Take the Risk of Entering the Ocean – Poetry from Khalil Gibran
Rumi Fest – Coming up this weekend!
Third Annual
Northwest RUMI FESTIVAL
October 4-6, 2019
Ballard IOOF Hall, 1706 NW Market St, Seattle
24-hour CONTINUOUS TURNING •Open to All
•Friday 7 PM-Saturday 7 PM: Zikrs, Dances, poetry, round-the-clock music and turning, open to all
•Concurrent sohbets & dialogue; teachings & practices; healing ceremony; art & music workshops; & more…
•NW teachers & speakers including Ann Holmes Redding, Imam Jamal Rahman, Khalif Eddie Nasruddin Greenberg, Murshida Khadija Chishti, Raqib Burke, Seemi Ghazi, Khalif Hassan Swanson, Suleyman Scott Hoffman, and Deborah Koff Chapin; Turkish shakykhs Jelaluddin Loras Effendi and Sherif Baba
•Unity Zikr musicians, plus special guests including Jessika Kenney, Rev. Clare Morgan, David McGrath, and Dick Valentine
•Catered Saturday evening feast, 7:30 PM
•Mevlevi Sema, Sunday 3 PM
Your early registration helps us plan for snacks and dinner. Please go to our Brown Paper Tickets page https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4335415 to donate $50 (or more) to help cover the expenses of hosting this event; once again, all proceeds after minimal expenses go to the Ballard Food Bank.. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
To register with a smaller donation, contact Rafi
by email mailto:abdarafiullah@gmail.com , or with a text or call (206) 226-0416
Matthew Fox’s Daily Meditation – Howard Thurman on the Inspiration of Youth
In this posting from Matthew Fox, he speaks to the inspiration Howard Thurman received from the young people attending the March on DC in 1963.
I am often asked and have often wondered myself, what good our protests and marches actually do.
Thurman notices and is inspired by the way these young people in 1963, (and I would suggest those today involved in the Climate Strike, Gun Control, Black Lives Matter, and other causes) demonstrate such courage and have “caught the spiritual overtones” of the activism work they are engaged in.
Matthew Fox asks: Are we becoming “attuned to the spiritual dimensions of what we are about today” in our efforts at rebelling against our and other species extinction? At addressing Climate Change? At realizing that the peril of the planet is also a perspective that allows all generations but also all religions and all nationalities and all peoples and all tribes to work together t combat a common enemy—the death of the planet as we know it?
Check out the full posting here:
Save the Date – October 26th – The Murshids are Coming!
A CELEBRATION in PRAISE of the DIVINE BELOVED
An Evening of ZIKR and the DANCES of UNIVERSAL PEACE
with Pir Shabda Kahn, Murshid Wali Ali and Sufi Ruhaniat Int’l Murshids
Saturday, October 26, 2019 • $20 donation
7:30 pm • Ballard IOOF, Seattle
Beloved Friends,
Enroute to their annual retreat, the murshids/ senior teachers of the Sufi Ruhaniat Int’l will spend an evening in Seattle with the local extended Sufi community. This group is responsible for carrying forward the spiritual transmission of Sufi Murshid Samuel Lewis, the first American Sufi Master; many have traveled and represented this lineage for 50 years. More details will follow.
A no-host restaurant dinner for Ruhaniat mureeds and certified DUP leaders will precede the event, first-come, first served. Seats are limited. More details will follow.
Act Great – Hafiz poetry
ACT GREAT
What is the key
To untie the knot of your mind’s suffering?
What
Is the esoteric secret
To slay the crazed one whom each of us
Did wed
And who can ruin
Our heart’s and eye’s exquisite tender
Landscape?
Hafiz has found
Two emerald words that
Restored
Me
That I now cling to as I would sacred
Tresses of my Beloved’s
Hair:
Act great.
My dear, always act great.
What is the key
To untie the knot of the mind’s suffering?
Benevolent thought, sound
And movement.
~ Hafiz ~
(The Gift – versions of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky)