What is a Sufi?
by Munir, for Mureeds Retreat 2022
Is a Sufi someone who wears a funny hat, dances to Middle Eastern melodies, and needs to hug as many friends as possible? Perhaps some of the time but not all the time. –More–
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How can we serve the highest purpose in life? By seeing all of the ways that we resist and make demands upon Life, and simply stop doing that. The whole overlay of beliefs and assumptions about our relationship to life have to come into question. This is like ceasing to become.
“But, wait! Won’t I just become a blob on the couch, never caring about anything, never doing anything. Aren’t we supposed to be engaged with life? Aren’t I supposed to ‘See and do’?”
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I started to speak Of how we touch somewhere In that veiled but palpable Essence Beyond the screen of mind, The screen of mind… But words don’t go there, Don’t go there I was trying to say That we are all the same That our “problems” are not different And that only one thing […]
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We know that if we argue with “what is”, we are going to suffer. “What is” has no opposites. It happens beyond good and bad, right and wrong, caring and indifference. What we are seeing is the cost of this moment. This moment appears to come at a very high price. In order to view the earth from Saturn, we also have conflagration on earth. They go together in this moment.
What happens if we were to wholly accept the fact that we really don’t know anything about the reality we inhabit? The mind stops churning, we are brought up short, we become quiet. Not knowing robs us of our hubris. When we are humble and innocent, a new way of “not knowing” starts to open up and connects us to everything in a fresh and renewing way. Not knowing, not trying to reach closure or a sense or safety rooted in changing phenomena, opens us to a different state of consciousness.
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As we enter the silence of our being and start to follow the fullness of it as a total movement – ceasing to distinguish emotion, sensation, thought, sight, sound, etc., as separate phenomena – experience takes on the quality of a silent river or wind. This movement has energy, vibrancy and aliveness to it. In the midst of this river is the still “experiencing” that follows every detail of the movement. This experiencing or witnessing is a verb, not a noun or a subject.
This living presence is alert, relaxed and totally present. It holds the world with engagement and appreciation. Relationship is fundamental to it because the substance of presence is made of every factor of the environment. It is like looking into a mirror that reflects everything, not just the image, as living experience. We as sentient beings in essence are the aliveness of the world reflected in consciousness.
What is a Sufi
What is a Sufi?
by Munir, for Mureeds Retreat 2022
Is a Sufi someone who wears a funny hat, dances to Middle Eastern melodies, and needs to hug as many friends as possible? Perhaps some of the time but not all the time. –More–
Living to a Higher Purpose
How can we serve the highest purpose in life? By seeing all of the ways that we resist and make demands upon Life, and simply stop doing that. The whole overlay of beliefs and assumptions about our relationship to life have to come into question. This is like ceasing to become.
“But, wait! Won’t I just become a blob on the couch, never caring about anything, never doing anything. Aren’t we supposed to be engaged with life? Aren’t I supposed to ‘See and do’?”
Words Don’t Go There
I started to speak Of how we touch somewhere In that veiled but palpable Essence Beyond the screen of mind, The screen of mind… But words don’t go there, Don’t go there I was trying to say That we are all the same That our “problems” are not different And that only one thing […]
How Can Anything Exist? by Munir
Embracing the Unknown
We know that if we argue with “what is”, we are going to suffer. “What is” has no opposites. It happens beyond good and bad, right and wrong, caring and indifference. What we are seeing is the cost of this moment. This moment appears to come at a very high price. In order to view the earth from Saturn, we also have conflagration on earth. They go together in this moment.
What happens if we were to wholly accept the fact that we really don’t know anything about the reality we inhabit? The mind stops churning, we are brought up short, we become quiet. Not knowing robs us of our hubris. When we are humble and innocent, a new way of “not knowing” starts to open up and connects us to everything in a fresh and renewing way. Not knowing, not trying to reach closure or a sense or safety rooted in changing phenomena, opens us to a different state of consciousness.
Presence
As we enter the silence of our being and start to follow the fullness of it as a total movement – ceasing to distinguish emotion, sensation, thought, sight, sound, etc., as separate phenomena – experience takes on the quality of a silent river or wind. This movement has energy, vibrancy and aliveness to it. In the midst of this river is the still “experiencing” that follows every detail of the movement. This experiencing or witnessing is a verb, not a noun or a subject.
This living presence is alert, relaxed and totally present. It holds the world with engagement and appreciation. Relationship is fundamental to it because the substance of presence is made of every factor of the environment. It is like looking into a mirror that reflects everything, not just the image, as living experience. We as sentient beings in essence are the aliveness of the world reflected in consciousness.