to the index CONFRATERNITY MEDITATION FOR OCTOBER 4 Annotation by Cherag Hamid Cecil Orion Touchon It is a careful and difficult balance to keep one’s heart tender and loving and at the same time be strong and resilient enough to receive insults and criticism and thoughtlessness from others or face difficult circumstances in life without becoming closed. Often we retreat from our hearts to our minds to avoid feelings that we do not wish to experience but in order to be fully living we work to discipline ourselves to remain open and, more than that, to expand the receptivity of our heart so that we may receive the whole world into it. “The fifth necessity in the spiritual path is the living of the everyday life. There are no strict morals which a spiritual guide enforces upon a person, for that work has been given to the outward religions. It is to the exoteric side of spiritual work that the outer morals belong, but the essence of morals is practiced by those treading the spiritual path. Their first moral principle is constantly to avoid hurting the feeling of another. The second principle is to avoid allowing themselves to be affected by the constantly jarring influences which every soul has to meet in life. The third principle is to keep their balance under all different situations and conditions which upset this tranquil state of mind. The fourth principle is to love unceasingly all those who deserve love, and to give to the undeserving their forgiveness; and this is continually practiced by them. The fifth principle is detachment amidst the crowd;but by detachment I do not mean separation. By detachment is only meant rising above those bondages which bind man and keep him back from his journey towards the goal.” The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan – The Inner Life – The Attainment of the Inner Life There is nothing in the world that
A Fikr Practice (silent breath meditation) However many breathes seem appropriate On the out breath:
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