We are born into an illusory world and from the moment of our conception we have to learn how to deal with this illusory world. We have to learn how to make our way through it. And even though this world is illusory, we get from it things that are vital to this existence within the […]
In this world where we interact with maya, illusion, on a regular basis, happiness and sadness are two sides of a similar coin, the same coin. We react towards certain things with happiness, certain things make us sad. Most of these are robotic reactions to situations that we have been programmed to believe are good
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Complacency is a great danger to the believer. When you are in a certain situation and you’ve been in that situation for a long time, you begin to think that you own that situation, that you deserve that situation, and that that situation belongs to you, and you become complacent as to that. The fact
In the Arabic language many of the names that men and/or women have are based on the names of God. They’re based on the ninety-nine names that God has that are recited in a little book called the asma’ ul-husna which usually states those names and then defines them. And one of the things that
In this world there is an outside and there is an inside. There is illusion on the outside and there is illusion on the inside. In a tiny dot inside of ourselves, if we’re fortunate enough and pure enough and determined enough to find it, there is reality and there is truth. We are born
There are many different ways to explain the duality in our existence, the two-sided nature that exists within man. Some explain it by way of the “nafs”. They explain the nafs as the lower half and the unified self as the higher half, or the higher self. Some talk about the part of us that
At the ends of the these meetings we usually do a short zikr, sometimes pronounced zikr, sometimes pronounced dhikr (thikr) depending on how you pronounce it. People have asked me “What’s the point of doing this? Why do people do dhikr? Why do people do zikr? Why is it one of the main performance rituals
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We exist in the midst of many different worlds. The world that we walk through every day and that we, for lack of a better, term say we live in the midst of, is this world of form. We see it, we touch it, we encounter it constantly. Within this world of form there are
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The world right now is in a tumultuous state. Things are going on everywhere. Eruptions are going on everywhere. It appears that things are out of control and in chaos. The headlines every day talk about another tragedy that’s going on in some part of the world; another battle that’s going on in some part
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Recently we’ve been talking about ritual, and the shell of ritual, and how you need to fill that shell that is ritual with consciousness, and with wisdom. Because, if you merely go through the performance of ritual without consciousness and without wisdom, the experience is not what the experience is supposed to be, and the
