Murshida Nuria Stephanie Sabato

Meditations on the Message is a monthly Meditation Retreat that focuses on the teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan. Click on each of the links to listen to the tracks.

August 14, 2010

This class focuses on the teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan on the subject of the The Training of the Ego: Vanity . The teachings, supported with supplemental readings, meditations, and breath practices, are all aimed at the development of mastery over the limitations of one’s own personality and character, and the soften of the self-cherishing ego. In the words of Hazrat Inayat Khan, "Man has the desire to do good and to refrain from doing evil because to do so feeds his vanity. Among thousands it is one great soul that can keep firm and strong in his purpose through life, unshaken and unweakened by opposition from any side. It is that person who wins in the end and accomplishes things that are worthwhile."

Murshid Hidayat Inayat-Khan visits the "Meditations on the Message" class via Skype. Murshid Hidayat Inayat-Khan leads the Sufi Invocation of Hazrat Inayat Khan and speaks briefly on the meaning of the Invocation.
from International Sufi Movement on Vimeo.

PART 1: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Play Audio of Part 1 (Length 57:45)

• Tuning to the ringing of the Tibetan Medicine Bowl
  
• Opening Words & Invocation of Hazrat Inayat Khan
  Murshid Hidayat Inayat-Khan joined the class via Skype to open the session with the Invocation of Hazrat Inayat Khan.
  
• Prayer Salat
  
• Reflective Invocation of Masters, Saints and Prophets
• Introduction: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas,
  Part VII, Gatha 1.7, Saluk: Moral, Paragraph 1,
  "The Training of the Ego: Vanity".
• Practice: the Purification Breaths
• Reading: from Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas,
  Part VII, Gatha 1.7, Saluk: Moral.
  "The Training of the Ego: Self-Consciousness".

PART 2: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Play Audio of Part 2 (Length 52:48)

• Continuing the cycle of teachings: dealing with the subject of our inner moral culture, the Art of Personality and Character-Building.
  
• Continued: Reading: from Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas,
  Part VII, Gatha 1.7, Saluk: Moral,
  "The Training of the Ego: Vanity".
• Meditation and Reflection:
  
• Inhalation: Give me new spirit of enthusiasm and courage
  
• Exhalation: to proceed on life's path
  
• Prayer: Nabi
• Reading: Message Paper, The Peculiarity of Great Masters, Rama

PART 3: PRACTICES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Play Audio of Part 3 (Length 27:33)

• Meditation and Reflection:
  
• Inhalation: Balance my life,
  
• Exhalation: That I may know and act aright.
  
• Prayer: Dowa
• Reading from the Social Gathekas
  Subject: Path of Initiation
  
• Reading from Once Upon a Time, Early Days Stories About My Beloved Father and Mother, Chapter 6, The Jug of Cool Water
  By Hidayat Inayat-Khan
  Available through Sufimovement.org
• Meditation and Reflection:
  
• Inhalation: Give me new spirit of enthusiasm and courage
  
• Exhalation: to proceed on life's path
  
• Closing Prayer Khatum

With our love,
Nuria, Joe, and all Sufi Brothers and Sisters • USA

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