These breathing practices were given by Hazrat Inayat Khan to purify our breath. In doing this we can also understand that we are purifying the atmosphere around us. This is important during this time that the coronavirus is carried in the air. The air is shared by every being on this planet that … [Read more...] about Developing Your Breath Practice
Breath Practices for Purifying Your Breath
Breathing in different patterns can purify your breath. I will give instructions for these basic breath patterns here. In a later post I will describe more of the details. These breathing practices can purify the air and atmosphere around and within you, so they are very helpful in bringing balance … [Read more...] about Breath Practices for Purifying Your Breath
The Value of Respect
In the United States this activity is now generally called the Brotherhood/Sisterhood or the Kinship activity, using inclusive language. This activity is needed in the world today to bring greater balance and harmony. I was asked to speak on the quality of respect, which is one of the five … [Read more...] about The Value of Respect
Universal Worship Service. New Year’s Eve 2018
Gatheka 1: The Intoxication of Life, part 1
This is the first part of a series of papers that Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan gave to us. These papers provide an introduction to the teachings of Universal Sufism. I have edited the papers for inclusive language, and then make a few comments, to aid in your own … [Read more...] about Gatheka 1: The Intoxication of Life, part 1
Gatheka 1: The Intoxication of Life, Part 2
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The Intoxication of Life Gatheka 1, part3
In this Gatheka text, Murshid speaks about the nature of pleasure, and the way that habits of thought can keep us hooked in a puzzle. Then I offer a poem of Rumi which illustrates this teaching. … [Read more...] about The Intoxication of Life Gatheka 1, part3
The God Ideal
Recently, I learned that Pope Francis declared (in a 2016 decree) that Mary Magdalene will be honored by having her own major feast day, June 22. In doing this, he acknowledges the woman who in the New Testament is the first to proclaim the resurrection of Jesus. For centuries only the male … [Read more...] about The God Ideal