This is a recording of a ‘conference’ phone conversation between members of the Threshold community in the USA on the occasion of 17 December, the anniversary of Mevlana’s death, known as the ‘Urs’.
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A way of looking at spirituality and the nafs is to imagine you were locked in a room with someone who never stops talking. This person is you, or rather your nafs. Its chatter is based on fear or desire. We need to find a way out of this room, to enter the rest of the mansion and beyond.
There is a whole state of being that is not tied to this talking. The work of spiritual transformation begins by developing the ability to leave the room, to ‘move into spaciousness’, outside of our self-concepts and expectations, and listen to a different music, the silence in which words arise, in which the meanings of Revelation can be heard, and in which we experience a relationship with the Divine.
Destiny loves effort; if we are destined for something the effort will be there.
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Recording of weekly sohbet with Shaikh Kabir and Camille Helminski.
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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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Recording of weekly sohbet with Shaikh Kabir and Camille Helminski.
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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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Recording of weekly sohbet with Shaikh Kabir and Camille Helminski.
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Recording of weekly sohbet with Shaikh Kabir and Camille Helminski.
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Recording of weekly sohbet with Shaikh Kabir and Camille Helminski.
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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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