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Suggestion, Impression, Belief
Spring Retreat 2012 - Lake of the Ozarks, USA

Outline of Practices and Readings References

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Session 1: The Power of Suggestion In the words of Hazrat Inayat Khan: From morning till evening we are impressed by suggestions coming to us automatically in different forms. The importance does not lie in receiving suggestions or in rejecting suggestions; it lies in understanding what will benefit us and what will be detrimental.
Play Audio of Session 1 (1:19:30)

Session 2: Assuring Success In the words of Hazrat Inayat Khan: When a man says, "I cannot," he has made a suggestion to himself, he has weakened his power of accomplishing what he could otherwise have accomplished. To admit to oneself, "I have no force, I have no power, I have no thought, I have no intelligence," only means working against oneself.
Play Audio of Session 2 (1:18:25)

Session 3: Ennobling the Soul In the words of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Story of Ayaz is an example of modesty together with suggestion.
Play Audio of Session 3 (1:19:11)

Session 4: Hope, Effort, Belief Faith In the words of Hazrat Inayat Khan: We are able to do anything if we choose to make the effort. The difficulty is that often we do not choose to make an effort. Why not? Because we do not believe.
Play Audio of Session 4 (1:03:17)

 

The Art of Personality | Training the Ego
Spring Retreat 2011 - Lake of the Ozarks, USA

Outline of Practices and Readings References

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Day 1: The Sense of Beauty and Sincerity In the words of Hazrat Inayat Khan: There are two things needed in the development of personality: the sense of beauty and the preservation of sincerity.
Play Audio of Session 1 (Length 2:23)
Play Audio of Session 2 (Length 33:15)
Play Audio of Session 3 (Length 38:19)

Day 2: The Jarring Effect of the Ego on Another In the words of Hazrat Inayat Khan: Those who know the right manner of developing personality know that the first lesson in life is to efface that ego as much as possible.
Play Audio of Session 1 (Length 34:03)
Play Audio of Session 2 (Length 39:22)

DAY 3: What Is the Ego? In the words of Hazrat Inayat Khan: Know thyself and thou wilt know God, said the great Sufi philosopher Ali. To know the self is the most difficult thing in the world....
Play Audio of Session 1 (Length 43:36)
Play Audio of Session 2 (Length 39:20)

DAY 4: What the Ego Needs and Does Not Need? In the words of Hazrat Inayat Khan: In order to train the ego it is necessary that one should distinguish what is the right of the ego and what is not its right.
Play Audio of Session 1 (Length 45:39)
Play Audio of Session 2 (Length 29:47)

 

Divine Forgiveness
Fall Retreat 2010 - Lake of the Ozarks, USA

This retreat focused on the various attributes of Divine Forgiveness which leads to liberating freedom from all conditions which arise in our inner and outer world that invoke the need for forgiveness.

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Divine Forgiveness Retreat, Day 1, Part 1 from International Sufi Movement.
This video represents Day 1 (part 1) of a 2-day retreat.

Saturday, October 9, 2010
Session 1: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Play Audio of Part 1 (Length 55:01)

• Invocation of Hazrat Inayat Khan
  
• Purification Breaths as given by Hazrat Inayat Khan
  
• Reading: from Physicians of the Heart, Psychological Perspective
  
• La El La Ha, El Allah Hu: Practice of Zikar (in English):
  Union of “limited (left side/heart) and unlimited (right side/soul)” self. Head to the left sweeping toward the right and back again repeatedly. Left to right saying, “There is nothing”.
  From right to left, “Only God IS!”
• Reading from Physicians of the Heart, Psychological Perspective. Wrestling with contradictions and paradoxes on the Path. (Practice examples in Part 2)
  

 

Divine Forgiveness Retreat, Day 1, Part 2 from International Sufi Movement.

This video represents Day 1 (part 2) of a 2-day retreat. This video includes only the first 10 minutes of the second session. Please listen to the audio file to hear the entire session.

Saturday, October 9, 2010
Session 2: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Play Audio of Part 2 (Length 61:55)

• Practices: Continued from Previous Reading
  
  • From the Sufi Invocation of Hazrat Inayat-Khan:
    Toward the One, The Perfection of Love, Harmony, and Beauty; United with all the Illuminated Souls.
    
  • From the Prayer Salat:
    Until in us be reflected Thy Grace, Thy Glory,
    Thy Wisdom, Thy Joy, and Thy Peace.
    
  • From the Prayer Khatum:
    Open our hearts towards Thy,
    illuminate our souls with Divine Light.
  • From the Prayer Khatum:
    Disclose to us Thy Divine Light, which is hidden in our souls;
    that we may know and understand life better.
  • From the Prayer Salat:
    Pour upon us Thy Love and Thy Light.
    
• Reading: Al-Ghaffar from Physicians of the Heart
  
• Practice: Al-Ghaffar - The Divine Quality of Forgiveness that relieves us from the suffering of continual remembrance of our faults.
  
• Reading: Al-Ghafur from Physicians of the Heart
• Practice: Al-Ghafur - The Divine Quality of Forgiveness that keeps the knowledge of our faults even from the angels.
• Closing: Zikar of Hazrat Inayat Khan
  
• Dedication of Merit

 

Divine Forgiveness Retreat, Day 2, Part 1 from International Sufi Movement.

This video represents the first hour of Day 2 of a 2-day retreat.

Sunday, October 10, 2010
Session 1: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Play Audio of Part 3 (Length 58:36)

• Opening: Singing of "Let Thy Might Strengthen Me" (Words by Hazrat Inayat Khan, Melody by Murshida Nuria Sabato)
  and Singing of the Sacred Sound "Hu"
  
• Invocation of Hazrat Inayat Khan
  
• Purification Breaths as given by Hazrat Inayat Khan
  
• Review Reading: Al-Ghaffar from Physicians of the Heart
  
• Review Practice: Al-Ghaffar - The Divine Quality of Forgiveness that relieves us from the suffering of continual remembrance of our faults.
  
• Review Reading: Al-Ghafur from Physicians of the Heart
• Review Practice: Al-Ghafur - The Divine Quality of Forgiveness that keeps the knowledge of our faults even from the angels.
• Practice: Ya Ghaffar, Ya Ghafur

 

Divine Forgiveness Retreat, Day 2, Part 2 from International Sufi Movement.

This video represents Day 2, Part 2 of a 2-day retreat.

Divine Forgiveness Retreat, Day 2, Part 3 from International Sufi Movement.

This video represents Day 2, Part 3 of a 2-day retreat. This video includes the first 53 minutes of the second session. Please listen to the audio file to hear the remainder of the session.

Sunday, October 10, 2010
Session 2: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Play Audio of Part 4 (Length 51:06)

• Reading: Injustice in Justice
  from An Introduction to a Message in Our Time
  by Hidayat Inayat-Khan.
• Reading: At-Tawwab from Physicians of the Heart
  The Divine Quality of returning to goodness and of being restored from beginningless to endless time and through all circumstances.
• Singing: Return Again
  © Rabbi Shlomo Carlbach
  Rabbi Shlomo Carlbach Music
  
• Reading: Al-Afuw from Physicians of the Heart
  The Divine Quality of Forgiveness that keeps the knowledge of our faults even from the angels. "The process of truly invoking Ya Tawwab is deeply healing, because negativity is transformed into its opposite. This is spiritual alchemy." (quote from Physicians of the Heart)
  
• Practice: Ya Ghaffar (head up);
  Ya Ghafur (head down);
  Ya Tawwab (head left);
  Ya Afuw (head right).
  (concentrate on the breath that removes all traces and impressions of the wrong doing or wound).
  
• Closing: Prayer Khatum

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Ozark Sufi Camp, Spring 2010

Annual Retreat taking place at the Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, USA

Saturday, May 29, 2010
Session 1: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Play Audio of Part 1 (Length 51:55)

• Opening: Singing of the Zikar of Hazrat Inayat Khan and the Sacred Sound "Hu"
  
• Invocation of Hazrat Inayat Khan
  
• Setting the Intention for the Retreat
  
• Reading from the Sufi Message Volume 4,
  Mental Purification Number 11, Mystic Relaxation 1.
  
• Q&A and Discussion
  
• Practice: The Three Rhythms
  
  • The Mobile Rhythm: creative, productive, constructive, and through that rhythm all power and inspiration are gained, and peace is experienced.
    
  • The Active Rhythm: the source of success and accomplishment, of progress and advancement, the source of joy and fulfillment.
    
  • The Chaotic Rhythm: the source of failure, of death, of disease and destruction, the source of all pain and sorrow.

Saturday, May 29, 2010
Session 2: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Play Audio of Part 2 (Length 56:07)

• Practice: The Three Rhythms -Continued
  
• Reading: Sufi Message Volume 4,
  Mental Purification Number 11, Mystic Relaxation 1.
  
• Discussion: Breath and Rhythm
  
• Reading: An Introduction to a Message in Our Time
  by Hidayat Inayat-Khan.
• The symbol of the yellow rose in Sufism and Hazrat Inayat Khan’s affinity for the yellow rose.
  
• Reading: Quote from the 1926 American Radio recording of Hazrat Inayat Khan regarding the Sufi Message.
  
• Practice: Purification Breaths
  
• Practice: Nayaz on the Breath

 

Sunday, May 30, 2010
Session 1: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Play Audio of Part 3 (Length 58:36)

• Opening: Singing of the Zikar of Hazrat Inayat Khan and the Sacred Sound "Hu"
  
• Invocation of Hazrat Inayat Khan
  
• Reading: from the Flower Garden of Inayat Khan,
  Available through Sufimovement.org
  
• Reading: Gamakas, on the subject of "Silence".
  
• Review: The Three Rhythms
  
  • The Mobile Rhythm: creative, productive, constructive, and through that rhythm all power and inspiration are gained, and peace is experienced.
    
  • The Active Rhythm: the source of success and accomplishment, of progress and advancement, the source of joy and fulfillment.
    
  • The Chaotic Rhythm: the source of failure, of death, of disease and destruction, the source of all pain and sorrow.
• Reading from the Sufi Message Volume 4,
  Mental Purification Number 11, Mystic Relaxation 1.

Sunday, May 30, 2010
Session 2: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Play Audio of Part 3 (Length 51:06)

• Reading from the Sufi Message Volume 4: Continued
  Mental Purification Number 11, Mystic Relaxation 1.
  
• Q&A and Discussion
  
• Practice: External Zikar
  
• Practice: Singing Zikar of Hazrat Inayat Khan

 

Monday, May 31, 2010
Session 1: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Play Audio of Part 1 (Length 46:14)

• Opening: Singing of the Zikar of Hazrat Inayat Khan and the Sacred Sound "Hu"
  
• Invocation of Hazrat Inayat Khan
  
• Reading: An Introduction to a Message in Our Time
  by Hidayat Inayat-Khan.
• Chapter: Alchemy of Happiness
• Poem: to the Song called Chanson Exotique
• Biographical Notes: on Pirani Ameena Begum

Monday, May 31, 2010
Session 2: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Play Audio of Part 2 (Length 56:25)

• Reading from the Sufi Message Volume 4,
  Mental Purification Number 11, Mystic Relaxation 2.
• Reading: An Introduction to a Message in Our Time
  by Hidayat Inayat-Khan.
• Chapter: Concentration
• Practice: Five Stages of Concentration on the Sufi Symbol –
  The Heart and Wings
  
  • Observation
  • Visualization
  • Creative Concentration
  • Projective Concentration
  • De-concentration
• Practice: Singing Zikar of Hazrat Inayat Khan
  

 

Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Session 1: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Play Audio of Part 3 (Length 47:47)

• Opening: Singing of the Zikar of Hazrat Inayat Khan and the Sacred Sound "Hu"
  
• Invocation of Hazrat Inayat Khan
  
• Review: The Three Rhythms
  
  • The Mobile Rhythm: creative, productive, constructive, and through that rhythm all power and inspiration are gained, and peace is experienced.
    
  • The Active Rhythm: the source of success and accomplishment, of progress and advancement, the source of joy and fulfillment.
    
  • The Chaotic Rhythm: the source of failure, of death, of disease and destruction, the source of all pain and sorrow.
• Reading from the Sufi Message Volume 4,
  Mental Purification Number 11, Mystic Relaxation 2.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Session 2: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Play Audio of Part 3 (Length 46:41)

• Practice: Five Stages of Concentration on the Sufi Symbol
  The Heart and Wings
  
  • Observation
  • Visualization
  • Creative Concentration
  • Projective Concentration
  • De-concentration
• Practice: Singing Zikar of Hazrat Inayat Khan
  

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Visalat Day, February 5th, Kansas City 2010
In Remembrance of the 83rd Urs of Hazrat Inayat Khan

Part 1: Teachings and Introduction to the Practice of Zikar:
Play Audio of Part 1 (Length 39:32)

• Opening: The class begins with the playing of the Singing Bowl, followed by silence.
• Prayer: Invocation
• Reading: From a Lecture of Hazrat Inayat Khan
  Things to Remember, unpublished
  From the Collective Interviews, September 10, 1926
• Reading: From The Complete Works of Hazrat Inayat Khan
  Summer School, Surenses July 4, 1923
  Subject: Metaphysics III - Centres

Part 2: The Practice of Zikar:
Play Audio of Part 2 (Length 43:08)

• Practice: External Zikar
• Practice: Zikar of Hazrat Inayat Khan
• Closing Prayer: Khatum

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Ozark Sufi Camp, Fall 2009

October 10, 2009
Session 1: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Play Audio of Session 1 (Length 1:04:48)

• Introduction
  The Class begins with the playing of the Singing Bowl,
  followed by silence.
  
• Invocation of Hazrat Inayat Khan
  
• Reading from the Flower Garden of Inayat Khan,
  Available through Sufimovement.org
  
• Reading from the Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan
  
• Reading: Path of Initiation
• Reading:
  Universal Sufism: Path of Prayer, Initiation and Realization
  Available through Blurb.com
• Reflection and Practice: Lines from the Prayer Saum:
  
• In Breath: Draw us closer to Thee every moment of our life,
• Out Breath: Until in us be reflected Thy Grace, Thy Glory, Thy Wisdom, Thy Joy and Thy Peace.
  
• Practice: Wazifa
  
  • Ya Batin: The Hidden, The Inner
  • Ya Zahir: The Manifest, The Evident
• Prayer: Saum
  

October 10, 2009
Session 2: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Play Audio of Session 2 (Length 50:24)

• Reading: American Radio Broadcast, 1926
  Available through Sufimovement.us
  
• Reading: What is a Sufi?
  By Murshid Hidayat Inayat Khan
  Available through Sufimovement.us
• Meditation Session: Compassion and Interconnectedness
  
• Practice: Wazifa
  
  • ar-Rahman: The Most Kind and Gracious
  • ar-Rahim: The Most Merciful, The Most Compassionate
• Prayer: Salat

 

October 11, 2009
Session 1: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Play Audio of Session 1 (Length 1:07:00)

• Introduction
  The Class begins with the playing of the Singing Bowl,
  followed by silence.
  
• Meditation Session: Interconnectedness
  
• Meditation Session: Purification Breaths
• Reading:
  Universal Sufism: Path of Prayer, Initiation and Realization
  Available through Blurb.com
• Meditation Session: Elemental Breaths
  
• Prayer: Khatum

October 11, 2009
Session 2: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Play Audio of Session 2 (Length 1:30:07)

• Introduction
  The Class begins with the playing of the Singing Bowl,
  followed by silence.
  
• Reading: The Message
  By Murshid Hidayat Inayat Khan
  From Summer School, 2009
  Unpublished
  
• Q & A - The Streams of Hazrat Inayat Khan
• Practice: Wazifa
  
  • Ya Alim: The All-Knowing, The Omniscient
• Reading from the Sufi Message Volume XII:
  The Divinity of the Soul
  
• Closing Prayer: Benediction

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Summer School, Katwijk, Netherlands 2009 - Donate
July 27, 2009
LECTURE: Judgement and Understanding -
Play Audio of Lecture (Length 44:50)
>> Download the PDF Document to read the Lecture

Prayer - Invocation
The Lecture begins with the playing of the Singing Bowl,
followed by silence.

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Ozark Sufi Camp, Spring 2009- Donate

May 23, 2009
DAY 1: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS -
Play Audio of Day I (Length 1:12:47)

• Introduction - The Class begins with the playing of the Singing Bowl, followed by silence.
• Prayers: Invocation, Salat
• Meditation Session: The Purification Breaths
• The Flower Garden of Inayat Khan
  Available through Sufimovement.org
• Universal Sufism: Path of Breath,
  Prayer and Zikr
• From the Gathas
  Available through Blurb.com
• Reading: From the Collective Interviews
  July 16, 1926, Friday
  Topic: Sufi Point of View
  Unpublished

 

May 24, 2009
DAY 2: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS
Play Audio of Day 2 (Length 30:42)

• Introduction:  The Class begins with the playing of the Singing Bowl, followed by silence.
• Question and Answer Session
• Reading: American Radio Broadcast, 1926
• Available through Sufimovement.us
• Reading: What is a Sufi?
  By Murshid Hidayat Inayat Khan
  Available through Sufimovement.us
• Due to technical difficulties, audio is not available for the following Meditation Session:
  Meditation Session - The Elemental Breaths

 

May 25, 2009
DAY 3: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS -
Play Audio of Day 3 (Length 1:05:22)

• Introduction: The Class begins with the playing of the Singing Bowl, followed by silence.
• Prayers: Invocation, Salat
• Meditation Session: The Triangle Breaths
• Reading: From the Collective Interviews
  September 3, 1926, Friday
  Topic: Sufi Manner of Sympathy
  Unpublished

 

May 26, 2009
DAY 4: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS -
Play Audio of Day 4 (Length 56:19)

• The Flower Garden of Inayat Khan
  Available through Sufimovement.org
• Prayers: Invocation, Salat
• Meditation Session: Singing Bowl
• Meditation Session: The Purification Breaths
• Reading: From the Collective Interviews December 2, 1924
  Topic: Spirituality is the Natural Nobleness
  Unpublished

 

May 27, 2009
DAY 5: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS -
Play Audio of Day 5 (Length 1:01:51)

• Introduction: The Class begins with the playing of the Singing Bowl, followed by silence.
• Prayers: Invocation, Salat
• Meditation Session: The Purification Breaths
• Prayer: Nayaz
• Reading: From the Collective Interviews, September 10, 1926
  Topic: Things to Remember
  Unpublished
• Reading: From the Collective Interviews, July 28, 1926
  Topic: Personal Power
  Unpublished
• Closing Prayer: Khatum

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Mysticism of Silence, October 2007- Donate

October 26, 2007
Play Audio of Lecture (Length 1:12:47)

• Download PDF of Lecture

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Retreats & Special Events

• July 2007 | Katwijk, Netherlands | Universal Worship
• August 2007 | Retreat in Columbia, MO
• September 2007 | Retreat in Minneapolis, MN - Coming Soon!
• October 2007 | Ozark Fall Camp, Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri
  

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