Audio Talks

  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

  Religion has been around for a long time. Religion has been used in different ways in different civilizations at different times. Often, religion becomes a method for a government to control people, for the government to keep people in line. Religious beliefs were originally brought through the 124,000 prophets that God sent into this

  If we are looking for books these days we are probably not going to a bookstore, we are going to Amazon. If we are looking for books on metaphysics, or Sufism, or Hinduism, or Buddhism, or Christianity, or Judaism, we will find, literally, thousands upon thousands of books that are trying to explain religion

  The scientific world has begun to enter into the metaphysical world, and has been giving explanations based on scientific inquiry with all of the modern technology that is now available to measure things. There has also been a cross between the metaphysical and the religious. The metaphysical is less interested in specific religions as

  I read a book many years ago by a woman whose name is Annamarie Schimmel, she is a great Islamic scholar who taught at Harvard. It was a book about Sufism, and there was a line in the book that was from around the 12th century that was, “Sufism used to be a way

  If you have ever seen babies and I’m sure you have, when they are in their early two’s, they often throw tantrums. These tantrums come about because they cannot resolve situations internally, and they do not know exactly how else to express themselves. As adults we also carry strong emotions at times. If we