Be Humble in Love; Be Bold in Loving
Hz. Abul Hasan Kharaqani, Kars Sooner or later those who travel the path of God will encounter a series of questions related to the very existence of the "self." What began as a [...]
Unfold the Wings of your Essence
In the State of True Friendship: Shams & Mevlana A recent sohbet with Shaikh Kabir & Camille Ana Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem Kabir Dede: This is the day that Hazreti Shams first came to Konya. In [...]
Endeavor to Make God Your Companion in Every Spiritual State
A transcribed sohbet of Shaikh Kabir, from the forthcoming book The Living Tradition, Discourses on the Sufi Path The Qur’an says: In His causes you ought to strive. The Arabic word jihada could be translated [...]
The Spiritual Challenge of Artificial Intelligence, Trans-Humanism, and the Post-Human World
This talk by Shaikh Kabir created quite a stir at the Science and Non-Duality Conference, The Mystery of Being Human, Oct 26th 2018. What compels me to speak about the challenge of [...]
Eighteen Stages of Service
Eighteen Stages of Service[1] The soul of the Mevlevi Dergah (training center) is the kitchen (matbah). In the kitchen, the Head Cook Dede (Ashchi Dede; Ser-tabbah),[2] the Cauldron Dede (Kazanci Dede), the Internal Affairs Dervish, [...]
The Coherence of Our Souls
~ Shaikh Kabir Helminski The Essence of Our Practice We place a great emphasis on being—the quality of attention and presence that we practice. Being is our capacity to be awake with full attention and [...]
Seven Paths of Spiritual Practice
Shaikh Kabir presents the seven different paths of spiritual practice and remembrance
Listening
A talk offered by Camille for the launch, “Listen! Feminine Wisdom,” 2018 Festival of Faiths.
Ninety-Names of the Beloved: Introduction
Ninety-Nine Names of the Beloved: Introduction by Michael Wolfe
Feminine Symbols in Islam
Reflections on the Divine Feminine in Islam and its symoblism, by Mahmoud Mostafa.
Give God Your Existence
Give God your existence and God will give you His Life. Today is September 30, Mevlana’s birthday and the 10th day of Muharram, remembered primarily for the martyrdom of Imam Hussein. On this day we [...]
Presence, Sincerity, & Spiritual Practice
Today time moves fast and our humanness is under assault in many ways. The distractions of consumer society and pop culture, the compression of time, the advance of technological powers, the intensity of life requires nothing less than the development of true spiritual practice and remembrance.