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What would it be like if, at will, we could “silence the mind and be aware at the core of our being.” Sufi Master, Kabir Helminski writes that from these depths we receive “help from the Source of Life.” As we learn to join ourselves with this Source—some would call it God—we find that it contains all the qualities of Spirit in potential, waiting to express through our unique vessel. Upcoming, in-person offerings with Thomas: 7-day meditation retreat (September 30th - October 7th) 9-month deep dive in the contemplative life (still accepting applications)  

Send us a textI'm thrilled to share the latest episode of the "Endless Possibilities Podcast" with you. This one is truly special, featuring the incredible journey of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, also known as David Donald. Trust me, you don't want to miss this!Here are some of the key takeaways and intriguing insights from our conversation:

The revival of Shi‘ite Sufism, after the destruction of Safavid empire, occurred during the Zand dynasty (1163-1209/1750-1794) and continued through the Qājār era. As Zarrīnkub has pointed out, the Qājār era was a time of nostalgia for the noble past. Of course, their mystical philosophy had to fit the theological standards of Shi‎‘ite society. The two leading Sufi orders in this revival movement were the Ni‘matullāhīs and the Dhahabīs. These two orders had much in common, as both of them highly emphasized the importance of following Islamic laws and Shi‎‘ite beliefs. They were known to be the propagators of Akbarian philosophy in Persia. Dhahabīs and Ni‘matullāhīs were strong promoters of the school of “Unity of Being” (Waḥdat al-wujūd). Mīrzā Muḥammad Taqī, with the spiritual title of Muẓaffar ‘Alī Shāh (d.1215/1800) is one of the most influential masters in the history of Ni‘matullāhiyya order. This Shi‘ite Sufi master is one of the most active and knowledgeable masters of the Ni‘matullāhīs during this era. He is the first master after the return of the order to Persia who wrote about its cosmological views, based on the philosophy of “Unity of Being”. In his youth, he began studying the rational and traditional seminary sciences (‘ulūm ‘aqlī wa naqlī) and became well-versed in them. Muẓaffar was more of a mystic philosopher (ḥakīm) than a jurist (faqīh), and extremely well-versed in speculative Sufism, following the school of “Unity of Being”. Muẓaffar ‘Alī Shāh's mystical poetry had in-depth mystical meanings, with heavy reliance of Ibn ‘Arabī's philosophy and terminology. Muẓaffar was very influential for the development of the Ni‘matullāhī order and as a propagator of Ibn ‘Arabī's thoughts. His beliefs about the perfect man, insān-i kāmil, were highly influenced by Akbarian (Ibn ‘Arabī's) philosophy. Muẓaffar passed away in 1215/1800. He wrote numerous books and literary papers, which are tremendously valuable for a better understanding of Ni‘matullāhī thought. Muẓaffar ‘Alī Shāh wrote poetry lamenting over his separation from his master, Mushtāq, to whom he dedicated a compendium of his poetry, calling it Diwān-i Mushtāqīyya. In this paper, we will examine two of Muẓaffar's writings: “Sea of the Secrets” (baḥr al-asrār) and “Compendium of the Seas” (majma‘ al-biḥār) which are both interpretations of the first chapter of Quran. “Sea of the Secrets” (baḥr al-asrār) is in verse form of Mathnawī and “Compendium of the Seas” (majma‘ al-biḥār) is written in prose. In these two works, Muẓaffar ‘Alī Shāh heavily relied on the chapter of Prophet Adam in Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam of Ibn ‘Arabī. He had numerous references to Ibn ‘Arabī and his writings. Muẓaffar ‘Alī Shāh explains the relationship between Nubuwwa (prophethood), Risāla (apostleship) and Wilāya (sainthood) based on Ibn ‘Arabī's teachings using his terminology like the disclosure of Attributes of Divine Majesty (jalāl) and disclosure of Attributes of Divine Beauty (jamāl). This paper investigates the importance of Muẓaffar ‘Alī Shāh for survival of the school of “Unity of Being” among practicing Shi‘ite Sufis in general and the Ni‘matullāhī Sufi in particular as one of the most important Shi‘ite Sufi orders in Iran.

 That you cannot live a healthy, sexual, loving relationship with the opposite sex! Our inner path should not be an escape from the world.I read honest biographies of the famous Gurus in the last 100 years.Almost everyone had a sexual relationship that he/she was hiding and was lying to be in celibacy…When we cannot surrender our heart to the opposite sex: Then we cannot surrender our hearts to God.Because we have blocked our heart chakra, true spirituality is impossible with a blocked heart chakra.Then we cannot unite our male and female energy or Yang and Yin to become neutral and that is necessary! Our darling is a reflection and represents ourselves, in the form of the opposite sex. Every bad habit that we see in our darling is hidden in ourselves or that actually represent us.Our sins we see first in other people (Goethe). How can we discover the opposite pole in ourselves be it yin or yang if we reject the opposite sex? This is not possible.  The worst thing on the spiritual path is to block our sexual energy because sexual energy is the only energy that we can use for our spirituality. And 33% of our energy is sexual energy.Then we have sexual shame and that hinders us from raising up our sexual energy or even more our Kundalini from the root chakra to the crown chakra.Without Kundalini we never can experience our real spirituality. For instance The true Guru Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan gave so many people a higher spiritual experience during his concerts than anybody before him; - he was married and had one daughter.The true Guru Radha Mohan Lal, of Irina Tweedie, book: Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master. He was married, had kidsDilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, the highest Guru of the Tibetan and Guru of the Dalai Lama was married and had 5 kids. When King Ramana refused to marry and wanted to renounce the world, his Guru told him, tell me what is not God, so why should it not be holy to marry? Read the Book Siddhartha by Herman Hesse.My Video: What is the biggest obstacle on the spiritual path? https://youtu.be/bktJWHT2fL0 My Audio: https://divinesuccess.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/Podcast4/What-is-the-biggest-obstacle-on-the-spiritual-path.mp3

When one gives up on his inner enemies (namely ego, anger, lust, greed, jealousy etcetera) he can see and realize God with ease.http://saibalsanskaar.wordpress.com

Jonny is the creator of the 'Autism Dialogue' Approach. Inspired by Bohmian dialogue, it takes a new approach to autism in which it becomes a question rather than a box. In Autism dialogue, Autism opens the space of enquiry into self. Jonny is a director of Dialogica a UK organisation training and leading in the Autism Dialogue approach. Prior to his work in autism spent two decades student to a Sufi Master in the U.K. https://dialogica.uk/people/ Jacob Kishere is a philosopher, experimental artist and practitioner of Dialogos. He creates music and writes as Culturepilgrim (on substack) as well as captaining SENSESPACE podcast: an exciting emergent dialogue project now in its 3rd year.

Interested in exploring new religions far removed from Christianity but don't know where to begin? Join Paul on a deep dive into Sufism with Mehrdad Noorani, an experienced instructor of Heart Meditation and the Alchemy of Inner Silence whose life mission is bridging the gaps between science and spirituality in this meditative Living 4D conversation. Learn more about Merhdad and his work at his Heart Meditation website including his article on Conscience and Consciousness. Consider joining Mehrdad's FREE six-month Journey to Inner Peace and Wellbeing class that meets once a month. TimestampsSufism: A path of substantial evolution of the mind, body and soul. (6:14)A balanced evolution. (9:55)Can you take psychedelics and practice Sufism? (13:36)“If you think you want to be a Sufi master, you will never become one.” (26:07)Characteristics of good, sincere teachers. (35:51)A short history of Sufism. (41:10)Women must re-emerge to restore the balance in our world. (55:16)The Sermon. (1:02:15)Heart: The House of God. (1:13:35)Ego. (1:20:57)A matter of time, not place. (1:37:25)Essence. (1:43:32)Listen to your heartbeat in silence and drumming. (1:59:09)Be an objective observer. (2:14:55)Heartbeats. (2:19:55)All tastes the same. (2:36:39)“Sufis and regular people face the same storms, but Sufis should learn from them.” (2:43:02) ResourcesMystic Iran: The Unseen WorldThe Man of Light in Iranian Sufism by Henry CorbinThe Pearl of Sufism and The Teachings of a Sufi Master by Seyed Mostafa AzmayeshThe work of Huston Smith, Plotinus and Toshihiko IzutsuPaul's Living 4D conversations with Rachel Epstein and Paul LevyThe Man With the Inexplicable Life by OshoThe dafNasreddinFind more resources for this episode on our website.Thanks to our awesome sponsors: CHEK Institute/PT3.0 Paleovalley chek15 BiOptimizers PAUL10 Cymbiotika L4D15 Organifi CHEK20We may earn commissions from qualifying purchases using affiliate links.

"“There exist other kinds of thinking selves beyond the human”. - Eduardo Kohn "One of the instrumental figures in bringing the music of the drone to the West is the Sufi musician Hazrat Inayat Kahn. His musical treatise from the early 20th century, simply titled Music, is an incredible sonic-spiritual composition on the potentials and possibilities of music as law, as cosmology, as harmony. “Music is behind the whole working of the universe”, the Sufi Master wrote, “We live and move and have our being in music”. "In contemplating natures music, in finding ears to hear it, a body to feel and dance it, a mind to celebrate and (re)think it, and -all together- a spirit to create it, I fatefully encountered this incredible ‘unidentified sound #1' from AWI's PALAOA observatory in Antarctica. This strange, long, low frequency drone from somewhere in the Antarctic Ocean has an unknown origin. Is it from a creature? From water? From some geological feature? A nearby machine or ship? All that is known about the origin of this sound is that no ship was within a thousand km radius when it was recorded. What we can say for certain is that it is a subaquatic sounding of Earth, of universe, captured expertly and offered for us here to resonate with, to find resonance in the unknown of the sonosphere. "When I first heard the recording, I immediately felt that it was already so beautifully strange that it required only very little to elicit its charms. I only wanted to amplify its qualities, saturate its mysteries. Considering it as a vocalization of Earth I simply play along with it, in amity and community. To get there, I put myself into a trance through a listening meditation and recognize the sounder. I reflect the sound multiply into the eternal of drone. I play back to the sounder an image of itself that is also me. This track operates as an attentional strategy for rediscovering ourselves in the more- than-human world. "Water, amongst other things, is a specifically acoustic environment. Sound travels faster than light in water, and whale song is thought to produce holographic ‘images' within the mind of the ancient creatures as they communicate with one another across vast distances. Creatures both aquatic and terrestrial use sound as a form of sight: sonar. If we consider this ‘sonic sight' in an expanded sense, then when I deeply listen to this sound, I am, in a sense, recognized by it, or whatever emanates it. In coming to witness one another -over time- we come to recognize each other. In that unspeakable recognition between myself and the sound, I believe we have a camaraderie, we are in, of, and as the thought(s) of the world beyond the human. "If you take a look at the wave/sonogram of this composition, you will see an audio Rorschach figure swimming or flying out of the vibration. This has to do partly with the way the structure of the composition was prepared: first playing the original recording backwards (to get to know it better), and then forwards. In that reflection between the polar edges of the Earth and my Farfisa (an electric organ) I acknowledge and celebrate mystery as mystery. I find solace in what is immeasurable, intangible, uncertain. It is there in the musicality of resonant Earth that the radical plurality and multiplicity of worlds and thought resides and resounds in a relational dynamic that exists beyond experience." Unidentified sound reimagined by Jol Thoms. Part of the Polar Sounds project, a collaboration between Cities and Memory, the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Explore the project in full at http://citiesandmemory.com/polar-sounds. 

The Gift of Rumi: Experiencing the Wisdom of the Sufi Master (St. Martin's Press, 2022), written by Dr. Emily Jane O'Dell was published by St. Martin's Press in 2022. In this rich and insightful book, Dr. O'Dell takes us through her own spiritual and physical travels, as well as gives us historical and Islamic mystic context to help us understand and cherish the words of Rumi on a deeper level. As one of the world's most loved poets, Rumi's poems are celebrated for their message of love and their beauty, but too often they are stripped of their mystical and spiritual meanings. The Gift of Rumi offers a new reading of Rumi, contextualizing his work against the broader backdrop of Islamic mysticism and adding a richness and authenticity that is lacking in many Westernized conceptions of his work. Author Emily Jane O'Dell has studied Sufism both academically, in her work and research at Harvard, Columbia, and the American University of Beirut, and in practice, learning from a Mevlevi master and his whirling dervishes in Istanbul. She weaves this expertise throughout The Gift of Rumi, sharing a new vision of Rumi's classic work. At the heart of Rumi's mystical poetry is the “religion of love” which transcends all religions. Through his majestic verses of ecstasy and longing, Rumi invites us into the religion of the heart and guides us to our own loving inner essence. The Gift of Rumi gives us a key to experiencing this profound and powerful invitation, allowing readers to meet the master in a new way. Meg Gambino is an artist and activist currently working as the Client and Community Relations Manager at a local nonprofit focused on ending hunger in North Penn. Her life mission is to creatively empower others by modeling reconciliation between communities of people and people on the margins. Find her on Instagram @megambino. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The Gift of Rumi: Experiencing the Wisdom of the Sufi Master (St. Martin's Press, 2022), written by Dr. Emily Jane O'Dell was published by St. Martin's Press in 2022. In this rich and insightful book, Dr. O'Dell takes us through her own spiritual and physical travels, as well as gives us historical and Islamic mystic context to help us understand and cherish the words of Rumi on a deeper level. As one of the world's most loved poets, Rumi's poems are celebrated for their message of love and their beauty, but too often they are stripped of their mystical and spiritual meanings. The Gift of Rumi offers a new reading of Rumi, contextualizing his work against the broader backdrop of Islamic mysticism and adding a richness and authenticity that is lacking in many Westernized conceptions of his work. Author Emily Jane O'Dell has studied Sufism both academically, in her work and research at Harvard, Columbia, and the American University of Beirut, and in practice, learning from a Mevlevi master and his whirling dervishes in Istanbul. She weaves this expertise throughout The Gift of Rumi, sharing a new vision of Rumi's classic work. At the heart of Rumi's mystical poetry is the “religion of love” which transcends all religions. Through his majestic verses of ecstasy and longing, Rumi invites us into the religion of the heart and guides us to our own loving inner essence. The Gift of Rumi gives us a key to experiencing this profound and powerful invitation, allowing readers to meet the master in a new way. Meg Gambino is an artist and activist currently working as the Client and Community Relations Manager at a local nonprofit focused on ending hunger in North Penn. Her life mission is to creatively empower others by modeling reconciliation between communities of people and people on the margins. Find her on Instagram @megambino. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/islamic-studies

The Gift of Rumi: Experiencing the Wisdom of the Sufi Master (St. Martin's Press, 2022), written by Dr. Emily Jane O'Dell was published by St. Martin's Press in 2022. In this rich and insightful book, Dr. O'Dell takes us through her own spiritual and physical travels, as well as gives us historical and Islamic mystic context to help us understand and cherish the words of Rumi on a deeper level. As one of the world's most loved poets, Rumi's poems are celebrated for their message of love and their beauty, but too often they are stripped of their mystical and spiritual meanings. The Gift of Rumi offers a new reading of Rumi, contextualizing his work against the broader backdrop of Islamic mysticism and adding a richness and authenticity that is lacking in many Westernized conceptions of his work. Author Emily Jane O'Dell has studied Sufism both academically, in her work and research at Harvard, Columbia, and the American University of Beirut, and in practice, learning from a Mevlevi master and his whirling dervishes in Istanbul. She weaves this expertise throughout The Gift of Rumi, sharing a new vision of Rumi's classic work. At the heart of Rumi's mystical poetry is the “religion of love” which transcends all religions. Through his majestic verses of ecstasy and longing, Rumi invites us into the religion of the heart and guides us to our own loving inner essence. The Gift of Rumi gives us a key to experiencing this profound and powerful invitation, allowing readers to meet the master in a new way. Meg Gambino is an artist and activist currently working as the Client and Community Relations Manager at a local nonprofit focused on ending hunger in North Penn. Her life mission is to creatively empower others by modeling reconciliation between communities of people and people on the margins. Find her on Instagram @megambino. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/middle-eastern-studies

The Gift of Rumi: Experiencing the Wisdom of the Sufi Master (St. Martin's Press, 2022), written by Dr. Emily Jane O'Dell was published by St. Martin's Press in 2022. In this rich and insightful book, Dr. O'Dell takes us through her own spiritual and physical travels, as well as gives us historical and Islamic mystic context to help us understand and cherish the words of Rumi on a deeper level. As one of the world's most loved poets, Rumi's poems are celebrated for their message of love and their beauty, but too often they are stripped of their mystical and spiritual meanings. The Gift of Rumi offers a new reading of Rumi, contextualizing his work against the broader backdrop of Islamic mysticism and adding a richness and authenticity that is lacking in many Westernized conceptions of his work. Author Emily Jane O'Dell has studied Sufism both academically, in her work and research at Harvard, Columbia, and the American University of Beirut, and in practice, learning from a Mevlevi master and his whirling dervishes in Istanbul. She weaves this expertise throughout The Gift of Rumi, sharing a new vision of Rumi's classic work. At the heart of Rumi's mystical poetry is the “religion of love” which transcends all religions. Through his majestic verses of ecstasy and longing, Rumi invites us into the religion of the heart and guides us to our own loving inner essence. The Gift of Rumi gives us a key to experiencing this profound and powerful invitation, allowing readers to meet the master in a new way. Meg Gambino is an artist and activist currently working as the Client and Community Relations Manager at a local nonprofit focused on ending hunger in North Penn. Her life mission is to creatively empower others by modeling reconciliation between communities of people and people on the margins. Find her on Instagram @megambino. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/poetry

The Gift of Rumi: Experiencing the Wisdom of the Sufi Master (St. Martin's Press, 2022), written by Dr. Emily Jane O'Dell was published by St. Martin's Press in 2022. In this rich and insightful book, Dr. O'Dell takes us through her own spiritual and physical travels, as well as gives us historical and Islamic mystic context to help us understand and cherish the words of Rumi on a deeper level. As one of the world's most loved poets, Rumi's poems are celebrated for their message of love and their beauty, but too often they are stripped of their mystical and spiritual meanings. The Gift of Rumi offers a new reading of Rumi, contextualizing his work against the broader backdrop of Islamic mysticism and adding a richness and authenticity that is lacking in many Westernized conceptions of his work. Author Emily Jane O'Dell has studied Sufism both academically, in her work and research at Harvard, Columbia, and the American University of Beirut, and in practice, learning from a Mevlevi master and his whirling dervishes in Istanbul. She weaves this expertise throughout The Gift of Rumi, sharing a new vision of Rumi's classic work. At the heart of Rumi's mystical poetry is the “religion of love” which transcends all religions. Through his majestic verses of ecstasy and longing, Rumi invites us into the religion of the heart and guides us to our own loving inner essence. The Gift of Rumi gives us a key to experiencing this profound and powerful invitation, allowing readers to meet the master in a new way. Meg Gambino is an artist and activist currently working as the Client and Community Relations Manager at a local nonprofit focused on ending hunger in North Penn. Her life mission is to creatively empower others by modeling reconciliation between communities of people and people on the margins. Find her on Instagram @megambino. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

The Gift of Rumi: Experiencing the Wisdom of the Sufi Master (St. Martin's Press, 2022), written by Dr. Emily Jane O'Dell was published by St. Martin's Press in 2022. In this rich and insightful book, Dr. O'Dell takes us through her own spiritual and physical travels, as well as gives us historical and Islamic mystic context to help us understand and cherish the words of Rumi on a deeper level. As one of the world's most loved poets, Rumi's poems are celebrated for their message of love and their beauty, but too often they are stripped of their mystical and spiritual meanings. The Gift of Rumi offers a new reading of Rumi, contextualizing his work against the broader backdrop of Islamic mysticism and adding a richness and authenticity that is lacking in many Westernized conceptions of his work. Author Emily Jane O'Dell has studied Sufism both academically, in her work and research at Harvard, Columbia, and the American University of Beirut, and in practice, learning from a Mevlevi master and his whirling dervishes in Istanbul. She weaves this expertise throughout The Gift of Rumi, sharing a new vision of Rumi's classic work. At the heart of Rumi's mystical poetry is the “religion of love” which transcends all religions. Through his majestic verses of ecstasy and longing, Rumi invites us into the religion of the heart and guides us to our own loving inner essence. The Gift of Rumi gives us a key to experiencing this profound and powerful invitation, allowing readers to meet the master in a new way. Meg Gambino is an artist and activist currently working as the Client and Community Relations Manager at a local nonprofit focused on ending hunger in North Penn. Her life mission is to creatively empower others by modeling reconciliation between communities of people and people on the margins. Find her on Instagram @megambino. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/spiritual-practice-and-mindfulness

The Gift of Rumi: Experiencing the Wisdom of the Sufi Master (St. Martin's Press, 2022), written by Dr. Emily Jane O'Dell was published by St. Martin's Press in 2022. In this rich and insightful book, Dr. O'Dell takes us through her own spiritual and physical travels, as well as gives us historical and Islamic mystic context to help us understand and cherish the words of Rumi on a deeper level. As one of the world's most loved poets, Rumi's poems are celebrated for their message of love and their beauty, but too often they are stripped of their mystical and spiritual meanings. The Gift of Rumi offers a new reading of Rumi, contextualizing his work against the broader backdrop of Islamic mysticism and adding a richness and authenticity that is lacking in many Westernized conceptions of his work. Author Emily Jane O'Dell has studied Sufism both academically, in her work and research at Harvard, Columbia, and the American University of Beirut, and in practice, learning from a Mevlevi master and his whirling dervishes in Istanbul. She weaves this expertise throughout The Gift of Rumi, sharing a new vision of Rumi's classic work. At the heart of Rumi's mystical poetry is the “religion of love” which transcends all religions. Through his majestic verses of ecstasy and longing, Rumi invites us into the religion of the heart and guides us to our own loving inner essence. The Gift of Rumi gives us a key to experiencing this profound and powerful invitation, allowing readers to meet the master in a new way. Meg Gambino is an artist and activist currently working as the Client and Community Relations Manager at a local nonprofit focused on ending hunger in North Penn. Her life mission is to creatively empower others by modeling reconciliation between communities of people and people on the margins. Find her on Instagram @megambino. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ruth Gould Goodman developed and named Conscious Body Energetics - the integration of her many years as an Energy Healer, Acupuncturist and teacher of Somatic Engagement through body work, dance prayer and movement meditation. She is also deeply influenced and grateful for her years of work with Sufi Master, Adnan Sarhan. Ruth is the Author of, “The Sacred Book of U: Unveiling the Lost Teaching of the Deep Feminine” https://player.vimeo.com/video/738317401?h=9bbb2a30e3 #angelladymovie #angellady #healing www.consciousbodyenergetics.com Ruthgouldgoodman@gmail.com  

Guru Kabir is considered to be one of the primary founding masters of Sant Mat spirituality, the Sant tradition. Kabir is also the "Rumi" of India, a wonderful bhakti poet-mystic and lover of the Beloved Lord of the Soul, the Ocean of Love.   Sant Kabir lived during the fifteenth century, raised near Banaras by Muslim parents. He was a weaver, a simple and unlettered man, who earned his living at the loom. It is out of the heart of the common life that he sings his rapturous lyrics of Divine love.   “Kabir” is an Islamic name popular in the Muslim world — it's one of the “Ninety-Nine Names of Allah” found in the Koran, meaning, “The Greatest”.    Today, Kabir has over twenty-five million devotees in various Kabir Panth and Sant lineages, and is loved by Sikhs, Hindus, Jains, Christians, and Muslims alike. Kabir's hymns are still sung in the satsangs of various paths all over India and around the world.   Everyone's Universal Saint, Kabir was:    - a Master or Sant Sat Guru of Surat Shabd Yoga, a founding Guru of Sant Mat and Kabir Panths;   - a musician and poet of Nirguna Bhakti (love and devotion for the One Beloved Formless God);   - a great teacher of Eastern Gnosis (Gnosticism or mysticism);   - peace maker between Hindus and Muslims;   - a social reformer in India who denounced the caste system;   - thought of by many in Islam to be a Sufi Master or Murshid;   - believed by Hindus to be one of the greatest poet-mystics and Vaishnava devotees in the history of India;   - considered a Bhagat by the Sikhs — many of his hymns are included in the Adi Granth (Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh scriptures);   - influenced by Goraknath and the Nath Yogis, and the Nath Yogis of northern India were, in turn, influenced by Tantric Buddhism;   - Kabir's spirituality is a blend of Prem and Bhakti: love and devotion for the Beloved Lord, the One God (Ek Ongkaar), and mystical, soul travel experiences of a visionary and auditory nature (Inner Light and Sound Meditation, Surat Shabd Yoga).   All for the love of wisdom, radio, and podcasts, James Bean Spiritual Awakening Radio https://www.SpiritualAwakeningRadio.com      

This time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, we recieve a beautiful prose letter written and recited by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee to his granddaughter. It explores the state of the modern world and how the next generation can access the mythological magic of being alive.This podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowLlewellyn Vaughan-Lee, PhD is a Sufi teacher in the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Sufi Order. He is the author of Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master and founder of The Golden Sufi Center.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this documentary, we visit with a community of Americans who have embraced the peaceful path of the Sufis—an Islamic tradition known for inspiring poetry and a gentle universal appeal. Included in this program are remarks by the widely-revered Sufi master, M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen along with comments by his students who try to practice Sufi […]

(English) Casual conversations revealed the bits and pieces of selflessness of Supreme Master Ching Hai. Her daily meals consist of brown rice, mung beans and sesame only, so she can dedicate all her time and energy for the well-being of sentient beings. Her life is the great example of a spiritual practitioner. Master also told disciples a story of a Sufi Master and his different types of disciples. Master pointed out that apart from the friendship or parental love we look for in a master, we should also look for ...

Today's passage, “When you meet Buddha on the road, kill him” – this verse was reportedly said by Zen Buddhist master, Lin Chi who died in 866 A.D. If we are searching for answers outside of our inner knowing, we are abandoning our agency to adopt the ideas and beliefs another. Sufi Master, Rumi said, “What you are seeking is also seeking you.” Meaning, everything you seek has been within you all along.Remember, Tony Robbin's 2016 documentary aptly titled, “I'm not Guru”? Same  idea. There is no duality.  If we believe we are separate from others, we begin to operate under a self-imposed limitation. Playing it small.Have you ever played small because you didn't believe in your own ability to succeed? I know in my 20s, I was asked by our department director to apply for a manager role and I declined because one of the young men I worked alongside was applying for that same role. I saw him as the Buddha, more capable and knowledgeable than myself.On the flip side, if you are a parent, are you parenting as the Buddha in your home? Is your parent-child relationship based on a hierarchy that requires obedience at all cost in strict adherence to your vision for your children's lives? Or, do you believe that your children developing their independence -their signature- is more important than their total compliance to your teachings? Will you kill Buddha or follow the paths of others?Connect with me: Instagram.com/megan_nycmom

In this episode, I speak with Pernilla Myrne and Laury Silvers about the limits of historical sources, the methods historians employ to uncover the lives of the marginalized in society, and the role of the imaginative as a space for giving voice to the silenced. Sources cited in the episode:Abdel-Latif, Sara. “Narrativizing Early Mystic and Sufi Women: Mechanisms of gendering in Sufi hagiographies,” Routledge Handbook of Sufism. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021.Jones-Rogers, Stephanie. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave-Owners in the American South. Yale University Press, 2019.Mahmood, Saba. Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011.Nguyen, Martin. Sufi Master and Qur’an Scholar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. ContributorsPernilla Myrne is an Associate Professor of Arabic Literature and History at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She has published on the representation of women and women as creative agents in pre-modern Arabic literature, including the monograph Female Sexuality in the Early Medieval Islamic World (IB Tauris, 2020), history of emotions and slavery. Her current research explores the manuscript traditions and reception of medieval Arabic sex advice manuals, aiming at looking into attitudes to sexuality in the medieval Islamic world.Laury Silvers is a retired historian of early Sufism and the lives and practices of early pious and mystic women who writes historical mysteries set in the time and place of her research. Follow her on Twitter @waraqamusa and explore her website for the historical background of the novels and audio readings. The first two of her historical mysteries The Lover and

In this episode, I speak with Pernilla Myrne and Laury Silvers about the limits of historical sources, the methods historians employ to uncover the lives of the marginalized in society, and the role of the imaginative as a space for giving voice to the silenced. Sources cited in the episode: - Abdel-Latif, Sara. “Narrativizing Early Mystic and Sufi Women: Mechanisms of gendering in Sufi hagiographies,” Routledge Handbook of Sufism. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. - Jones-Rogers, Stephanie. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave-Owners in the American South. Yale University Press, 2019. - Mahmood, Saba. Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. - Nguyen, Martin. Sufi Master and Qur'an Scholar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Contributors: Pernilla Myrne is an Associate Professor of Arabic Literature and History at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She has published on the representation of women and women as creative agents in pre-modern Arabic literature, including the monograph Female Sexuality in the Early Medieval Islamic World (IB Tauris, 2020), history of emotions and slavery. Her current research explores the manuscript traditions and reception of medieval Arabic sex advice manuals, aiming at looking into attitudes to sexuality in the medieval Islamic world. Laury Silvers is a retired historian of early Sufism and the lives and practices of early pious and mystic women who writes historical mysteries set in the time and place of her research. Follow her on Twitter @waraqamusa and explore her website for the historical background of the novels and audio readings. The first two of her historical mysteries The Lover and The Jealous in the Sufi Mysteries quartet are available for purchase, with additional information on her website www.llsilvers.com.

The twins cover continue down rabbit holes with chatter about books, motorcycles, Sufi masters and Jascha Heifetz - and another original song from Chris' archive. SHOW NOTES: 0:00 - "Broken Angel" by Chris Yale 3:22 - Greetings and about the song - from the album, "Well Enough Alone" 4:05 - The Lord's Day, Lorde, John Lord, Jack Lord, Traci Lords (Rog is scared to put up a link for her - it might lead you into sites you don't want in your history.) 4:48 - Rog thinks his pop culture knowledge is good, but Chris said his rock knowledge was not so great. 5:35 - Jascha Heifetz was a master-violinist, not a Sufi Master. That would be Hafiz. 5:59 - Rumi versus Rummikub 7:30 - Parallels to Sherlock Holmes in "House" 8:59 - "Out of Print" 9:13 - Lee Daniels' "The Butler" 9:25 - More about books and the book industry / Burgess Meredith in "The Twilight Zone" / "Yentl" Strand Book Store / "The Booksellers" / Aldine Books Hollywood / Berkelouw Books Hollywood / Feedly / Pocket 13:43 - Roger's "value phone" and Chris' iPhone 6 Plus 15:52 - Studiologic Numa Compact 2 stage piano 16:00 - Top-shelf stuff and diminishing returns 17:16 - Our motorcycles and outings / 1988 Sportster / Suzuki GS450 / Honda Magna 750 / David Bacon / Not Valdez - Vasquez Rocks / Glenoaks Blvd. / Palermo Los Angeles / Glendale / Burbank / Boardner's  21:16 - Roger never got a motorcycle license / noise violation on the Sunset Strip / Chris' HOA doesn't allow motorcycles 23:37 - Roger got lost on the way to record at Sound Image in North Hollywood, on his bike, with our tape - while everyone waited / Sound Engineer Glen Matisoff 26:49 - "I souped up your video for ya'." / Richard Klotz / "City of Pain" video - Rogue Alley / The Central (Viper Room) 31:11 - Chris' apartment on Willoughby Avenue in Hollywood / Kevin Haggerty / Our Rasta-ish friend Dewon 33:30 - Underwhelmed by Super Bowl Sunday / Wasted on airplanes / Misconceptions and appearance 35:56 - "Earache My Eye" - Cheech & Chong 37:49 - Basso Profundo and "Big Bottom" from "This is Spinal Tap."

In this meditation you are guided by the inspiration of one of the world's greatest poets, Hafiz the great Sufi Master and mystic. This is a heart opening exercise. Let your heart dance with us.  www.EnlightenmentTV.com 

A translation from the work of Hafiz, a great Sufi Master

(English) Highlights Casual conversations revealed the bits and pieces of selflessness of Supreme Master. Her daily meals consist of brown rice, mung beans and sesame only, so She can dedicate all her time and energy for the well-being of sentient beings. Her life is the great example of a spiritual practitioner. Master also told disciples a story of a Sufi Master and his different types of disciples. Master pointed out that apart from the friendship or parental love we look for in a master, we should also ...

Joining us this episode is Sufi Master of Divinity, Mark Silver, as we share  this spirited discussion about bringing your heart to work. Mark's program- The Heart of Business teaches us to have  a heart-centered approach in our daily interactions. Find out how our human-to-human connection leads us to our best lives. On this episode of  The Light Inside --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thelightinside/message

For Ep 21 of #MikesMomentOf I catch up with my friend @trinitydevi : #GongMaster #Kundalini practitioner #AyurvedicPractitioner We discuss her journey to, and current practice with these traditions.  Bio Trinity Devi,  is a Gong Master,  Gong Avatar Trainer, Kundalini Yoga Teacher, Ayurvedic Practitioner and Vibrational Healer. She has been in the yogic path and healing practice for more than 15 years. Her profound affinity and dedication to the practice of Yoga, Meditation, Sacred Sound and the Gongs has led her to teach trainings for the Gong Avatar Academy in Miami, contributing to the growing community of conscious Gong players. Through her extensive background and devotion she brings wisdom, clarity and a powerful transformative energy  to her classes, workshops and personal sessions.   Certifications & Accomplishments: Trinity Devi is a NAMA Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner. Her personal yoga and meditation journey began in 2001 by experimenting with various styles and practices. She then concentrated her studies in Kundalini Yoga at Golden Bridge Yoga with Master Teachers Gurmukh, Tej, Harijiwan and Gurushabd, and is certified as a Kundalini Yoga Instructor through the Kundalini Research Institute. Also through Golden Bridge Yoga in Los Angeles, Trinity Devi – Ma Shakira  became certified as a Khalsa Way Prenatal Yoga Teacher.  After receiving her introduction to Gong Playing with Gong Master Harijiwan, Trinity Devi advanced into deeper layers of Self and Gong Mastery, Sound and Vibrational Healing with Master Gong Avatar Sotantar Suraj at the Gong Avatar Academy. Through her many years under the skillful guidance of her teacher Sotantar Suraj, she embarked into deep studies and explorations of Self and Gong Mastery, Sound and Vibrational Healing, Tantra, Self-remembrance and Mysticism. Trinity Devi leads Trainings for the Gong Avatar Academy in Miami, FL. She is a Reiki Master certified by the International Center for Reiki Training, and an Integrated Energy Therapy Advanced Practitioner certified by the Center of Being. She has also studied  Marma Therapy, Aromatherapy and Crystal healing. She is an Osho Sannyasin,  a lover and student of Evolutionary Astrology and an eternal student of Life.   A Trinity of Names Over the years of explorations, I have been fortunate to receive beautiful spiritual names. The power of the spiritual name is that it gives you an opportunity to start a new, and a powerful sound current to meditate upon and connect to the essence of who we are, beyond societal conditionings. Trinity Devi was given to me by my beloved teacher Master Gong Avatar, Sotantar Suraj. Trinity is the principle of absolute balance that pervades the world, seen and unseen. It is creativity, the result of the synergy between polarities. The constant principle of expansion and contraction through which a third energy is stabilized and  can then come to visible form. Devi the feminine aspect of the divine. Ma Shakira This is my Osho Sannyasin name which I received from Sufi Master and beloved teacher,  Videha. Ma is given to all women and represents the feminine, the mother, and the capacity to give birth to oneself Shakira is a Sufi name which means gratitude. The one who lives in eternal gratitude toward the divine Siri Deva Kaur  This name I received through the Kundalini Yoga path. Siri means great. Deva is a subtle, etheric, divine being. A being of elevated consciousness. Siri Deva: Great divine being who lives in a state of elevated consciouses, God Consciousness      website: www.trinitydevi.com IG: @trinitydevi FB: www.facebook.com/TrinityDevi Link for Transcendence CD on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/2XH4ALcgZLjHlfvV0OsJrY?si=Ik8bm8yCSb2hrSflnXfYLw

The nadis are channels that carry energy through our bodies. There are thousands, but we tend to focus on three: ida, pingala, and sushumna.Ida and pingala travel from the root chakra to the third eye, crisscrossing paths along the way. Sushumna is the central channel that travels up the middle.Where the three meet, you will find a chakra.I am beyond delighted to have Arabella Champaq back on the podcast to talk about the nadis and how they have helped support her and her practice.The nadis are an important part of our subtle energy body, but not talked about nearly as much as the chakra system.Arabella discusses what they do, how you can recognize which is activated, and some practical steps to take into your daily practice.Arabella Champaq was initiated by Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, a Sufi Master of the Chishti Order, in 1976. She studied with him for 25 years.Eventually, she began searching for a more integrated path, one that included all parts of her being. She longed for a spiritual path that addressed the disconnect between spirit and body, between God and Pleasure, between what we believe and how we live.She began an exploration of sacred sexuality, which led her to tantra. In tantra, she has discovered the perfect marriage of the sacred and the profane, of the inner and outer worlds, of the fact that she has both an innate desire for the transcendent state and experiences extended orgasms.She studies with Swami Ravi Rudra Bharati (a.k.a. Rudy Ballentine), a student of Swami Rama. She has taught meditation, led retreats, classes, and workshops since 1985.If you would like to find out more about Arabella, her work, and how you might be able to study with her, please visit https://tantragateway.weebly.com/.*****For more information about Adam Bee, sacred intimacy, and Tantra, please visit https://adambee.com

Shaykha Fariha al-Jerrahi reads the chapter from Shaykh Nur's Atom from the Sun of Knowledge (Lex Hixon)

Shaykha Fariha al-Jerrahi reads the chapter from Shaykh Nur's Atom from the Sun of Knowledge (Lex Hixon) The post Countenance and Heart of the Shaykh: Portrait of a Sufi Master appeared first on The Sufi Lodge.

Opening with two quotes one from Sufi Master and contemporary spiritual leader, the indissoluble link between what we call heaven and earth is brought out. The first quote is from Ibn al-'Arabi, was an Arab Andalusian Muslim scholar, mystic, poet, and philosopher, whose works have grown to be very influential beyond the Muslim world. His cosmological teachings became the dominant worldview in many parts of the Islamic world and the second quote is from Pope Francis. Please listen, reflect deeply and share.

In the book Kali Rising, Swami Ravi Rudra Bharati (formerly Rudolph Ballentine), outlines seven principles of tantra. These principles are not written down in some ancient text, rather they are teachings that he has used in his life, as a student of tantra with Swami Rama, and as a teacher to many.In this episode, Arabella Champaq introduces the first principle, everything is an experiment.In 1976, Arabella was initiated by Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, a Sufi Master of the Chishti Order, and studied with him for 25 years.Eventually, she began searching for a more integrated path, one that included all parts of her being. She longed for a spiritual path that addressed the disconnect between spirit and body, between God and Pleasure, between what we believe and how we live.She began an exploration of sacred sexuality, which led her to tantra. In tantra, she has discovered the perfect marriage of the sacred and the profane, of the inner and outer worlds, of the fact that she has both an innate desire for the transcendent state and experiences extended orgasms.She studies with Swami Ravi Rudra Bharati (a.k.a. Rudy Ballentine), a student of Swami Rama. She has taught meditation, and led retreats, classes and workshops since 1985.If you would like to find out more about Arabella, her work, and how you might be able to study with her, please visit https://tantragateway.weebly.com/.

In the book Kali Rising, Swami Ravi Rudra Bharati (formerly Rudolph Ballentine), outlines seven principles of tantra. These principles are not written down in some ancient text, rather they are teachings that he has used in his life, as a student of tantra with Swami Rama, and as a teacher to many.In this podcast series, I have invited several of my own tantra teachers to explain one of the principles. All of these teachers have studied with Swami Ravi and bring forward their own unique experiences and learnings from the principles.In this episode, Arabella Champaq introduces the principles to us and explains why we have them and what they can do for us.In 1976, Arabella was initiated by Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, a Sufi Master of the Chishti Order, and studied with him for 25 years.Eventually, she began searching for a more integrated path, one that included all parts of her being. She longed for a spiritual path that addressed the disconnect between spirit and body, between God and Pleasure, between what we believe and how we live.She began an exploration of sacred sexuality, which led her to tantra. In tantra, she has discovered the perfect marriage of the sacred and the profane, of the inner and outer worlds, of the fact that she has both an innate desire for the transcendent state and experiences extended orgasms.She studies with Swami Ravi Rudra Bharati (a.k.a. Rudy Ballentine), a student of Swami Rama. She has taught meditation, led retreats, classes, and workshops since 1985.If you would like to find out more about Arabella, her work, and how you might be able to study with her, please visit https://tantragateway.weebly.com/.

The best-selling poet in the United States is the 13th century Islamic mystic, Jalal al-Din al-Rumi, who taught a path of devotion to God leading to merging of one's self with God.  Centuries later, he has become an inspiration to seekers from all religions, from Zen Buddhists to New Age spiritualists.  But do the modern interpretations of his verses that adorn bumper sticker and coffee mugs reflect the true nature of his teachings?

I got pretty special permission to use the content from a book of poetry called The Gift Poems by Hafiz. Hafiz is a Sufi Master from around 1320-1398 who is thought to have written about 5000 poems! This work has been translated by Daniel Ladinsky and this episode is the first time I’ll read one […]

What is God?  How do we find him/her?  What is Sufism?  How does the West compare to the East?  What are the challenges and opportunities in life?  What are Adnan's methods, what is time and much more.. Join me as we learn from 88 year old, Sufi Master and Founder of the Sufi Foundation of America.Discover more about Adnan Sarhan and Sufi Camp in New Mexico at http://sufifoundation.orgLearn about Hazrat Inayat Khan by searching ‘Bowl of Saki' - visiting http://wahiduddin.net or going to https://www.facebook.com/bowl.of.saki/If you enjoyed this content, please give it a like, leave a comment, subscribe for more and share the video - it really means a lot to see your support coming in :)Smarter Impact is hosted by http://linkedin.com/in/philipbateman and produced by http://bravocharlie.globalBravo Charlie specialise in targeted video communication for impact investors and their portfolios, using marketing, business development, investing and production skills to engage stakeholders and amplify returns.At the apex of social change, we exist as the possibility of world leaders in business, politics and society being engaging, powerful communicators, and work to accelerate the transition of our world into a more environmentally aware, sustainable and loving place.Our best work is done with companies at a tipping point, with strong offerings, ready to launch into the next stage of their greatness.  The outcomes of our effort are a more harmonious society, empowering people with the resources and capabilities to lead good lives.We specialise in:- Documenting your Impact Measurement and Management- Making complex businesses and technologies simple to understand- Coaching senior executives to deliver at their best on camera- Creating compelling pitches and content, to support Seed/series funding and IPOs- Crafting digital marketing systems, engagement and growth strategies- Capturing the passion of your team and clientsSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/SmarterImpact)

Meet Jamal Rahman. He is a Sufi Master, author and inspiring, kind speaker and human being. Learn how the theme for this month relates to Suffism.Do you need permission to say 'no?' Do you know what to do without asking permission? Permission is the theme for this month, this New Year.How do Permission and Kindness interact? What does kindness + permission look like in your life? All this month, I will share stories, ideas and your comments. ARKism= a kind approach to life that stands for Acts of Random Kindness. It is your best tool to UNcover your Greatness made of 3 aspects of you that are already in you... right now, waiting to be UNcovered: kindness, happiness w/in and wisdom.UNcover your Greatness, access your kindness, give yourself permission to be Great, Kind, Happy and Wise!Dr. Arlette. I am your INNER Life Coach. I train your everyday thoughts to UNcover your Greatness, every day.Join me. Join me and my fellow ARKists. Give yourself permission to be Great!

Mark Silver is an entrepreneur, business coach, Sufi Master, and has a great sense of humour - such a great combination! He helps his clients "witness the love that's present in business that's hard to see." In this episode we touch on pretty much everything - Judaism, spiritual disconnect with parents, agnosticism, mystical experiences, Islam, Sufism, the Reclaiming tradition, Wicca, neo-paganism, Jewish Renewal...my goodness, it's a good one, folks. Find out more about Mark, the Heart of Business and his programs here. He also has a great list of resources about Sufism on his site, too.

The famous Abu’l-Qasim al-Qushayri (d. 465/1072) is well known as one of the most influential figures in the formative period of Sufism. He was part of a network of prominent Sufis in Nishapur that were shaping the competing forms of spirituality during the eleventh century. Due to this noteworthy role in Sufism al-Qushayri’s work has rarely been examined within the contexts of the concurrent and intimately connected traditions with which he was also engaged. Martin Nguyen, Assistant Professor in the Religious Studies Department at Fairfield University and founder of the great site Islamicana, has meticulously reconstructed the nexus of al-Qushayri’s intellectual field through a close examination of his Qur’an commentary, Lata’if al-isharat (Subtleties of the Signs). In Sufi Master and Qur’an Scholar: Abu’l-Qasim al-Qushayri and the Lata’if al-isharat (Oxford University Press, 2012), part of the Oxford Qur’an series in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, Nguyen draws al-Qushayri’s legal training in the Shafi’i madhhab and his theological positioning the Ash’ari school to the surface. He also demonstrates that al-Qushayri had a continuing exegetical corpus and was long committed to Qur’anic commentary. As the final iteration of his tafsir, the Lata’if points to al-Qushayri’s alignment with a Nishapuri collective of exegetical hermeneutics. Some of the various issues Nguyen’s close reading explores include muhkam and mutashabih (clear and ambiguous) Qur’an verses, naskh (abrogation), the ascension narrative (Q. 53.1-18) comparing al-Qushayri’s Kitab al-Mi’raj and the Lata’if, the disconnected letters in the Qur’an (al-huruf al-muqatta’a), the narrative of Job, anthropomorphism, and the Master and aspirant (Shaykh and murid) relationship. In our conversation we also discussed the notion of tradition, exploring archives and manuscripts, composition and audience, attribution, exoteric versus esoteric commentaries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The famous Abu’l-Qasim al-Qushayri (d. 465/1072) is well known as one of the most influential figures in the formative period of Sufism. He was part of a network of prominent Sufis in Nishapur that were shaping the competing forms of spirituality during the eleventh century. Due to this noteworthy role in Sufism al-Qushayri’s work has rarely been examined within the contexts of the concurrent and intimately connected traditions with which he was also engaged. Martin Nguyen, Assistant Professor in the Religious Studies Department at Fairfield University and founder of the great site Islamicana, has meticulously reconstructed the nexus of al-Qushayri’s intellectual field through a close examination of his Qur’an commentary, Lata’if al-isharat (Subtleties of the Signs). In Sufi Master and Qur’an Scholar: Abu’l-Qasim al-Qushayri and the Lata’if al-isharat (Oxford University Press, 2012), part of the Oxford Qur’an series in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, Nguyen draws al-Qushayri’s legal training in the Shafi’i madhhab and his theological positioning the Ash’ari school to the surface. He also demonstrates that al-Qushayri had a continuing exegetical corpus and was long committed to Qur’anic commentary. As the final iteration of his tafsir, the Lata’if points to al-Qushayri’s alignment with a Nishapuri collective of exegetical hermeneutics. Some of the various issues Nguyen’s close reading explores include muhkam and mutashabih (clear and ambiguous) Qur’an verses, naskh (abrogation), the ascension narrative (Q. 53.1-18) comparing al-Qushayri’s Kitab al-Mi’raj and the Lata’if, the disconnected letters in the Qur’an (al-huruf al-muqatta’a), the narrative of Job, anthropomorphism, and the Master and aspirant (Shaykh and murid) relationship. In our conversation we also discussed the notion of tradition, exploring archives and manuscripts, composition and audience, attribution, exoteric versus esoteric commentaries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The famous Abu’l-Qasim al-Qushayri (d. 465/1072) is well known as one of the most influential figures in the formative period of Sufism. He was part of a network of prominent Sufis in Nishapur that were shaping the competing forms of spirituality during the eleventh century. Due to this noteworthy role in Sufism al-Qushayri’s work has rarely been examined within the contexts of the concurrent and intimately connected traditions with which he was also engaged. Martin Nguyen, Assistant Professor in the Religious Studies Department at Fairfield University and founder of the great site Islamicana, has meticulously reconstructed the nexus of al-Qushayri’s intellectual field through a close examination of his Qur’an commentary, Lata’if al-isharat (Subtleties of the Signs). In Sufi Master and Qur’an Scholar: Abu’l-Qasim al-Qushayri and the Lata’if al-isharat (Oxford University Press, 2012), part of the Oxford Qur’an series in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, Nguyen draws al-Qushayri’s legal training in the Shafi’i madhhab and his theological positioning the Ash’ari school to the surface. He also demonstrates that al-Qushayri had a continuing exegetical corpus and was long committed to Qur’anic commentary. As the final iteration of his tafsir, the Lata’if points to al-Qushayri’s alignment with a Nishapuri collective of exegetical hermeneutics. Some of the various issues Nguyen’s close reading explores include muhkam and mutashabih (clear and ambiguous) Qur’an verses, naskh (abrogation), the ascension narrative (Q. 53.1-18) comparing al-Qushayri’s Kitab al-Mi’raj and the Lata’if, the disconnected letters in the Qur’an (al-huruf al-muqatta’a), the narrative of Job, anthropomorphism, and the Master and aspirant (Shaykh and murid) relationship. In our conversation we also discussed the notion of tradition, exploring archives and manuscripts, composition and audience, attribution, exoteric versus esoteric commentaries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The famous Abu’l-Qasim al-Qushayri (d. 465/1072) is well known as one of the most influential figures in the formative period of Sufism. He was part of a network of prominent Sufis in Nishapur that were shaping the competing forms of spirituality during the eleventh century. Due to this noteworthy role in Sufism al-Qushayri’s work has rarely been examined within the contexts of the concurrent and intimately connected traditions with which he was also engaged. Martin Nguyen, Assistant Professor in the Religious Studies Department at Fairfield University and founder of the great site Islamicana, has meticulously reconstructed the nexus of al-Qushayri’s intellectual field through a close examination of his Qur’an commentary, Lata’if al-isharat (Subtleties of the Signs). In Sufi Master and Qur’an Scholar: Abu’l-Qasim al-Qushayri and the Lata’if al-isharat (Oxford University Press, 2012), part of the Oxford Qur’an series in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, Nguyen draws al-Qushayri’s legal training in the Shafi’i madhhab and his theological positioning the Ash’ari school to the surface. He also demonstrates that al-Qushayri had a continuing exegetical corpus and was long committed to Qur’anic commentary. As the final iteration of his tafsir, the Lata’if points to al-Qushayri’s alignment with a Nishapuri collective of exegetical hermeneutics. Some of the various issues Nguyen’s close reading explores include muhkam and mutashabih (clear and ambiguous) Qur’an verses, naskh (abrogation), the ascension narrative (Q. 53.1-18) comparing al-Qushayri’s Kitab al-Mi’raj and the Lata’if, the disconnected letters in the Qur’an (al-huruf al-muqatta’a), the narrative of Job, anthropomorphism, and the Master and aspirant (Shaykh and murid) relationship. In our conversation we also discussed the notion of tradition, exploring archives and manuscripts, composition and audience, attribution, exoteric versus esoteric commentaries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shaykha Fariha al-Jerrahi reads the chapter from Shaykh Nur's Atom from the Sun of Knowledge (Lex Hixon) The post Countenance and Heart of the Shaykh: Portrait of a Sufi Master appeared first on The Sufi Lodge.

Ustādh Mahmūd Ghafīr and band sing 'Qutb al-Aqtāb', a poem dedicated to the great Sufi Master, Imām Abul Hasan al-Shādhilī. The poem was composed by 'Allāmah Shaykh Muhammad al-Ya'qūbī during his journey to Imam Abul Hasan's shrine in Egypt in August 2004. Text of poem in Arabic with English translation can be downloaded here: www.sacredknowledge.co.uk/downloads/Poem%20to%20Imam%20Abul%20Hasan%20(Arabic%20and%20English).pdf www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8qmnTWPZf4

Dancer and Sufi teacher Dunya Dianne McPherson’s new memoir–Skin of Glass: Finding Spirit in the Flesh–tells of her exploration of the multisensory intelligence and wisdom of her body. In our interview, she retraces the path that led her to her embodied spiritual practice and reads from her extraordinary book. BIO Dunya Dianne McPherson is an acclaimed dancer and choreographer, writer, filmmaker, and Master Teacher. As founder and Principal Teacher of the healing movement practice, Dancemeditation, she specializes in techniques that open the wonderment of deep, subtle, peaceful self-perception. She received her BFA in dance from Juilliard and her MA in Writing from Lesley University. She was an Artist Scholar at Columbia University. With the completion of 1,001 days of Sufi training, she was given teaching permission by Sufi Master, Adnan Sarhan (Sufi Foundation of America). Her numerous teaching credits include: Barnard College, Montclair State College, Mark Morris Dance Center, Hunter College, Oberlin College, Swarthmore College, New York Open Center and Kripalu Center. Awards include: National Endowment for the Arts Choreography Fellowship, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Choreography Commission, TX & MA Arts Council grants. She is featured in the film ‘Dances of Ecstasy.’ Dunya lives in New York City. UPCOMING EVENT Sunday, April 6 (3pm): “Skin of Glass” book launch, featuring performance by Alembic, saxophonist Premik Tubbs and Ensemble, film and photographs, reading, tea and book signing. Location: Metropolitan Building, 11-04 44th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens. RSVP: info@dancemeditationbooks.com LINK Dunya’s Dancemeditation blog http://blog.dancemeditation.org/ Dervish Society of America http://dancemeditation.org/ "Skin of Glass" http://www.dancemeditationbooks.com/skinofglass/ Body and Soul is the official podcast of InfiniteBody dance blog at http://infinitebody.blogspot.com. Subscribe through iTunes or at http://magickaleva.hipcast.com/rss/bodyandsoul.xml. (c)2008, Eva Yaa Asantewaa This material may not be reproduced in any way, either in part or in its entirety, without the expressed written permission of Eva Yaa Asantewaa.

Dancer and Sufi teacher Dunya Dianne McPherson’s new memoir–Skin of Glass: Finding Spirit in the Flesh–tells of her exploration of the multisensory intelligence and wisdom of her body. In our interview, she retraces the path that led her to her embodied spiritual practice and reads from her extraordinary book. BIO Dunya Dianne McPherson is an acclaimed dancer and choreographer, writer, filmmaker, and Master Teacher. As founder and Principal Teacher of the healing movement practice, Dancemeditation, she specializes in techniques that open the wonderment of deep, subtle, peaceful self-perception. She received her BFA in dance from Juilliard and her MA in Writing from Lesley University. She was an Artist Scholar at Columbia University. With the completion of 1,001 days of Sufi training, she was given teaching permission by Sufi Master, Adnan Sarhan (Sufi Foundation of America). Her numerous teaching credits include: Barnard College, Montclair State College, Mark Morris Dance Center, Hunter College, Oberlin College, Swarthmore College, New York Open Center and Kripalu Center. Awards include: National Endowment for the Arts Choreography Fellowship, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Choreography Commission, TX & MA Arts Council grants. She is featured in the film ‘Dances of Ecstasy.’ Dunya lives in New York City. UPCOMING EVENT Sunday, April 6 (3pm): “Skin of Glass” book launch, featuring performance by Alembic, saxophonist Premik Tubbs and Ensemble, film and photographs, reading, tea and book signing. Location: Metropolitan Building, 11-04 44th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens. RSVP: info@dancemeditationbooks.com LINK Dunya’s Dancemeditation blog http://blog.dancemeditation.org/ Dervish Society of America http://dancemeditation.org/ "Skin of Glass" http://www.dancemeditationbooks.com/skinofglass/ Body and Soul is the official podcast of InfiniteBody dance blog at http://infinitebody.blogspot.com. Subscribe through iTunes or at http://magickaleva.hipcast.com/rss/bodyandsoul.xml. (c)2008, Eva Yaa Asantewaa This material may not be reproduced in any way, either in part or in its entirety, without the expressed written permission of Eva Yaa Asantewaa.