Re: Nature

Posted on Jul 2nd, 2009 by Taikunping in Dancing With The Divine

Hi everyone I've been reading some of the postings I love taking pictures of nature and writing poems too bees joy plain to see flower's gift open and free nectar from the earth

Re: JUNE

Posted on Jun 9th, 2009 by quietlaughter in DIVING DEEPER: A Writing Workshop

June I know that I saw this post when you first made it Sandra, but at the time I just had nothing. No words, nothing to share. I have been in a weird pause in... More »

Re: Truly Bad Writing

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by Jenny in DIVING DEEPER: A Writing Workshop

I am in awe of how wonderfully well the people on this group write. This piece moved me caught me up in it and left me in tears of beautiful emtion. I'm sorry Deleen you... More »

Re: HRONOYA - NOOSPHERE - ASCENSION - GLOBAL MIND - 2012

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by Nicole in God Pod or Life, the Universe and Everything

Welcome, hronoya.  I would like to listen to the videos when my bathroom is not being demolished. :) In the meantime, would you like to share more about it in writing? Peace, Nicole

Re: Just Jump In, The Water's Fine

Posted on May 20th, 2009 by Zephyr in Poets Workshop.

Samiyam,          Welcome to poets workshop, when the muse moves you do share, we would love to hear your truths from the heart, there are as many ways to write as there are poets

Re: Troolee bad riting

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by Sparrow in DIVING DEEPER: A Writing Workshop

 Thank you, Jenny.  I highly recommend this assignment to get you into the swing of things.  Just do your best to write your worst.  Surrender to badness, wholly and completely. Bet you'll be surprised at... More »

the Mod Pod welcomes ~John~

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by ~KES in Gaia Groups Community - "The Mod Pod"

John will be her from time to time as he writing so... Meet  John  -  of  Coopers Beach, Mangonui, Northland, New Zealand Hi Kathy, I've been holed up writing the last while and haven't been... More »

Re: not me assignment - climbing inside

Posted on May 17th, 2009 by Gabriele in DIVING DEEPER: A Writing Workshop

Leigh-Anne, I know what you mean by 'just writing what you see in your head'. When I try to write what I see in my head I tend to get distracted into all kinds of... More »

Re: not me assignment - climbing inside

Posted on May 17th, 2009 by quietlaughter in DIVING DEEPER: A Writing Workshop

oh wow thanks Gabriele - what great tips you have given me. Yes, I see what you mean about it being stronger if it is only from Christine's point of view... and it is interesting,... More »

Re: Stepping into the light

Posted on May 11th, 2009 by quietlaughter in DIVING DEEPER: A Writing Workshop

Hello Yvette! for now I write without worry about what the final product will be. Welcome to Diving Deeper :-) I am looking forward to reading you here. It is great to just write and... More »

What new ideas are bubbling in you these days?

Posted on Jun 9th, 2009 by Malia

I always have ideas. And then they never manifest. And then I forget I had them. >.> As for right now, I'm trying to right music. That's a bubbling idea, right? I have always been... More »

What is your wish for the week ahead?

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by Emily

For the week ahead, I would like to do things that I keep putting off. I would like to tap into my own creative energies instead of drinking in the creative output of everyone else.... More »

Discipline-the here and the now

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by IAAM2

A few years ago I had a casual conversation with a writer who was visiting the Hollyhock Retreat Center. I actually don't remember his name but he was a published author of some successful science... More »

What secrets do you hide even from yourself?

Posted on May 20th, 2009 by EmilyAlice

I never tell secrets! And if I write the secrets that I keep from myself here, then I'll be telling them. That's one thing I do like about myself, people say I'm trustworthy. I always... More »

A Note

Posted on May 20th, 2009 by IsisMoon1180

All the poetry and letters I write are deeply personal. It is apart of my experiences, and based on my existence. It is not to encourage are promote anyone to follow my path. I'm currently... More »

kiss from a rose: not your typical anniversary celebration

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by rudyan

  Today is the anniversary of a death that happened a long, long time ago, and that was probably the single most important event, or at least, turning point, in my life. The time and... More »

What choice would you like to make?

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by Carla

I am now choosing to make the choice not write about it. Turn off the computer.

Don't Let's Wait for the Muses

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by Terrill

I am pleased to announce that a provocative, dynamic and learned guest has accepted my invitation. The next Vision Practice Retreat will host Dr. S Fuller on June 27, 2009. Don’t Let’s Wait for the... More »

What choice would you like to make?

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by B.B.

I'll choose door number two Johnny ,he asks again ,same answer the audience holding their breath,lights hot ,....fingers crossed,the door opens to reveal a goat, mehhhhhhhe,mehhhhhhe,or however you write goat speak. I'm going to call... More »

Happy Victoria Day, shaping the garden and riding with my girls

Posted on May 18th, 2009 by quietlaughter

I have been doing a terrible job in taking the time to write lately. There is alot of resistance going on, resistance to cleaning out the rafters of my mind, and avoidance. Mostly I have... More »

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

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.

His faith is no longer of any use to him. In fact his faith is only useful so long as he is veiled and has not obtained direct vision and evidence. . . . When that which was hidden becomes evident, when that of which he was merely informed is directly seen, the soul no longer derives any profit from that which it believes but only from that which it contemplates and sees. The states, the intentions, the goals which he had during the phase of faith are transformed. This transformation should be understood as purely inner. As to the exterior of this being, it is not modified even an iota. He continues to behave in a way which is acceptable to the sacred Law and commendable according to customs and natural law, engaging in the activities which conform to his situation and his rank among his fellow men.

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