Hi teresa,
Welcome back! It was interesting reading your post. For some reason the words about 'trying daily to connect' and "trying to remember" and "trying to find balance" jumped out at me. I was reminded about my own deliberations about how to…
Hi, wonderful to see some posting. This week was the first time in ages I have looked at this site and walla, there was activity. This past few months I have been engaged fulltime in my postgrad studies and not much time for anything else. This is m…
I am a little bit preoccupied by this idea of finding a teacher, mentor or guide at the moment and sometimes I suspect that this could be a manifestation of greed. A friend of mine who has more of an idea about such matters says to me that one doesn…
Hi Rajan and Michael,
Even though not being widely experienced in the ways of all the different schools of Sufism, I would concur with what you have said Michael. In one of my early conversations with my teacher, I mentioned I was reading Irena Twe…
Hi Kareana,
I agree with a lot of what you say. You are one “blind man”, and I am another, each feeling different parts of the same elephant. The elephant, after all, is all there is. So there’s nothing else we can talk about. Even when we are feel…
I identify with what you are saying here about good and evil and the significance of words and thoughts for the human experience. I also think that while we give these things their due in the scheme of things, we have to be aware that there will com…
Hi Rajan,
I think for me it was a combination of things. Ive written before about what set me off on a spiritual path and I realise it was no one thing or event. It seems it was a natural and almost inevitable progression. actually I couldnt say ex…
Im not sure how to connect this passage to this discussion apart from maybe suggesting that the idea of the word being the creation of things has a resonance with a biblical story also which I thought very interesting.
The Gospel according to Saint…
Dear Michael,
So sorry about the collapsing into each other argument. Actaully it was me collapsing many things into the one argument! I had a vague idea after I wrote it I had confused something. A combination of thinking about the idea of collaps…
Hi Michael and Rajan,
I think what for me is missing in the argument is what I consider the nature of the human condition which largely determines the nature of the situation human beings find themselves in. I think what that we have to acknowledge…
These are truly clear responses Michael, I am thankful for these, I hope one day I may well be able to integrate this as real knowledge in to my being.
Hi Kareana,
Hamadani, he who you quote as saying: O Lord, I do not worship you for the sake of mercy; I maintain no condition for my devotion. I am content with whatever you will and whatever you do was speaking in a similar vein to the famous sayi…
Hi Rajan,
seen from this perspective, would you then say the only undesirable things are those that are opposed to where divinity or the higher power desires for the evolution of humankind/ all creation?
In truth, I don’t know. Not so long ago, I…
Michael, I understand where you are coming from now, seen from this perspective, would you then say the only undesirable things are those that are opposed to where divinity or the higher power desires for the evolution of humankind/ all creation? I…
Partly it was the last musings on fear that got me to thinking on the 'problem' of 'evil'. If everything is God/The One/Allah; where does shaytan/the devil fit into the scheme of things? It is an interesting experience coming to Sufism from a western background and even though I have i… Continue