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READING SUGGESTIONS
SUFI BOOKS:
ONLINE READING:
PERIODICALS:
AUDIO RECORDINGS
Murshid Sam's epic poem SALADIN
read by Murshid Wali
Ali Meyer
recorded and supported musically by Murshid Allaudin
Ottinger and friends
Ruhaniat Publications announces a new CD package of this mystical masterpiece, inspired by
the
historical Saladin, the Muslim Sultan who liberated Jerusalem from the
crusaders. His military brilliance was surpassed only by his tolerance and
understanding, and his honorable and chivalric treatment of his
captives. In his address to the captives, he invokes the universal
spiritual message of mercy and compassion and draws from the essential
truths which are embedded in all spiritual traditions.
The poem SALADIN builds from this foundation to a profound message of
universal awakening. Wali Ali's voice passionately embodies Murshid Sam
and the musical accompaniment is exquisite.
The four CD package is now available
here. The CD package retails for $33, plus $3 for shipping.
May this timely message of spiritual realization spread far and wide!
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Recorded Teachings by Pir Shabda and Murshid Wali Ali
now available online for Download
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A tremendous variety of great recorded talks by PIR SHABDA KAHN
are now available to
download from his
web site !!
GO
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Recordings of MURSHID WALI ALI's open Dharma Night talks,
and also Gatha classes for
initiates, now available online GO.
Pir Shabda Kahn at Mendocino Sufi Camp 2007, Part 2:
Click here to download as one MP3 file (11
mB).
Then you can just "open" the file and your computer should start playing it.
Or click here
to download ten separate tracks in a "Zip file" (11 mB) to make your own CDs. Most
computers
will be able to automatically expand this Zip file into a bunch of smaller files
when you
click on it. Then can use any CD creator software to burn them onto
a couple of blank CD's.
Last month's download was Part 1: here are the links for one file
or tracks for CD.
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- VOICE OF PIR-O-MURSHID HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN
- From a recording made some 90 years ago, the great teacher from India
who brought Sufism to the West is heard singing traditional sacred phrases. May be
translated
as "Peace is Power" and "There is no Reality, except the One"
Download (370 kB)
- THE SUFI CHOIRS
- The original SUFI
CHOIR formed in
1969 among the followers of Sufi Murshid Samuel Lewis. Allaudin William Mathieu --
a consumate
professional in the music world, a teacher of teachers, a composer and performer
with solid
connections to Eastern music, jazz and classicism, and now a Sufi Sheikh -- formed,
led and composed
for the choir, pioneering in East-West "fusion" music and inspiring many souls with
their musicality
and their transmission of joy and wisdom. (Your Webmaster and many others just
about wore out their
Sufi Choir records in those days.) Many of today's Sufi leaders sang with the
choir. We have some
photos by Fatima online, and a
CD is available.
This music has inspired many other choirs to spring up in Sufi
communities. From 1994 until 2005, the tradition was carried on in the North Bay by
THE NEW SUFI CHOIR, performing music of
Allaudin and many
new pieces, mostly originals, and releasing two
CDs also.
(Hear samples).
- MURSHID WALI ALI SPEAKS AT THE URS OF MURSHID SAM, JANUARY 15TH 2005
- Each year, on the anniversary of the day he danced off the earth plane into
immortality,
hundreds of Sufi devotees gather to honor the living presence of Murshid Samuel L.
Lewis
of San Francisco.
Download (2 mB)
- FROM THE 80th URS OF INAYAT KHAN IN INDIA, 2/05/07
- (1) At the Nizamuddin Shrine, recitations in Arabic, followed by our group
reciting the prayers
Saum, Khatum and Salat; and finally some Quwwali music.
Download
(3.2 mB)
(2) At the Dargah of Hazrat Inayat Khan, Pir Shabda sings in Rag Bhairavi; we all
sing
the Zikr of Inayat Khan; and Taj Inayat speaks.
Download (9.3
mB)
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MUSIC BY SHEIKH ISHAQ ON MYSPACE
- Celebrating the memory and music of Sheikh Ishaq Jud. Ishaq was an accomplished
guitarist and
songwriter, and was a Sheikh in both the Sufi Ruhaniat International and the
Mevlevi Order of America.
He
also brought the Dances of Universal Peace to
Eugene, Oregon in 1973.
Listen
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MURSHID SAADI (NEAL DOUGLAS KLOTZ) RADIO BROADCAST
- Hear this noted author and Sufi teacher on The Visionary Activist Radio Show
(Scroll down the page and find the broadcasts dated Jan 10th and Apr 24th 2008)
GO
WEB LINKS
International Network for the Dances of Universal Peace
PeaceWorks - Dances of Universal Peace North America
The Federation of the Sufi
Message
The SufiOrder International
/
Local branch
The Sufi Movement International
/
U.S. Web Site
The Sufi
Ruhaniat International /
Local branch /
San Francisco Center: Khankah SAM.
(Web links for local sufi teachers and leaders are here. More regional
web sites here)
E-MAIL NEWSLETTER:
Keep in touch by joining our Bay Area Sufi e-mail announcement lists
Golden Gate Sufi Circle
is
the Bay Area council of the Sufi Ruhaniat International. Web site
information
includes the great Mendocino Sufi Camp and regional camp-outs.
The Sufi Choir, active mostly
in the
seventies with Allaudin Mathieu directing
and composing, was a direct manifestation of Murshid SAM's legacy. (The music
was on vinyl,
but a CD is available; follow the above link.) Then from 1994 until 2005, the tradition was
carried on by
The New Sufi Choir, performing music of
Allaudin and many
new pieces, mostly originals, and releasing a couple of CDs also.
(Hear samples here).
"Toward peace through the wisdom of the native Middle Eastern traditions" ...
The Abwoon Study Circle is
led by Neil Douglas-Klotz (Murshid Saadi).
Mevlevi Order of America events (the
order headed by
Postneshin Sheikh Jelaluddin Loras). The Bay Area has regular gatherings in several
locations for
zikr and training in the “turning”, the Mevlevi Sema, in the tradition
of Jelaluddin
Rumi.
ASK A SUFI
A new Networking
Site with photos,
poetry,
discussion
Visit, join, contribute. "The Tavern is Open"
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Gnosis
Magazine articles on traditional Sufism as a path toward knowing
the
self.
Sufism's
Many Paths by Dr. Alan Godlas, University of
Georgia
about sufism, sufis and sufi orders world-wide
Religions
Home
Page "Information and links for
study
and interpretation of religions."
TowardtheOne.com is a regional Sufi site out of Texas with a lot of
content that's of general interest. Check out great links, the brief descriptions
of the
different Sufi orders, the prayers of Hazrat Inayat Khan, and the
writings of Murshid Shamcher Beorse.
Serving the
Guest
-- a Sufi Cookbook and Art Gallery, with beautifully illustrated sections
including The
Source of all Sustenance, Generosity, Food for Remembrance, the Many Flavors of
Sufism, Prayers
for the Meal, Tales of Hospitality and Celebration, and a collection of recipes
from all over the
Islamic world.
Lama Foundation, near
Taos NM, has been a
focus of
spiritual life for many of our brothers and sisters for many years. Lama has a full
program of
activities and is the burial place of Murshid Samuel L. Lewis.
Southwest Sufi
Community, near
Silver City
New Mexico: the events and the growing community
The Abode of the Message,
a Sufi spiritual
community in
upstate New York, offers many diverse camps, seminars and events.
OnenessProject.com, a major
supporter of the Dances of Universal Peace, PeaceWorks Inc., and other groups that are carrying
the vision of Murshid Samuel Lewis: to "Eat, dance and pray together". For the last nine years
ONEness has been organizing and promoting Dance circles and events around the U.S., predominately in
the West. One goal (among many) for the ONEness Project is the establishment of a retreat/community
facility dedicated primarily to the Dances.
Mureeds in Recovery e-
mail list -- topics of interest for those following the Sufi path who have found their own
sobriety to be a primary issue in their spiritual unfoldment.
Local Naqshbandi Sufi activities: Golden
Sufi Center Dreamweather Foundation
PHOTO ALBUMS
2004 MENDOCINO SUFI CAMP PHOTOS
PHOTOS FROM THE SUFI SESSHIN AND THE
URS, January '04, by
Yvonne
from the Netherlands
Sufi Camp in Europe: Photos by
Shaffee and Khatiba
Tara Dhatu, Sacred Arts,
Dances of Universal Peace and Pilgrimages
with Anahata and Prema.
Photos
of Murshid Sam
and his Mureeds. Fatima Lassar some years ago found 51 photos to add to her website. "They
were found in
boxes stored at the Garden of Inayat in Novato. There are many of the original Sufi
Choir singing
in Union Square in SF and lots of Murshid Samuel Lewis. I especially like the one
of him in his
early 20's." Note: Also see Fatima's original art work linked to the site.
Stories and Photos
from Mendocino
Sufi
Camp,
2001
MAIN MENU
Content: mostly by Shaffee. Color art at
top:
Fatima Lassar. Magic by the
World Wide Web.!
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" There is one Path
the annihilation of the false ego in the Real,
which raises the mortal to immortality, in which resides all perfection." --
Hazrat
Inayat Khan
