This Virtual Sufi Lodge is a Place for Spiritual Companionship (Sohbet)
October 13, 2012. Introducing a new format for our group meetings where we read and reflect upon a selection from Rumi's Mathnawi.
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The retreat recordings are available below. We suggest a donation of $25 by clicking the "Buy Now" button. Your contribution will help us to continue to offer our work. Saturday September 8th, 2012 Session 1: Morning introduction with Kabir Dede
Saturday September 8th, 2012 Session 2: Continuing the morning session with Kabir Dede
Saturday September 8th, 2012 Session 3: Dr. Ali Allawi speaks about his new work on Shaikh Abdullah al Ansari's The Stations of the Wayfarer
Saturday September 8th, 2012 Session 4: 'Ashk Bezirgani' illahi with Zeliha and reflections on Mevlana's Mathnawi selections from Book 6
From a retreat with the Threshold Society.
In November, after the sale of Casa Paloma where they have lived for 8 years, Camille and Kabir will be moving to Louisville, Kentucky.
They have been warmly and generously invited by a community of people interested in establishing a Mevlevi Tekkye there. This was the first discussion of the move within the local California circle.
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There are intimate relationships among words, sound, meaning, breath and the Divine. True words have an enduring power; false words have no power in the long run. The Word of God as reflected in holy and inspired texts is something very powerful, creative and energetic. It is not merely a conceptual formulation and opinion, but rather something from the Creative Source of existence itself. The Word or The Name helps us to fix our consciousness on Reality, renewing our contact with the Inward Center, stabilizing our communion with Spirit. To have such a tool that fixes our consciousness on Reality is no small thing.
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Having been invited to speak about “World Peace and Harmony,” I ask myself: What is the cause and nature of conflict in today's world? Does religion contribute to conflict as so many people assert? And can the idealistic calls for world peace by religious leaders produce any real effect? How can I speak anything more than truisms, sentimental clichés, and ideas we’ve all heard before? Can the teachings of the world’s great mystics effect any real change on the societal level or are these teachings meant only for personal transformation?
Robert Abdul Hayy Darr speaks on how appearances and the nurturing of appearances often carry the day. He opens with a Mullah Nasreddin story and explores deeply why it is that we are constantly feeding the various and differing personas that we have learned to take on not only as vestments, but also to inhabit so completely that we may not remember who we really are. His hope is that we may inhabit that sacred level of body and heart that makes us fly on the Buraq of love into the Heaven of Divine Love, that it take us on high to the heavens and guide us to our original self.
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