Salik,
Did you become a Mureed (Murid?)? I didn't take that step, but stayed close to
the group for three years. We even had a retreat once with Pir Vilayat
upstairs at Shahabuddin's place downtown.
I liked the beautiful orange hardcovers of Hazrat's book series. I think I
only owned, once, the MEDITATION volume, and alas it was destroyed by water
damage when a steam radiator exploded in a place I rented.
All those 12 or so volumes of teachings seemed a bit daunting to me. There
also seemed to be a lot of repetition, or -- I should say more kindly --
overlap from one to the other book.
Overall, I'm very glad to have been with them, and often think of their Sufi
names. Yours is a good one! Do you think it suits you? Did you choose it, or
a teacher apply it? Both? ;-)
I remember, after 40 years, some of the Sufi prayers, esp. the short invocation
"Toward The One... ", which I also used as a mantra for a few months walking
around NYC, during which I also often fingered a short Mala of 33 dark-wood
beads, with a deep blue tassel, and white, irregular, polished Moonstone, my
birthstone. I bought it while at the Hungarian Pastry Shop for $2 from a
lovely Sufi in 1973 one day after our dancing at the Cathedral across the
street. I rarely use the Mala now, but it still suits me, and it is well
broken-in, by now. Lot of miles on it. ;-)
--Joe
> "salik888" <novelidea8@...> wrote:
>
> Interesting . . . this corresponds to roughly to the stations in Sufism, Fana
> being the final stage, empty, burned up . . . of course Sufism as has a
> so-called sober school. Hallaj would be an example of Fana.
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