Ozark Spring 2012
Camp, Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri USA
Suggestion,
Impression, Belief ¥ Teachings by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Prepared and
Presented by Murshida Stephanie Nuria Sabato
Session
1
á Musical Meditation Introduced
by KarimaGita Erickson
á Essence: 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.
á Practice:
o
Call to mind a negative impression you hold of someone you do
not know personally. For example, a public figure, a religious figure, a
historic figure.
o
Ask yourself, ÒDid I form this opinion based on personal
knowledge or public opinion?Ó
o Hold the person in
the light of your heart and send upon their body, heart, and soul the light of
love, understanding, and wisdom.
o
Wazifa: Ya Rahman
– Ya Rahim
o
Repeat this practice for someone you know personally.
o
Repeat this practice for yourself.
á Contemplation: ÒWhen Divine mercy, compassion, and
kindness are expressed through a God-realized personality, then the stains of
sins, faults, and mistakes are washed away and the soul becomes clear.Ó
(Nirtan, Hazrat Inayat Khan)
Session
2
á Musical Meditation Introduced
by KarimaGita Erickson
á Essence: 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.
á Practice:
o
Think of a situation of accomplishment where you said, ÒI
cannotÓ. Consider, what was the outcome of this attitude?
o
Erase this impression from you mind by replacing it with the
impression of success.
o
Ask for Divine Support and Insight in seeing the steps to
bringing this impression into a living reality.
o
Wazifa: Ya Fattah, Ya
Alim, Ya Wahabo
Session
3
á Musical Meditation
Introduced by KarimaGita Erickson
á Essence: The Story of
Ayaz is an example of modesty together with
suggestion.
á Practice:
o
Consider how our personality and ego enslaves us and pulls us
down from the exalted position as a child, a seed of God.
o
Are we willing to embrace both our humanity and our divine
inheritance?
o
Wazifa: Dhul Jelal
Wal Ikram ÒLord of Majesty
and MightÓ
o
By struggling with the self one will find nobility, which is a
divine heritage. (The Message Papers, The Inner School, Hazrat Inayat Khan)
Session
4
á Musical Meditation
Introduced by KarimaGita Erickson
á Essence: 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.
á Practice:
o
May [my] faith be strengthened (breathing in)
o
So that I may see the hidden hand of God in all things. (breathing out), (Blessing of MurshidÕs
Murshid, Abu Hashim Madani
to Hazrat Inayat Khan, ÒMay Your Faith be strengthenedÓ.)