The Urs of Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

http://soi-seattle.org/event/urs2019/

“Death as an Ally”

Shahabuddin David Less: “Making Death an Ally for Living Our Fullest Life”

Ego As Opportunity

Premise (posted to my Facebook feed recently ago: “Inflated ego, an over-emphasis on one’s self (MY needs/ desires/ fears/ ‘my view is the right/true way’/etc.), is the primary obstacle to human evolution and to optimal futures for our planet.”

It’s not a “problem” if you look at ego inflation as a futile attempt of the Boundless in us to know and express Itself in and through the limitations of embodied life.

From that perspective, the thing is to drill into the facets & countenances of the “inflation” and discern what’s trying to surface and evolve through the constrictions and filters of the ego.

So it’s not a “problem,” it’s an opportunity.

“The Soul’s Journey” — Talks by Pir Zia Inayat-Khan

“The Soul’s Journey” from before birth through the non-phsical vibratory planes to manifestation, and through the “afterlife” are a foundational teaching of the Sufis and especially of Hazrat Inayat Khan.

Pir Zia discourses on these teachings in four podcasts. This is “the Sufi Book of the Dead.” Highly recommended.

THE EYE OF THE HEART

The essence and direction of our journey during our lives, are hidden in the “Intention” that has driven and therefore shaped our destiny. As a human being our experience of this force of nature, this manifestation of God in our very being, is an aspect of our will and resolve. When combined in a harmonious expression they become a divine declaration via the heart (resolve) and the mind (will). Action and non-action, movement and rest are felt as clues illuminating a path that reveals itself in a flurry of impressions both instinctive and intuitive, whirling madly around each other in search of balance, of harmony, which is, for the one who endures the experience, Love Divine.

What do we know of this Love Divine? Through meditations we have identified this condition to be the natural state of our being. Nevertheless, we need to remember that the intensity of our pleasure in love, is in proportion to the intensity of our experience of separation, of our longing to reunite with this natural condition, which again and again we forget. Yet, we also known that a balance between these opposites can only be a brief experience, due to the essential mandate of nature, to create friction as the source of all that is, particularly divine intelligence.

Wajid