Part III Crossing India for the third time, I began the long journey towards Calcutta, this time sharing a sleeper with a Japanese Mahayana Buddhist monk from – of all places – Salt Lake City! He told me he was heading to Calcutta to offer his services to Mother Teresa as a willing worker at … Continue reading “Awakening – Mother Teresa – Synchronicity”
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“What’s in a Word, or the Word that was not”
A Day in the Life of a Sufi Recently a friend said to me that he had stopped using the word, “sorry,” feeling that it didn’t ‘mean’ anything; so easy to say, so little ‘meaning’ or ‘content’…, “Oh, sorry! Sorry!” Instead he had taken to substituting the ‘word’ “apologise,” as in, “I apologise for that.” … Continue reading “What’s in a Word, or the Word that was not”
“Awakening – Mother Teresa – Synchronicity”
Part II Leaving Cochin I once again caught a bus, this time heading for Ootacamund, high up in the Nilgiri Mountains, with the promise of Ramesh’s ‘place to get away from the crowds’ as an additional draw-card. He had told me he knew of such a place when we shared the same accommodation back in … Continue reading “Awakening – Mother Teresa – Synchronicity”
“Steps In A Pathless Land”
Pages From the Life Of A Sufi (A Warning) Krishnamurti was wrong. He said, “Truth is a pathless land; no-one can take you there.” Many is the hand that has held my own on this journey of life, through life. For the Sufi, tracks appear wherever one looks. It was Imam Ali, the 4th Caliph … Continue reading “Steps In A Pathless Land”
“Awakening – Mother Teresa – Synchronicity”
The Real Beginning of a New Path Over the next three weeks it is my intention to attempt to follow the threads that led to the ‘opening’ of the Sufi path for me, and hopefully in showing some of the journey that I personally undertook beyond the autobiographical, “Dream that changed my life” (see my … Continue reading “Awakening – Mother Teresa – Synchronicity”
“The Word That Was Lost”
Pages from the Life of a Sufi 9:33pm Sun 4th August Sohravardi – Sheikh al-Ishraq ‘Man of Light’ – Sheikh of Light The ‘Lost Word’ – not lost “word” but lost ‘state of being’ in which the word no longer opens “from within,” the mystery of the “lost word” therefore becomes not some kind of … Continue reading “The Word That Was Lost”
“The Body Of Light: Opening The Word”
Pages from the Life of a Sufi Journal Sunday 26th May Jesus said, “Let them who have ears, hear.” * A questioner asked this of Jiddu Krishnamurti: Q. “Can life ever be lived without control? It’s the essence of discipline.” JK responded thus: “When the controller is the controlled, seen as an absolute fact, as … Continue reading “The Body Of Light: Opening The Word”
“Dispositional Equivalence”
‘Pages from the Life of a Sufi’ Journal Sunday 7th April Last night dreaming/awake – thinking quite clearly about “Dispositional Equivalence” (from some months ago in a dream/experience of the “shrimp” broach with the pink diamond eye – which gave rise to the piece called “Facets of Unity”/seeing through the eyes of another). This element … Continue reading “Dispositional Equivalence”
“Love For The One And Love For The Many”
‘Pages from the Life of a Sufi’ Journal Saturday, 8th June In the cauldron of fire that is life, is love for the One the same as love for the many? Jesus urged us to ‘love our neighbour…’ but who is our neighbour? And is love for the (sometimes) abstract (the One) the same love-in-kind … Continue reading “Love For The One And Love For The Many”
“To Be (A Follower) Or Not To Be (A Follower): That is The Question”
What does it mean, “To be a follower” and what happens when “following” dies? * When I was a young man I spent a number of years in the military. Never ‘front line’ of course, but – never the less – I know what it means to be a “follower” (in this case “of orders”). … Continue reading “To Be (A Follower) Or Not To Be (A Follower): That is The Question”
Tracks in a Pathless Land 