lamenting so intense!Heart, I said, what an agony it has beento be witness to the weeping of humanity,to feel the pain of the Divine,Who calls to every inner ear of poets and prophetscalling not from far, but nearcalling, calling since the aeons of timecalling since always to wake us upfrom this mad slumber.calling to free ourselvesfrom this bondage of slaverywe orchestrated so thoroughly.now let the poets stand upand give call from the rooftops,in every inner-ear of every heartlet the call of humanity be heard.(c) MysticSaintFeb, 2008 Los Angeles, Californiafirst edition published @ Poets for Human Righ...
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mud cookies | poverty and utterly sad state of humanity
2008-02-15 04:23:00
Have you heard of mud cookies? Imagine cookies made of dirt, salt, and vegetable oil! Few days back Dr. S. Amjad Hussain, a Toledo surgeon whose column appears every other week in The Toledo Blade shared an article he wrote about utter poverty in Haiti where people had resorted to eating dirt to stave off hunger. Dr. Hussain writes:... Haiti where poverty and starvation are forcing the poor and the destitute to eat mud cookies called terre made from yellow clay, salt, and vegetable oil.Haiti is not, by any stretch of imagination, the only country in the world where people are starving. Poverty and hunger are worldwide phenomena and these numbers attest to that assertion. Each year more than 80 million people die worldwide because they cannot afford to stay alive. More than 1 billion people, 1 in every 6 persons, live on less than $1 a day and a great majority of them go to bed hungry and get up hungry.There are reasons and causes galore for poverty and being lazy or unmotivated are ...
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Karen Armstrong on free speech and contraditions in western values | Europe
2008-02-15 02:08:00
In Guardian, prominent author and religious scholar Karen Armstrong wrote on the issue free speech in the context of Danish Cartoon back in July 2007. She is also the author of two biographies of the Prophet, Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet and Muhammad: A Prophet of Our Time.Quoted below is from her article: An inability to tolerate Islam contradicts western values:"In the 17th century, when some Iranian mullahs were trying to limit freedom of expression, Mulla Sadra, the great mystical philosopher of Isfahan, insisted that all Muslims were perfectly capable of thinking for themselves and that any religiosity based on intellectual repression and inquisitorial coercion was "polluted". Mulla Sadra exerted a profound influence on generations of Iranians, but it is ironic that his most famous disciple was probably Ayatollah Khomeini, author of the fatwa against Salman Rushdie.This type of contradiction is becoming increasingly frequent in our polarised world (...)(...) the cartoo...
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Responsing evil with hateful ignorance | Danish newpaper republish Muhammad
2008-02-13 22:58:00
No sane, intelligent person, be it muslim or non-muslim will support the handful fanatics' reaction of the willing to harm and kill the cartoonists who depicted the caricature of Muhammad . Obviously the cartoons and the caricatures were wrong in the first place as they were done with political bias with no fair understanding of Islam or the teachings of the Prophet. Those who drew such cartoons stupidly equate a handful of terrorist with the teaching of Islam, which condemn such behavior in the slightest degree let alone killing innocents.If it is terrorism, which all people of the whole world condemn, then it made much more sense to draw Osama Bin Laden instead of the Prophet. Instead of drawing caricature of Osama Bin Laden (who was infact an ex-CIA agent and supported by America while fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan not so long ago), when cartoons of a religious figure is drawn knowing the sensitivity of the faith, its no brainer to understand the lack of intellect.Danish po...
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Service of Divine servanthood
2008-02-13 08:47:00
When our beloved Prophet was asked by Allah Most High, in the secret shrine of his heart whether he would prefer to be a king prophet or a servant prophet, he answered with the fullness of divine wisdom:?a servant prophet.?Therefore we call him Muhammad Abduhu wa Rasuluhu, Muhammad the Servant and Messenger of the All-Merciful Source, may Allah?s peace be upon him forever. He declared of his own life, ?fakhri fahri - poverty is my pride.? The mystic masters interpret this to mean poverty on all levels.Outwardly, he distributed everything to the needy of his community, so that he owned nothing. He declared that if he received a mountain of wealth in the morning it would be given away by nightfall. On the inner level his poverty was also complete, and here is the true meaning of faqir. He was empty of all but Allah. He did not exist except in Allah. His hearing, seeing, and knowing were only through Allah. He refrained from all personal initiative, following simply the command of Alla...
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why are you here?
2008-02-12 15:23:00
. 1 .tradition has it that all masterswhen meeting with aspirant seeker,with an ancient, ancient questiongreet the new comer:"why are you here?" *. 2 .what will you replyif you were the seeker?imagine.dive in.grant yourself:i am here to witness maktub: 'it is written'the grand secret of the alchemists, the sufis.'Thy Will' is always done.we all come here, not by our own will but with His.we come to participate,His grand play we witnesswhere we all are one in oneness.. 3 .now here you are,at the feet of your master!Rumi says: "He Who has brought me herewill take me back Home."for a seekerwhere else is better home herebut at the feet of master,who takes us toThe Master Singular.in absolute realityWho Alone Exists,Who always IS.(c) Sadiq M. AlamFeb, 2008 | Los Angeles, CA+ dedicated to beloved sufi teacher, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee +:: note. * The traditional question of every Oriental Teacher to an aspirant or a would-be disciple. According to Spiritual Law the human being must clea...

Tagged for Book Meme
2008-02-11 09:25:00
Inspirations and Creative Thoughts is ?Tagged ? by Darvish blog author Irving Karchmar, on a new book meme, and the rules are as follows:1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages)2. Open the book to page 1233. Find the 5th Sentence4. Post the next 3 sentences5. Tag 5 people.At the headside of my bed in the piles of books there are many books equally near! so after scanning through i picked up a beautiful English translation of Quran which is done with a Phrase-by-Phrase translation approach. Its translated by 'Ali Quli Qara'i and was presented to me by a dear heart sister in Islam, Maryam - sent all the way from Iran. Particularly i like this translation because reading parallel its really helpful understand the arabic and its english equivalence.It turns out that pg. 123 takes me to 4th Chapter of the Quran, Surat Al-Nisa (The Women). Here are the quoted lines: Bismi'Llah,. Say, 'The enjoyment of this world is little and the Hereafter is better for the Godwary, . and yo...
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Vision of wholeness and oneness | Irina Tweedie
2008-02-10 11:56:00
THE REALIZATION that every act, every word, every thought of ours not only influences our environment but for some mysterious reason forms an integral and important part of the Universe, fits into it as if by necessity so to say, in the very moment we do, or say, or think it - is an overwhelming and even shattering experience.The tremendous responsibility of it is terrifying. If all of us only knew that the smallest act of ours, or a tiny thought, has such far-reaching effects as to set in motion forces which perhaps could shatter a galaxy...If we know it deeply and absolutely, if this realization becomes engraved permanently on our hearts, on our minds, how careful we would act and speak and think.How precious life would become in its integral oneness. And this, I think, is as far as the human mind and heart can go. It is as far as I can go at this moment in time where I am standing now. And I think that this is the ultimate Goal of Mysticism. This experience can become only deeper...
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Muhammad | the praised one
2008-02-09 21:02:00
The name, Muhammad means the praised one. The term also appears in Hebrew Bible. In the Song of Solomon (5:16) it reads: "Yea, he is altogether lovely" in English translation which in original Hebrew Bible, the word is "Muhammad-im".The image of Islam's Prophet among Muslims originates from explicit Qur'anic proclamations, such as, blessed (33:56), mercy towards all creations (21:107), emancipator of humanity (7:157), etc. According to Ibn Durayd's (837CE-933CE) Kitab al Ishtiqaq, Muhammad means one who is continuously praised. Muhammad's other name Ahmed (61:6) has similar meaning. And the Qur'an declares Muhammad to be raised to the station of praise and glory, that is, ?Maqamam Mahmood? (17:79). Still Muhammad is human (17:94) of the noblest moral character (68:4).Muhammad also became widely known in Europe by diverse forms of the name such as Mahon, Mahomés, Mahun, Mahum, and Mahumet (all French), Machmet (German), and Maúmet (Old Icelandic).Muhammad's ?sacred names,? whic...
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Rumi on Oneness
2008-02-08 18:01:00
my place is the placeless,the trace of the tracelessneither bodyor souli belong to the Beloved,have seen the two worlds as Oneand that One called toand know:First,Last,Outer,Inner.only that breathbreathing,human - being.- Rumi version by Coleman Barks:: note. Awwal - The First (Alpha),. Akhir - The Last (Omega),. Zahir - The Outer,. Batin - The Inner- are four of ninety nine Beautiful Names of God (asma-ul husna) as taught in the Divine Revelation of Quran and by the master of mystics, Prophet Muhammad, upon him be love of God. These particular four names / attributes contain the quintessential secret of secret of Divine Manifestation.[>] Audio-Video | listen to this beautiful poem Only Breath by Rumi, translated and recited by Coleman Barks with a breathtaking visual of our planet earth which for mystics is nothing but a Divine Revelation Itself and this video capture that essence so beautifully! click here.
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Consciousness and Global Change | A Foundation for Spiritual Activism | a d
2008-02-07 11:37:00
"May we be those who shall renew this existence."- Zarathustra"(...) I personally feel very strongly that those of us who have a spiritual awareness have a vital contribution to make, in a way that brings together our own inner awakening and inner awareness and the present global situation. specifically (...) the state of mystical oneness and its relationship to the whole of life."- Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, from the talk Awareness of Oneness+ What is the foundation for real global change?+ How can the individual affect the whole?Come this Feb, 17th Berkeley, California, an event of discussion, meditation and consciousness opening is arranged that will combine an inner and outer exploration of oneness. Sufi teacher Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee will explore how an awareness of oneness is the foundation for any real change, and the Global Oneness Project will use films to show how oneness is lived around the world.Sunday, February 17 (11am to 5pm)A Free Event With Films, Discussion & Medit...
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