Inside the noise my life makes
you live in silence. ~ Pir Elias Amidon
Your Beautiful Composure is from Munajat a book of forty prayers, by Pir Elias Amidon, originally inspired by the Munajat — ‘whispered prayers,” or “intimate conversations with God’ — of the 12th Century Persian Sufi, Abdullah Ansari.
We are lost in a fantasy of separation in which I am “in here” while the world I see—the ten thousand things—is “out there.” It is from that confusion that one awakens. ~ Robert Saltzman
Stillness Speaks is pleased to offer this excerpt, Awakening Never Ends, from Robert Saltzman’s new book, The Ten Thousand Things, which takes a unique and pragmatic look at awakening, free will, self-determination, destiny, choice, and who we really are. This excerpt opens with a question to Robert: as an apparently awake person who is willing to answer questions, what would you say is the most important question to ask?
“… So the divine level is the one mind, the one consciousness, which is also the same thing as who you are …” ~ Philip Jacobs
This Overview introduces a 5-part interview between Paula Marvelly and Philip Jacobs, resident Sheikh of the London-based Study Society, discussing Advaita, Sufism and the turning ceremony of the whirling dervishes, and in particular the way in which sacred dance can be a direct means for accessing, and becoming one with the Divine. Paula Marvelly is the creator and editor of The Culturium, a magnificent site about Art and Consciousness. Paula was also a former editor of Stillness Speaks.
“The arts of Zen are not intended for utilitarian purposes or for purely aesthetic enjoyment, but are meant to train the mind, indeed, to bring it in contact with ultimate reality.” ~ D.T Suzuki
We are pleased to offer part 2 of this 4-part series, Zen and The Art, authored by Zen teacher and poet Henry Shukman, originally published as Zen and the Art, in the Spring 2012 Issue of Tricycle Magazine and also published on the Mountain Cloud Zen Center website.
“You’ve got to be awake, alert, and ready for anything. If you live in your mind, you will always seek safety and security, finding it in beliefs and dogma, but all the while you will be hiding from life.” ~ Robert Rabbin
Contemporary mystic Robert Rabbin speaks with intimate authority about the fundamental nature of being, reality, and essence.Glory is a poem from Robert’s book, The Explosive Silence of Meditation, a collection of sutras reflecting “deep reality: the place of Being itself.”
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