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  • South Bay Camp in Santa Cruz Aug 21st - 23rd    Go
  • East Bay Camp-Out is Sept 4th-7th   Go
View some Photos from Cazadero Sufi Camp-out
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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.

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Sufi Zikr Circles led by Pir Shabda -- In Fairfax at the Semahane, once a month, 8 PM
July 15th and Aug 12th    flyer here

RECORDED TALKS BY PIR SHABDA, AUDIO DOWNLOADS
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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
    Photo of Pir Zia
    • 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
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    *** 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



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