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World-wide Camps & Retreats 2009:
Sufi Ruhaniat /
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- South Bay Camp in Santa Cruz Aug 21st - 23rd
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- East Bay Camp-Out is Sept 4th-7th
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Photos from Cazadero Sufi Camp-out
Grand Opening of the long-awaited new Sufi Ruhaniat Web Site
The Ruhaniat is the branch of Sufism founded by Murshid Samuel Lewis and now headed by
Pir Shabda Kahn. With the growth and diversification of the Ruhaniat during recent years,
it has become clear that we needed a new Internet vehicle, and it is being co-created by
many Sufi brothers and sisters. Offering content for newcomers and old hands alike, we hope
that this will become an ever more useful planetary tool for unfoldment. Take a look at the
audio and video selections! The link Ruhaniat.org will get you there.
Enjoy!
Gospel Songfest in Nevada City w/ Deborah Rae Thomson
Saturday August 22nd -- Flyer here.
Deborah is a gifted choral artist, dynamic teacher, inspired composer and a catalyst
for awakening the heart with the beauty and joy of gospel singing. She was the Associate
Director of The Lighthouse Singers of Marin from 1980-2005 and is the founding director
of the Mendocino Sufi Camp Gospel Choir.
Sufi Zikr Circles led by Pir Shabda --
In Fairfax at the Semahane, once a month, 8 PM
July 15th and Aug 12th
flyer here
2009 Mendocino Sufi Camps
- "Drink with the Beloved", the 2009 Mendocino Sufi Camp, Jul 19th-26th
Spiritual Directors Mary Kenny and Asha Greer, with Taj Inayat,
Pir Shabda, Murshid Wali Ali, Leilah and Bodhi Be, Imam Bilal,
Allaudin Ottinger, Elaine Sutton, Austin Babcock. For info and online or mail registration and
the camp flyer
go to SufiCircle.org/mendocino.
- Sufi Youth Camp July 14th-18th
Flyer
Online reg
- Mendocino Silent Retreat w/ Murshid Wali Ali
July 26th-30th Go
Give yourself to Life
exploring one's innermost connection to self and others.
An in-depth weekend gathering, led by Gayan Macher with Taj Inayat
weekends of August 28-30 and December 4-6, 2009.
These in-depth weekend gatherings are part of a series focusing on different aspects of the
theme "Give Yourself to Life". Gayan and Taj will explore the Sufi teachings of Hazrat Inayat
Khan specifically relevant to living a fully embodied life and will draw upon interior and
interactive exercises, poetry and music, and the preciousness of spiritual friendship.
Flyer here
New links online: The Sufi Remembrance Project,
a website for sharing memories of Beloveds on the Path who have crossed over.
Baba Ram Dass, Bodhi and Leilah's
Doorway Into Light,
a project envisioned to reclaim the death of our bodies as a sacred
and spiritual passage.
ONLINE SUFI MUSIC DOCUMENTARY! Zahir writes, "Here's a link to a Sufi Soul Documentary that crosses many cultures.
The theme is music and dance as Divine Prayer. It runs 49 minutes, so you may have to let it
"buffer up" before viewing. Love and Peace, Zahir
View film.
(From travel and culture writer William Dalrymple comes this well done and moving documentary
on Sufi music and body-prayer / dance all over the East. There are just a few glimpses of
fundamentalism. I watched this video all the way through and I recommend it. )
A FEW BLOGS TO VISIT
- Visit Pir Zia Inayat-Khan's new blog at
www.sevenpillarshouse.org,
featuring current entries related to Barack Obama's election and 'Id al- Adha. Also
linked on the site are Pir Zia's podcasts and webcasts.
- POETRY of Pirani Ameena Begum Ora Ray
Baker (wife of Hazrat Inayat Khan and mother of Pir Vilayat, Pir Hidayat, and
the heroic Noor Inayat-Khan.
- POETRY BLOG of Tamam Kahn
*** Recordings available from Faisal Muqaddam's presentations at CIIS, Oct 08
info here.
More coming events
- Northwest Sufi Camp Aug 9th-16th: "The Rememberance of Perfection, the Perfection
of Remembrance" Flyer p1 Flyer p2
- Entering
The Stream of Blessing With Pir Shabda Khan, Murshida Asha Greer, Murshida Leilah
Be and The Lama Community. New Mexico, Aug 17-23.
- Sufi Order Summer Gathering in NY, July 9-18
Go.
- Unicorn Family Camps in England
Go.
- SAVE THE DATES for the 2010 Sufi Sesshin, Jan 1-10. Online info and
registration now available Go.
New -- Heartbeat Magazine's
world-wide Ruhaniat event listings
Schedules for Pir Shabda & Wali Ali
Sufism in the News
The idea, therefore, is that prayer becomes living if it is offered from a living heart;
coming from a dead heart prayer has no meaning and is dead. There is a story of an Arab
who was running to a mosque where the prayer of God was being offered, but before he
arrived the prayers were finished. On his way he met a man coming from the mosque,
and asked him, 'Are the prayers finished?', the man replied that they were finished,
and the other sighed deeply and said, 'Alas!' Then the man asked, 'Will you give me
the virtue of your sigh in exchange for the virtue of my prayers?' And the other agreed.
Next day the simple man saw the Prophet in a dream, who told him that he had made a
bad bargain, for that one sigh was worth all the prayers of a lifetime because it
was from the heart.
--Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Sufi Message vol IX
Content: mostly by Shaffee. Color art at top:
Fatima Lassar.
Magic by the World Wide Web.!
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"In a few words, Sufism means to know one's true being, to know
the purpose of one's life and to know how to accomplish that purpose." -- Hazrat
Inayat Khan
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