to the index CONFRATERNITY MEDITATION FOR OCTOBER 3 Annotation by Cherag Hamid Cecil Orion Touchon Sometimes people become so smart, so learned that all their knowledge just makes them stupid. This happens because one's intellectual knowledge, one's reasoning blocks and obscures one's intuition and one's spiritual knowingness. Reasoning depends on predictability but innocence depends on the possibility that something unexpected and surprising can happen. Many things are mechanical and predictable and subject to technique and reason but when reason is applied to faith, faith is too fine and too delicate to withstand it. It is like using a hammer on something that needed a polishing cloth. When it is time for faith and inspiration, put the intellectual stuff to the side, empty yourself of its arrogance and find your innocence which is willing to believe that something unexpected and surprising can happen and trust that it will. Then the door to Divine Grace is open and only God knows what happens from there. Is faith attainable by perseverance in belief? Things of heaven cannot be attained by perseverance, they are the grace of God. No perseverance is required to ask for the grace of God, to believe in the grace of God, and to open oneself for the grace of God, to trust in it. It is this which strengthens belief into faith. Everything belonging to the earth costs us more or less, we purchase it; there is only one thing which does not cost anything, because we can never pay its price, and that is the grace of God. We cannot pay for it in any form, in any way, by our goodness, by our piety, by our great qualities, merits or virtues, nothing. For what does our goodness amount to? Our lifelong goodness is nothing more than a drop of water compared with the sea. We as human beings are too poor to pay for the grace of God in order to purchase it; it is only given to us. The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan Healing and the Mind World Health The mystics have in all ages recognized the virtue of purity which is
represented by innocence. A man filled with earthly knowledge - and what
he calls learning is often only the knowledge of names and forms - has
no capacity for the knowledge of truth, or of God. It is the innocent and
pure soul who has a capacity for learning. When a person comes to take
a lesson on any subject, and he brings his own knowledge with him, the
teacher has little to teach him, for the doors of his heart are not open.
His heart that should be empty in order to receive knowledge is occupied
by the knowledge that he already had acquired. In order to know the truth
or to know God earthly qualifications and earthly wisdom or learning are
not necessary. What one has to learn is how to become a pupil. . The
Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan Sufi Teachings - The Privilege of
Being Human Truth
2 He called a little child and had him stand among them.
21 At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, "I
praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these
things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.
Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure. Christian
The New Testament Book of Luke Chapter 10
A Fikr Practice (silent breath meditation) However many breathes seem appropriate On the in breath
On the out breath:
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