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In turning class we learn to experience higher energies entering into us. We learn how to transmit these into our being and hence into the Earth from which we came. We learn to turn towards the centre of the spiritualized heart. We revolve around our own nothingness and in so doing become all the World!

 

Enter the circle of those lovers

stay close with your essence friends,

or surely your heart will die.

Don't become cold or

you'll be frozen

Rather yearn for oneness of being

 

Come, come whoever you are,

An unbeliever, a fire-worshiper, come

Our convent is not of desperation.

Even if you have broken your vows a hundred times.

Come, come again.

Rumi

                                  Opening of the Heart

 Zikr

Latifas

Turning  Classes - Whirling Dervishes

Rumi Poems & Stories

Mulla Nassruddin Stories
 

Knowing Oneself as Unfolding

 

 

Turn to the heart of remembrance.

Find the tombstone of your ego.

Allow for the unfolding of the bewildered prayer.

Endure in spiritual drunkeness.

Trust in your journey beyond the created world.

Seek out those who senselessly seek meaning where you thought it could not never be found.

 

 

 

 

Sufism

 

 

Sufism is a 4th Way path. Although it differs in that it begins with the aspiration for the opening of the heart. In Sufism It is through the spiritualization of our heart that we can experience a direct perception of what is of true value in our world (alam). The direct perception of our development has been impeded by an early conditioning which provides veils upon the true reality of our outer (zahir) and inner world (batin). Along the Sufi path we learn methods to lift these veils of our conditioning in order that we may aspire to a life filled with new perceptions and manifestations of love (wajud). In this way we seek to become the object of the Beloved's favourable attraction (jesba) and are allowed to become who we are destined to be in life from within.

 

 

Along the path towards the Beloved, 4th Way Sufism embraces our need for simultaneous actions to find the completion of our sacred humanhood. Our need to aspire to the opening of the heart and to ever expand our perceptions of reality can become reconciled  to engaging in a conscious task to serve to increase qualities of graciousness for our humanity and the existing world as we know it. For it is through the heart openings that we may ever enrich our existence.

 

 

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