Musa

  The central questions that we are involved with in Sufism, and that we are involved in with our shaikh, are common to all civilizations, and to all countries. There are stories in Hinduism, in Hasidism, and in Sufism, of men who get to the point where they ask the questions, “Why am I here?

  In this world, we categorize things, and we give things names. There is the animal kingdom, then there are the different species within the animal kingdom, and they all have different names. There is the kingdom that lives in the ocean, and the fish all have different names. Then there is the world of

  Within religions and spiritual paths there are many ways that people are instructed to come closer to their Lord, and to serve their Lord. There is the path of religious ritual, and people can take up as much time as they like, or can afford to give up for religious ritual. There is the

  Different people approach this world in different ways. From these talks over the years we have all realized that consciousness is on a sliding scale. It is like the board game Chutes and Ladders. We can go up and we can fall down, we go up and we fall down. Just because we are