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Posted on Oct 26th, 2009 by HummingBird in One Light Many Windows

1. Contents list - Navigation Threads Topic Suggestion The GAIA Minute - links 2. Contents list - Open Windows ABCDE ANGER - How I deal with it Anger - How I deal with it -... More »

Re: Tribal Spirituality

Posted on Oct 25th, 2009 by torchholder in One Light Many Windows

a link on inipi and other ceremonies http://www.wolflodge.org/wolflodge/voices/ceremony.htm [mod: added these links to Purification as mentioned.]

Re: Tribal Spirituality

Posted on Oct 25th, 2009 by HummingBird in One Light Many Windows

The important thing is, to honor that need within us to search and keep searching till we find it what a blessing indeed, for the heart will yearn until it arrives home love flows

Re: Spirituality on the home front.

Posted on Oct 23rd, 2009 by Taikunping in Peace,Politics and Philosophy in our Patch's.

Yes Sandy, it is a beautiful way to share our energies with the earth and connect to our inner rhythm You are such a beautiful soul, it is always a joy sharing with you... Love... More »

Re: What makes your heart SING ?

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by Kundan in Questions & Reflections: The Group

So much makes my heart sing: meditation, especially the ones here: http://diamondalignment.com http://templeofsacredsound.org http://zerolimits.info dancing performing poetry listening to spiritual songs and music massaging and being massaged playing the flute reading writing poetry

Re: More God/spiritual jokes

Posted on Jul 29th, 2009 by Nicole in God Pod or Life, the Universe and Everything

That's very considerate of you to ask, hariis! Personally, I consider all these open source, but if Tharlam would like you to link it to something, I'm sure he could mention it. Thanks for joining... More »

Paramahansa Yogananda

Posted on Jun 29th, 2009 by sanmugan in Ancient works of wisdom

Paramahansa Yogananda was born Mukunda Lal Ghosh on January 5, 1893, in Gorakhpur, India, into a devout and well-to-do Bengali family. From his earliest years, it was evident to those around him that the depth... More »

Re: God and Evolution

Posted on Jun 9th, 2009 by Is. in Integral Archipelago

"does anything exist that is (spiritually) higher or more advanced than those beings?" In dualistic terms, human beings are the most advanced development of evolution in the whole of the known universe. (There is nothing more complex... More »

How do you submit a film to Spiritual Cinema?

Posted on Jun 2nd, 2009 by Steve Goodman in Spiritual Cinema Circle

And what kind of things do you look for in a film in order to make it into the group?

Re: what is Post-metaphysical spirituality?

Posted on May 30th, 2009 by Mark in Integral Post-metaphysical Spirituality

This is a wonderful contribution, Tom. I had an opportunity to sleep on it and will remark about this later on today. Many thanks, Mark

A few resources for consciousness events - Boulder/Denver

Posted on Oct 27th, 2009 by Caryn

Here are a few links to make it easy to find something soulful to do. Resource Article Please let me know if you have other links and I'll add them to future articles. Bliss to... More »

Practice your practice

Posted on Oct 26th, 2009 by Jeff

I the past few days I have sought to resurrect, illuminate, re-create a spiritual practice, my spiritual practice, a practice that is not only moments of alone time but alone time that moves my ego... More »

Yoga and the Spiritual Path

Posted on Oct 24th, 2009 by Jim

Before I get going too far, yoga also has spiritual teachings, and my teacher happens to use some of those teachings. However, I'm using the term "yoga" in the more general sense that people think... More »

What would you like to see more of?

Posted on Oct 23rd, 2009 by sanmugan

More and more spirituality, that is Athma.

It's all going to end soon. Finis. This blog will be on vacation.

Posted on Oct 23rd, 2009 by Centria

Ahhh, it's been a lovely month of October.  Just blog, blog, blog.  You know, letting the inner voice carry on.  Say what the heck it wants to say, whenever it wants to say.  Blog, blog,... More »

YIPPEEE ! !

Posted on Oct 23rd, 2009 by Alluvja

I'm   loving   TUT 's daily message of today: "It's got nothing to do with being a perfect, goody-goody, selfless, sacrificing, spiritual saint, Lucienne,  Blah! That whole characterization was meant for a different audience... More »

fluidity of the fields of life

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by neverness

the three fields of life -- i, we, all -- self, soul, essence -- one is not on top of the others, that is they dance together--that is they flow in and out of each... More »

A Quasi-spiritual Post on the RealTruth Blog

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by Bruce

Well, it's been a coon's-age since I've posted anything here. I've been working on another blog and forum at http://befreedom.org dedicated to learning about reclaiming our sovereignty (and understanding how we "lost it"). But the... More »

The Soul's Dream for Us: An Unsual Love Story

Posted on Aug 8th, 2009 by Kundan

This insistence to discovery will be present, whether a given relationship seems "ordinary" - that is, a conventional marriage - or extraordinary - doesn't conform to the social dictates of daily, domestic, exclusive, or forever.... More »

Experiential evidence

Posted on Aug 6th, 2009 by RLtruthseeker-artist

                             "Do not go by oral tradition, by lineage of teaching, by hearsay, by a collection of texts, by inferential reasoning, by reasoned cogitation, by the acceptance of a view after pondering it,... More »

Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God's dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance.

A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.

And if you are patient - certainly that (huwa) is better (khayr) for those who are capable of being patient. (Koran 16:126) Commentary: In this verse, Allah consoles his patient servants in their trials by announcing that He Himself is the substitute and the replacement of that which they have lost and which was pleasing to their natural dispositions. In effect, being patient consists in constraining the soul to accept that which is repugnant to it. The soul experiences an aversion for everything which is not in accord with its predisposition in the present instant, even if it knows that it will be beneficial for it later on. . . . Allah has thus announced to those who patiently bear the loss of that which pleases them - health, riches, greatness, security, possessions and children - that "He" [for this is the proper sense of the pronoun huwa rendered above as "that" in conformity with the way the verse is usually understood] is better (khayr) for them than that which they have lost; for they know that "He" [who is the Name of the supreme absolutely unconditioned Essence] is their inseparable reality and their necessary refuge, and that the pleasing things that they have lost were pure illusions. . . . He who has found Allah has lost nothing, and he who has lost Allah has found nothing.

. . . Whoever adores Allah through the fears of the fires of hell or in order to gain Paradise, whoever invokes Him in order that his share in the goods of the world be enlarged, or so that people should turn their faces toward him in order that he be glorified, or to avoid the evil which an oppressor afflicts upon him; or further, if he has heard a hadith* of the Prophet according to which he who accomplishes a certain pious work, or recites a certain invocation, will receive from God some recompense - whoever does this, his adoration is tainted, and it will not be acceptable to God except by virtue of His grace and of His generosity. . . . God said, "Whoever hopes to encounter his Lord, let him do pious works and, in the adoration of his Lord, not associate any being with Him." (Koran 18:110) The things which I have mentioned are the "beings" which are associated with God. Now, God is, of all those that are associated in adoration, the One who absolutely transcends all association. That is why He prescribed to all His servants that they adore Him with a perfectly pure faith which implies the desire for no other recompense than His face. . . . *hadith: A saying of the Prophet transmitted outside the Qur'an through a chain of known intermediaries. There are two kinds of hadith: hadith qudsi (sacred sentence), a direct revelation, in which God speaks in the first person by the mouth of the Prophet, and hadith nabawi (prophetic sentence), an indirect revelation in which the Prophet speaks as himself. (Introduction to Sufism, p. 117)

The search has no end: the knowledge of God has no end. He can not be known. He can only be known by that which proceeds from Him, as effects of His names, not His ipseity*. This is why the following order was given even to the Prophet, although he possessed the knowledge of the First and the Last: "Say, 'Lord, increase me in knowledge!'" (Koran 20:114). And he does not stop saying this, in every state, every station, every degree; in this world, in the intermediate world and in the beyond. *ipseity: The quality of God as a wholly independent being who is complete in Himself. The term gives emphasis to the paradox that God, without any need to do so, creates and draws creatures to Him through love and knowledge. (Definition courtesy G. Thursby)

When the sight will be dazed,when the moon will be eclipsed, when the sun and moon will be in conjunction, on that day man will say: "Where to flee?' But there is no refuge. (Koran 75:7-11) Commentary: "When the sight will be dazed"; when it will be stunned and perplexed. This relates to the moment when the theophanies begin, for the being has no previous knowledge of what he is now contemplating, no familiarity with what he is seeing. The "moon" symbolizes the servant in his contingency, and the "eclipse" his disappearance: that is to say, the evidence that his being is borrowed and does not belong to him himself for he "is" only in a metaphorical way. . . . The sun symbolizes the Lord - may He be exalted! - just as the moon symbolizes the servant. Their "conjunction" symbolizes the degree of the "union of the union" (jam' al-jam'), which is the ultimate degree, the greatest deliverance and the supreme felicity; and consists in seeing at the same time the creation subsisting by God, and God manifesting Himself by His creation. . . . The gnostic then asks "Where to flee?" because of the violence of the perplexity provoked in him by the multiplicity of the theophanies: their diversity, their fleeting character, the rapidity with which they disappear, the abundance of the divine descents (tanazzulat) which stun the intellect and plunge it in stupor. . . . "But there is no refuge" - there is no shelter, no way out. The gnostic who would leave this state to find repose is warned that the repose and the Gnosis are only found precisely where he is. The perplexity increases as the divine descents increase, but it is these divine descents which are the source of spiritual knowledge. This is why the foremost of the gnostics, our Prophet - on Him be Grace and Peace! - said "Oh Allah, augment my perplexity with regard to Thee!"

Paraphrased: Among the degrees of the universal Manifestation, each sentient creature typically experiences an illusory sense of autonomy. At the same time, with or without the creature's awareness, the creature subsists eternally as an "immutable prototype" in the divine Knowledge.

Then God - may He be exalted! - said to me, "What are you?" I replied, "I am two things, according to two different relations. With respect to You, I am the Eternal, forever and ever. I am the necessary Being who epiphanizes himself. My necessity proceeds from the necessity of Your essence and my eternity from the eternity of Your knowledge and Your attributes. "With respect to me, I am pure non-being who has never breathed the perfume of existence, the adventitious being who remains nonexistent in his adventitiousness. I only possess being so long as I am present with You and for You. Left to myself and absent from You I am one who is not, even while he is (fa-ana mafqud mawjud)."

God has stolen my [illusory] "I" from me and has brought me near to my [real] "I" . . . The colors have returned to the pure primordial white. The voyage has reached its end and everything other than Him has ceased to exist. All attribution, every aspect and all relation being abolished, the original state is reestablished.

There are two kinds of death, the death which is inevitable and common to all beings, and the death which is voluntary and particular to certain ones of them only. It is the second death which is prescribed for us in the words of the Messenger of Allah: "Die before you die." The resurrection is accomplished for him who dies this voluntary death. His affairs return to God and they are but one. He has returned to God and he sees Him through Him. As the Prophet said - on him be Grace and Peace! - according to a tradition reported by Tabarani, "You will not see your Lord before being dead" and that is because, in the contemplation of this dead-resurrected one, all creatures are annihilated, and for him only one thing exists, one Reality only. Whatever will be the lot of the believers in their posthumous states is prefigured in one degree or another in this life for the initiates. The "return" of things - considered in relation to [the diversity of] their forms - to Allah and the end of their becoming, expresses only a change of cognitive status and not at all a modification of the reality. For him who dies and achieves the resurrection, the multiple is one, by reason of its essential unity; and the One is multiple, by reason of the multiplicity in Him of relations and aspects.

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Got that favorite film you're passionate about recommending, or just wish more people would see it?  Go ahead,... More »

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Gay Spirituality

For those who who are gay, bi, or lesbian etc. and exploring their spirituality. A loving and... More »