Kabir Helminski, Author at The Threshold Society

Balance in Doing, Being, & Loving

A podcast exploring among other things the necessity of balance between doing, being and loving on the path. Doing - human expression as a physical manifestation of the heart. Being - Inner life resulting in sustained and deepened presence, the bedrock of all. Love - the quality that polishes the heart that it might guide the soul in it's Doing. Also included are some wonderful words from Shams-i-Tabriz and some recently translated quatrains from Kabir.

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An Appropriate Response

Recording of weekly sohbet with Shaikh Kabir and Camille Helminski.

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Authentic Longing

This rich podcast explores the hindrances and opportunities that desire manifests on the path. Beginning with a reading that warns us how desire can weaken our integrity, hindering the search for self knowledge so the ego becomes the object of longing.

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The Names of God

Recording of weekly sohbet with Shaikh Kabir and Camille Helminski.

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Silence, Presence and Prayer

Recording of weekly sohbet with Shaikh Kabir and Camille Helminski.

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Patience

Recording of weekly sohbet with Shaikh Kabir and Camille Helminski.

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Lovers Burn

The Rumi poem entitled “Lover's Burn” builds from the story of Moses and the Shepherd. It allows discussion of a number of themes related to reconciliation and the Sufi schema for working through the process of spiritual education and maturation.

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By The Starry Tracks

Three Rumi poems provide beautiful, but stringent observations and advice about the destructiveness of our egoism and what it will take to transform it. Mevlana’s “roasting” of us is done beautifully, gently, and gives us great hope.

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Desires for Accumulation – Surah Takathur

Takathur refers to accumulation/pursuit of material and sensual things, including boasting about status, possessions, credentials, ancestors and lineage.

Surah Takathur and Surah Kawthar have the same root and are related to the Arabic word, kathira (many). Many-ness can be a blessing when you see the oneness behind the many-ness. But there is great suffering when you only see the many-ness and it's tearing you apart in a thousand different directions, depending on the moment and the circumstance.

Surah Takathur tells about knowing naeem (true happiness) and the yaquin (certainty) with which we discern what is naeem. Surah Takathur confirms that the Quran guides us to an open-minded spiritual perception that is the source of our happiness.

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Ploys of the Nafs

The ego or nafs is not enthusiastic about transformation because it serves as a defense and survival mechanism. The nafs may have strange ideas about what is needed for your survival and devise clever strategies to defend the false self at any cost.