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CONFRATERNITY MEDITATION FOR OCTOBER 24

“Heaven and hell are the material manifestation of agreeable and disagreeable thoughts.” Gayan of Hazrat Inayat Khan

Annotation by Cherag Hamid Touchon

“In the memory the secret of heaven and hell is to be found. As Omar Khayyam said in his Rubayat: 'Heaven is the vision of fulfilled desire, and hell the shadow of a soul on fire'. What is it? Where is it? It is only in the memory. Therefore memory is not a small thing. It is not something which is hidden in the brain. It is something living, and it is something so vast that a limited mind cannot conceive it. It is something which is a world in itself.” The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan - The Mysticism of Sound and Music – Cosmic Language – Memory

“At death comes leisure; after death the mind comes to greater life, a life more real than here. Death is an unveiling, the removal of a cover, after which the soul will know many things in regard to its own life and in regard to the whole world which had hitherto been hidden. Therefore the realization of what is said about heaven and hell which we have accumulated in our mind, in the hereafter will be our own. Today our mind is in us; in the hereafter we shall be in our mind. And therefore that mind which is mind just now, in the hereafter will be the world. If it is heaven, it will be heaven; if it is another place, it will be the other place. It is what we have made it. No one is attracted and put there. We have made it for ourselves, for our own convenience…
…Various impressions remain in the mind after death. Because what is individual? Being individual is like being in a mist. When different physical organs cannot any longer hold the spirit then they fail, and the spirit has finished with them. The body departs, the spirit remains. The spirit is as individual as the person was individual in the physical body. After the physical body has gone, the non-physical impressions are more distinct because the limitation of the physical body has fallen away. The physical body is a great limitation. When it has fallen away individuality becomes more distinct, more capable of working than on the physical plane.” from: The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan – Healing and the Mind World – Mental Purification – The Pure Mind

32 "Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom.
33 Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be
exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.
34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. The Christian Tradition – The New Testament – Gospel of Luke chapter 12

A Fikr Practice (silent breath meditation)

However many breathes seem appropriate

On the out breath
"GUIDE US ON THE PATH "

On the in breath:
"OF THINE OWN GOODNESS"