Sufi ideals can help us and they can hinder. There are many beautiful Sufi practices blooming in in our Western world right now: practices of harmony and beauty, Dances of Universal Peace, breath practices, practices with Wazifas. Many of these things are very beautiful and they can help bring us in to harmony. When we’re …
The Unity of Ideals and Lilacs
Published: Sat, 06/03/23
This week we are exploring all the ways that we are not separate... which is all ways. Every single thing is not separate from the hugeness of everything. As human beings we have the ability to see that vision and to lose it. When it's lost, bringing it back seems tricky. It comes back through a balance of intellect and prayer, yin and yang, the mystical and the simple. Let's explore that together.
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Dance: Veni Spiritus Maranatha
Meaning and Explanation. Our words are Veni Spiritus Maranatha. This is a combination of Latin and Aramaic. Veni Spiritus means “come spirit.” Maranatha is an Aramiac word that is sometimes translated as “Come Lord Jesus. More correctly in Aramaic it is “The Lord Has Come.” Aramiac was the language that Jesus spoke. Greek was the …
Point Towards Beauty
Our consciousness is as easily captured by beauty as it is by disaster and despair. We can point ourselves towards it. Next — Thoughts are not separate from unity
Thoughts are not separate from unity
If we know that nothing can be separate from unity, and thoughts definitely happen, then thoughts are not separate from unity. You might believe that thoughts are bad. Thoughts aren’t me, thoughts are illusion, thoughts are this, and thoughts are that. But we know from experience that thoughts definitely happen. Right? Something is happening there. …
Lilacs only grow from the cold
Lilacs can only grow where it gets cold in the winter. They’re a good lesson that out of struggle can come beauty. Next — Nothing exists separate from unity
Nothing exists separate from unity
Nothing exists separate from Unity. The obviousness of that statement is mind-blowing… if you stop and look at it just for a second. Unity means everything all together. So everything is there together. Nothing can be separate from that because everything is already in it. Nothing exists separate from Unity. Another way I’ve heard that …
Evolution of Consciousness is Real
The evolution of human consciousness has real components to it. We’re not trying to evolve some kind of gaseous Consciousness that’s floating around in the universe. There are real components to it that we can see and measure. The Scientific thought process is a good example of the evolution of knowledge. We never have an …
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Zen Stories & Mulla Nasrudine
Zen helps us explore ourselves with stories. The human mind operates on stories. We are all crazy because we have been given ridiculous stories since birth. So, one of the best ways to wake up is to rewrite the story.
June 22 - 25, 2023
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