Monthly Archives: September 2011

From The Alone with the Alone Page with some comments

September 30, 2011
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From The Alone with the Alone Page with some comments

I came across this passage from the Upanishads on The Alone with the Alone page adn I thought to add another germane quote. Enjoy Dave The world is the wheel of God, turning round And round with all living creatures upon its rim. The world is the river of God, Flowing from him and flowing…

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How we, myself included, like to fool ourselves (2) A Readers responce

September 30, 2011
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Hello Friends, from time to time I like to share some thing with you all. Personal anecdotes from my life. Lessons from the path and other things. In part to keep myself honest and also secondly to present  some aspects of the path that is not talked about much. I think there is a lot…

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Spirituality and Sexuality (2) taken from Forty Days: The Diary of a Traditional Solitary Sufi Retreatby Micahela Ozelsel

September 30, 2011
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Even from the scientific point of view, various approaches to investigating the connection between spirituality and erotic experience are increasingly being explored. Arya points out that physiological conenctions with the nasal breathing cycle: According to the classic Yoga literature, both durign orgasm and in the deepest meditative state of samadhi, both nostril are open. The…

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Riding the Bull, A Nasruddin Story

September 30, 2011
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Riding the Bull, A Nasruddin Story

Nasruddin had an ox with horns shaped like a bow. He had always wanted to sit between the horns and ride the ox but he was too afraid. One day he saw the ox sleeping, he approached it quietly and managed to sit between the horns but the animal was startled, it shook itself and…

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A Reader Prays for me to burn in Hell

September 30, 2011
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A Reader Prays for me to burn in Hell

I have been fortunate in that I have not received too many negative comments on the blog. But today I received the following comment from someone called simply ‘no important’ to my posting Another excerpt from Dogs from a Sufi point of View by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh Subhana Allah! What kind of religion do you follow?…

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Spirituality and Sexuality taken from Forty Days: The Diary of a Traditional Solitary Sufi Retreatby Micahela Ozelsel

September 30, 2011
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Brief Thoughts Dr. Ozelsel’s book is truly tremendous not just for anyone interested in the sufi tradition. It touches on teh rich relationship between the seen and the unseen, between the struggles of realizing our true divinity while living, growing old, raising a family and all the things we do. The book is broken into…

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