Notes for a Talk Given to a Gathering of The Nahdatul Ulama in West Java, May 2017
Shaikh Kabir's recent talk in Indonesia on the state of Islam and the Muslim world.
The Soul that Moves the Body of the World
A Talk by Shaikh Kabir Helminski at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., October 8th, 2016
On Divine Will, Human Will, and the Balance of Contemplation and Activism
Q: Sometimes I get confused between the conflict of ‘what will be will be,’ in light of the heedlessness of empires rising and falling, versus the concept of human collective consciousness to make a difference. I struggle between the concept of our free will, and igniting that with the right intention, while at the same time accepting that no matter how ever much it is lit with the right intention, even on a collective basis, ‘what will be will be.’