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 ever happens,
Ever happens…
But words don’t go there,
Don’t go there.
I opened my mouth to exclaim
The communion of souls,
The return to the Whole,
Life everlasting!
But words don’t go there,
Don’t go there.
I started to describe
The painter of all this
Who is in the picture
And sees it too
And sees it too.
But words…
Don’t go there.
- Munir Peter Reynolds, July 2005
Spiritual and Inner Development of the Dance Leader
Munir and Rafia Sieglin of Germany interview on The Spiritual and Inner Development of the Dance Leader, from Dances of Universal Peace International.
CLASSES
Saladin and Munir’s Saturday morning class exploring “Empediment to Embodiment” given on May 27, 2023 at Inland NW Sufi Camp.
CLASSES
Saladin and Munir’s Saturday morning class exploring “Empediments to Embodiment” given at Inland NW Sufi Camp on May 27, 2023
Making the Jump to Lightspeed
What do the traditions teach about the inner meaning and reality of “light”? The teachings of Jesus in Aramaic, the Sufi poets and Hindu sages all point to our essential nature or essence as light. However, attaining to and living from that light presents perhaps the greatest challenge of all to the person-part of us and requires an all-encompassing and uncompromising love. We can call that “Making the Jump to Lightspeed”.
Pursued by Love
What is love really? How is it working in our lives? What does it mean to get on track with that, to cooperate with that, to become that? Real love is impersonal, and yet intimate with absolutely everything and everyone.
Emmisaries of Light
An exploration of our origins out of the vast cosmos, and how the substance of our physical reality is created within stars and supernovas. We are actually the way stars have a conversation. “We are stars wrapped in skin. The light you are seeking has always been within.” – Rumi
The Ripeness of Life
Exploring teachings from the Aramaic Jesus, what does it mean to be “spiritually ripe”, and what is the ripening agent? What are we missing in our society that prevents us from being “ripe”?
Finding Acceptance in Turbulent Times
What is the significance of acceptance as a spiritual act? When inner and outer circumstances appear to be counter to life and to hope, when we are suffering, what do the spiritual traditions teach us? What is the open secret of acceptance that leads to spiritual awakening?
Spring Cleaning the Sangha
What is spiritual sangha? What are we here for? What is the teaching? What can I expect from sangha, and what must I provide for myself? How can we support one another in sangha going forward?
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 ever happens,
Ever happens…
But words don’t go there,
Don’t go there.
I opened my mouth to exclaim
The communion of souls,
The return to the Whole,
Life everlasting!
But words don’t go there,
Don’t go there.
I started to describe
The painter of all this
Who is in the picture
And sees it too
And sees it too.
But words…
Don’t go there.