Excerpts from RUMI & HIS FRIENDS Stories of the Lovers of God
My father [Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi] said, “O Bahauddin, when the seed of my teaching has taken root in your heart, you will understand—reflect deeply on my teaching and really try to absorb it and if you do, felicity will be yours. Know that the body of the prophets, the saints, and their friends will never perish. A seed thrown into the earth may appear to die and disappear, however, at the end of a few days it comes to life and grows into a flourishing tree. In a similar way the body of the prophets and the saints will also come to life again.”
Rumi beyond Culture
From the very beginning of my own training I was led to ask the question: If Mevlana were alive today, would he teach in the same way that he taught in Konya in the 13th century? So many aspects of his teaching and thought seem strikingly contemporary and this is not merely the result of translations that try to make him appear contemporary. His transcendence of his immediate culture is intrinsic to his message.
How To Be Rumi Without A Cultural Identity
Academy of Self Knowledge 2013 Annual Conference, held in March of 2013 at the Rasooli Center in Pretoria, South Africa - Shaikh Kabir Helminski talks on how to be Rumi without a cultural identity.
Fearless Tenderness
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Fearless Tenderness - Huddersfield Circle, Tue 26th Feb, 2013
Sohbet held in the Huddersfield circle, reading is taken from chapter 26 of Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness & the Essential Self.
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The States of the Soul
The States of the Soul - London Circle, Thu 28th Feb, 2013 See also the follow-up Q&A session
The States of the Soul – Q&A
The States of the Soul cont - Q&A, London Circle, Thu 28th Feb, 2013 Follow-up to previous sohbet
Conversations with a Saint – Mawlana Asad Ali
Conversations with a Saint - Mawlana Asad Ali London gathering, Sat 2nd Mar, 2013 View the transcript of the conversation
Conversation with Mawlana Asad Ali (Damascus)
The most beloved of people to Allah are those who are most beneficial to His servants. And I see no better benefit for His servants in our times than the goodly word that reminds the human being of his humanness and reminds everyone of their brotherhood in the abode of Adam. This is the message from the East, from the summertime in the winter of Damascus, so what do you have for us?
Kabir on Being Human
Kabir has been invited to write for Speaking Tree, The Times of India (over 4 million downloads/month). What is it to be truly human? Just to hold this question is the beginning of transformation. When I first began to ask this question, I assembled a list of attributes that seemed essential: a certain capacity for [...]