The journey of each talk covers many topics and weaves a tapestry of interwoven ideas, concepts, and explanations to reflect on, and inspire us to become more. Each talk is approximately 30 minutes long.
We are constantly in the presence of illusion. It surrounds our external being. Everywhere we look, everything we see is part of illusion. We live in a world that is illusion and we must make our way through this world of illusion, and we have to figure out a way for ourselves to be able […]
#231 Give Up Your Arrogance and Illusion Will Leave Read More »
If you read reviews of movies one of the things that you might read is, “That was a totally immersive experience. You walked into the movie and you were taken over, and you became part of what was going on on the screen. You would lose yourself in the movie.” Well, one of the things
People come and ask me, every once in a while, why they get angry, why they have difficulty with other people, why they seem to have a more difficult way than anybody else has, why things have been made harder for them than other people. And something we all have to realize; this world is
There’s a story about the Tower of Babel where a large group of people in a certain area began to build a tower to reach God, and through the building of this form, they were going to encounter Allah, God. And Allah watched this happening and changed their languages. So all of the sudden these
When we talk about ourselves, or we talk about our memories and our remembrances, when we talk about our lives, we have this tendency to place them in points of time. We relate to the past within a certain number of years. We relate to the past as if in a certain decade, or century,
We just began 2016, the new year, and every year during the New Year there are celebrations throughout the world welcoming the New Year. The word “new” is the operative word here. It’s like a new day starts a new year. Through the grace of Allah we are given many new moments, and these moments
Most men are in search of peace in their life. They’re in search of equilibrium in their life. They’re in search of a place of contentment without all the pulls and pushes of the elemental world and without all the conflicts that exist within the elemental world. In the same way that volcanos erupt on
On the seventh day God created man. At the culmination of The Creation man, according to Genesis, was the last creation. This should give you an idea of where man is held in the hierarchy of things. According to most scripture and most writings man is the most exalted of Allah’s, God’s, creations, and was
We’ve all gone to the movies and we go to the movies knowing, to some extent, what to expect. Movies come with labels; comedy, action, drama and so forth. And while you sit there and watch you are looking at a group of images being projected onto a screen, and these images talk through a
If you boil water and you catch steam, and it comes back to its normal form through the process of condensation, you’ll see that water is clear, it’s transparent, you can see through it. In politics there is constant talk about making the system transparent, about making the process transparent. There are all kinds of
#222 Use Wisdom To Filter The Thoughts Of The Mind Read More »
