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Raising Fund for Chittagong Landslide Victims 2007-07-02 05:24:00 Bangladesh faced a terrible tragedy on 11th June 2007. Indiscriminate hill cutting during the last three decades has led to the disappearance of over one hundred hills and partial destruction of hundreds others in Chittagong city, causing environmental hazards and raising the incidence of landslide, experts said. Landslide
s in last few days killed more than 100 people in the port city, raising such death toll during the last three decades to over 200.Arild Klokkerhaug is an entrepreneur, blogger and the man behind the largest Bangla blogging platform "Bandh Bhanger Awaaj". During this disaster he led from the front to show how the blog community could mobilize in a tragic situation like this. Arild and some other bloggers went to Chittagong and reported about the situation. Bangladeshi Bloggers, students from all over the world started raising funds for the victims.I am also a contributor in somewherein blog community and was involved in raising fund online immediately after the traged Read more:Raising
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Simple prayer of gratitude 2007-07-01 04:14:00 "Thank You" to our Beloved Who has given us all thatHe has given us;and not given us what He has not given us."If you manage only one prayer in your life, and that prayer is simply 'THANK YOU,' it will be sufficient." - Thomas Merton, catholic mystic.Therefore remember Me, I will remember you and give thanks to Me and be not ungrateful to Me. - The Quran 2:152... And remember your Lord proclaimed: "If ye give thanks, I will give you more" -The Quran 14:7... And the grateful ones shall be rewarded soon -The Quran 3:144One day, the Prophet Moses said in his invocation: "O God! You created Adam. How did he express gratefulness to Thee?" God replied: "He knew that everything came from Me."The first to be summoned to the Blissful Station, Paradise on the Day of Great Resurrection will be those who praise God in prosperity and in adversity. -Saying of the Blessed ProphetThe Holy Prophet is reported to have said: 'Praise be to God (alhamdu lillah)' is the beginning of thanksgiving, for t Read more:Simple
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turn your light inward to illuminate your self 2007-06-30 14:33:00 WIld Pepper Forest Originally uploaded by visualsamit. Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light
inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.- Dogen
The Whirling Wind of God | Sufi Sema 2007-06-30 02:48:00 Dervishes and Sufi singers have long been revered in the West, even as their practices have come under threat across the Islamic world. Peter Culshaw reports on a series of revelatory encounters with different mystics / published in 2005 / guardian unlimited It had taken me a week to track down the underground dervish scene in Istanbul - the only dervish contact I had in the city was a carpet-seller called Abdullah deep in the bazaar. As with all quests, the difficulty only added to the sense of occasion when I did manage to locate them. Finally I found myself at a zikr (a remembrance) among 80 or so dervishes in a hidden tekke (religious house), and they began to chant, rhythmically, the name of Allah. It was one of the most powerful sounds I have ever heard. In addition to a weaving violin and a zither that sends chills down your spine, there is a solo voice - similar to the muezzin's call from the minarets - that is full of heartbreaking longing. This is serious blues music, I tho
Sri Ramana Maharshi | Message and Teachings 2007-07-06 21:57:00 "Where can I go? I am here!"The great Maharshi found Himself within himself and then gave out to the world the grand but simple message of his great life, "Know Thyself"."Know Thyself. All else will be known to thee of its own accord. Discriminate between the undying, unchanging, all-pervading, infinite Atma and the ever-changing, phenomenal and perishable universe and body. Enquire, ‘Who am I?’Make the mind calm. Free yourself from all thoughts other than the simple thought of the Self or Atma. Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite ‘I’. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self." - This is the gist of the philosophy and teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi.Sri Ramana says, "The world is so unhappy because it is ignorant of the true Self. Man’s real nature is happiness. Happiness is inborn in the true Self. Man’s search for happiness is an unconscious search for his true Self. The true Self is imperishable; theref Read more:Message
The Power of Now and Relationship | Eckhart Tolle 2007-07-06 02:16:00 Be present as the watcher of your mind -- of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react. Notice also how often your attention is in the past or future. Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher.Humanity is under great pressure to evolve because it is our only chance of survival as a race. This will affect every aspect of your life and close relationships in particular. Never before have relationships been as problematic and conflict ridden as they are now. As you may continue to pursue the goal of salvation through a relationship, you will be disillusioned again and again.But if you Read more:Relationship
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i am home! 2007-07-05 20:50:00 Auras Originally uploaded by thepres6. You are a soul of my soul,A heart of my heart.Whenever I address youI am home!- Branka Matenhajm
Blessed Birthday of Inayat Khan 2007-07-05 03:01:00 Today, July 5 is the Birthday
of Sufi Master Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882 - 1927).The Indian mystic and musician Hazrat Inayat Khan, born on July 5, 1882, was the first teacher to bring Sufism, Islamic mysticism, to the West. He put the accent on the inner life and the annihilation of the false self. In his teachings, Khan emphasized the importance of developing what he called "the art of personality," which includes the following character qualities: respect, consideration, hospitality, humility, graciousness, tenderness of feeling, sympathy, moderation of speech, and modesty. The yearning for God, he taught, produces a way of life that is courteous and loving and thoughtful of others.He was born into one of the most musical families in the country. Inayat's grandfather, Maula Bakhsh, known as the 'Beethoven of India,' had become a master of the music of both North and South India, a feat hitherto considered impossible, and had then, at the invitation of the Maharaja Khanda Rao, settle Read more:Blessed
The Religion of Love 2007-07-04 08:18:00 Truly, those who are faithfuland do righteous deeds,the Compassionate One will endow with Love. - The Quran, Surah Maryam (19:96)Mevlana Rumi said, "The Religion
of Love is like no other." He did not wish to start a new religion but to reveal the essence of all religion, which is submission to God in love. All love leads towards God.All love is metaphor, a symbol of real love. It is not necessary to replace one religion or no religion with another, but to purify our religion and ourselves with love.In the religion of love we are not seeking love, because we know that love is not the goal or end, but the original and cause of everything. We are within this field of love. We only need to open up to it. Love created us. Love guides us. And we will all return to love, either willingly or unwillingly. We can go willingly and consciously, by realizing that love brought us here in the first place. Let us trust this truth. Let this be our starting point.All religion exist because Love is tryin
Power of Thought 2007-07-04 02:12:00 Thought draws the line of fate.~ Bowl of Saki by Sufi Master Inayat KhanCommentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan | As mind is naturally impressionable, that means that man is naturally impressionable too. Most often his illness, health, prosperity, failure, all depends upon the impressions on his mind. They say 'Lines of fate and death are on the head and palm,' but I would say that it is the impressions man has on his mind which decide his destiny. A person thinks, 'Some day I should like to build a factory.' At this time he has no money, no knowledge, no capability; but a thought came, 'Some day I should like to build a factory.' Then he thinks of something else. Perhaps years pass, but that thought has been working constantly through a thousand minds, and a thousand sources prepare for him that which he once desired. If we could look back to all we have thought of at different times, we would find that the line of fate or destiny, Kismet as it is called in the East, is formed b
On Remembrance of the Divine | Sufi Wisdom 2007-07-11 04:44:00 . If the name of the Divine
is uttered even once with the tongue, it is the remembrance of the tongue; if the Divine is remembered once with the heart, then that is equal to thirty five million utterances (dhikr, remembrance) of the tongue. Such is the dhikr of the heart. There are 35 million blood vessels in the body, and all are connected to the heart. If the Divine’s name is uttered even once (with the heart) then all the vessels utter it too.. In a river, a boat travels on the water and the greater the amount of water, the more at ease the boat will be. However if that very water enters the boat, it will capsize. The heart is as the boat and the sorrows and heartaches of the world are the water; everyone’s boat has sunk except that of the people of God - those who keep the remembrance - which always stays afloat.. God the Most High has created the heart for His remembrance, and has not created it for worries.. The body has been given to use, and not to nourish and make fat: You Read more:Remembrance
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Non-Duality | Thich Nhat Hanh 2007-07-10 20:45:00 The bell tolls at four in the morning.I stand by the window,barefoot on the cool floor.The garden is still dark.I wait for the mountains and rivers to reclaim their shapes.There is no light in the deepest hours of the night.Yet, I know you are therein the depth of the night,the immeasurable world of the mind.You, the known, have been thereever since the knower has been.The dawn will come soon,and you will seethat you and the rosy horizonare within my two eyes.It is for me that the horizon is rosyand the sky blue.Looking at your image in the clear stream,you answer the question by your very presence.Life is humming the song of the non-dual marvel.I suddenly find myself smilingin the presence of this immaculate night.I know because I am here that you are there,and your being has returned to show itselfin the wonder of tonight's smile.In the quiet stream,I swim gently.The murmur of the water lulls my heart.A wave serves as a pillowI look up and seea white cloud against the blue sky,the s Read more:Duality
Love is already there within oneself 2007-07-09 23:33:00 "To love is not to look at each other, but to look in the same direction." - Antoine de St. ExuperyAll of us need to love. We need something beautiful, true and good, and we are looking for the beautiful, the true, and the good. We feel that these things don’t exist in us, that what is really beautiful, what is really true, and what is really good, is not in us. Therefore we look for it, and sometimes we feel that we have found the object of our love. The person before us is a symbol of what is beautiful, of what is true, and we fall in love with that person. We have found the object of our love.There are two things to be looked at. The first is the impression that this beauty, this truth, this goodness, is not in us. The second thing is that we feel that what we are looking for must be outside us, and therefore we feel that this person is the object of our love, and we feel satisfied and happy. That is the foundation of our love, but after a time we discover reality is not what we t Read more:within
Yunus Emre | Love and be Loved 2007-07-09 06:23:00 Yunus Emre was a thirteenth century mystic from Anatolia, Turkey. He was but one of the thousands of Sufi dervishes of Islam, but he played an outstanding role in Turkish culture, literature and philosophy.During his youth when Yunus Emre lived with his mother in this village, he found himself in a kind of ghariblik, a strangeness, a loneliness and sorrow caused by the separation from Haqq, from God. Yunus traveled through towns, climbed mountains and walked across the steppes, but he did not find anyone like himself, weeping and moaning because of the longing in his heart. The fire of this yearning for the Beloved burned him by day and by night, although his words spoke only of love, tears of love flowing from his eyes, and still he was unable to find his Beloved.The more his sorrow increased, the lonelier he became in a crowd. This loneliness, even among other people, was his sole friend; he was now the close friend of those who sorrow. In his village, if someone had sorrow and was i
Gayatri Mantra | the Supreme Mantra of Veda 2007-07-08 07:51:00 ~Om Bhoor Bhuvah SvahTat Savitur VarenyamBhargo Devasya DheemahiDhiyo Yonah Prachodayaat.~We meditate on the splendor of the Creator;Who has manifested the Worlds;Who alone is worthy of Worship;Who is the embodiment of Knowledge and Light;Who is the remover of all duality and ignorance;May He awaken us. ~The Gayatri Mantra
is a highly revered mantra in Hinduism, second only to the mantra Om. The Gayatri Mantra is first recorded in the Rig Veda which was written in Sanskrit about 2500 to 3500 years ago, and by some reports, the mantra may have been chanted for many generations before that. "Gayatri Mantra" might be translated as: a prayer of praise that awakens the vital energies and gives liberation.Humble Submission and Selfless Unity | Many of the greatest prayers, such as the Gayatri Mantra from the ancient rishis of India, the Fatiha which was received by the prophet Muhammad, and the Lord's Prayer which was given to us by Jesus, all share some magnificent similarities, illustrati Read more:Supreme
Complete Human Being | Spiritual Qualities 2007-07-07 12:29:00 . Self-KnowledgeThe degree to which we know ourselves - our weakness, limitations, characteristics, motivations.. Self-ControlThe ability to guide and transcend the promptings of the self.. Objective KnowledgeA knowledge that is in accord both with the practical needs of life and an objective Reality that can be known through an awakened and purified heart.. Inner WisdomThe ability to accesss guidance and meaning from within oneself.. BeingThe capacity to remain in a state of presence, to consciously witness experience.. Selfless loveA love for God and His creations without selfish motives.. Sustaining the Divine PerspectiveThe ability to always see events and peopel from the highest perspective of Love and Unity and not to slip into egoistic judgement and opinion.. Divine IntimacyAwareness of one's connection of the Divine Source.. quoted from Knowing Heart by Kabir Helminskiyou may read essays from the Knowing Heart here.+ related posts:. Idea for Complete Man. From limiation to per
The Book of Mirdad | shedding light on the secret of male and female 2007-07-14 12:14:00 No love is Love that subjugates the Lover.No love is Love that feeds on flesh and blood.No love is Love that draws a woman to a man only to breedmore women and men and thus perpetuate their bondage to the flesh.The Overcomer do I speach - The Phoenix-man who is too free to be male, too sublimated to be a female. As in the denser spheres of Life the male and the female are one, so are they one in Life's rarer spheres. The interval between is but a segment in eternity dominated by the illusion of Duality. Those who can see neither before nor aft believe this segment of eternity to be itself Eternity. They cling to the delusion of Duality as if it were of Life its very core and essence, not knowing that the rule of Life is Unity.The Overcomer do I preach - Man unified and master of himself. Man made a prisoner by the love of a woman, and a woman made prisoner by the love of man are equally unfit for Freedom's precious crown. But man and woman made as one by love, inseparable , indistngu Read more:shedding
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Light Prayer of Muhammad, the Last Messenger 2007-07-14 11:50:00 O God! Grant me Light in my heart,Light in my grave,Light in front of me, Light behind me,Light to my right, Light to my left,Light above me, Light below me,Light in my ears, Light in my eyes,Light on my skin, Light in my hair,Light within my flesh, Light in my blood,Light in my bones.O God! Increase my Light everywhere.O God! Grant me Light in my heart,Light on my tongue, Light in my eyes, Light in my ears,Light to my right, Light to my left,Light above me, Light below me,Light in front of me, Light behind me,and Light within my self; increase my Light.~Its a prayer of Prophet Muhammad
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of God. May God's eternal peace and blessings be upon him. This prayer was loved by Mevlana Rumi as well and it has been recited daily by Mevlevi dervishes, both men and women for centuries.Image credit: Light and a prayer via mysticlens Read more:Prayer
Death and the Dervish | tale from a Bosnian Sufi 2007-07-14 01:13:00 Bismilâhir-Rahmanir-Rahim!I call to witness the ink,the quill, and the script,which flows from the quillI call to witness the faltering shadows of the sinking evening,the night and all she enlivens;I call to witness the moon when she waxes, and the sunrisewhen it dawnsI call to witness the Resurrection day and the soulthat accuses itself;I call to witness time, the beginning and endof all things - to witness that every man always suffers loss.I BEGIN MY STORY FOR NOTHING, WITHOUT BENEFIT FOR myself or anyone else, from a need stronger than benefit or reason. I must leave a record of myself, the chronicled anguish of my inner conversations, in the vague hope that a solution will be found when all accounts have been settled (if they may ever be), when I have left my trail of ink on this paper, which lies in front of me like a challenge. I do not yet know what will be written here. But in the strokes of these letters at least some of what was in me will remain, no longer to perish in edd
Blog of the Day Award 2007-07-13 22:21:00 Inspirations and Creative Thoughts is awarded the Blog of the Day Award
s for Saturday July 14, 2007 by Famous Blogs - Top Blog Awards - 2007 Weblog Awards.About Best Blog Awards | Blog of the Day Awards offers the best selection of weblogs and famous blogs on a variety of topics. Selection of Best Blogs of the Day is usually done a few days ahead of time based on nominations up to that point. Criteria include content, quality, creativity, and the personal opinion of the judges. visit blog of the day award site.cheers!
Meditative Quranic Verse | Divine Reality 2007-07-13 03:43:00 Allahu la ilaha illa huwalahu al-asmao alhusnatransliterationAllah! there is no other divine reality but That!His are the most Beautiful Divine
Attributes.- The Quran 20:08 Note: For reasons soley for simplicity, the masculine pronoun He or His is used to refer the Great Beloved God. The Absolute Truth and Absolute Reality is neither masculine, nor feminine. As must as It has a Divine masculine side, so It has an awe-inspiring feminine aspect.Related post: Quranic verses that encourage Meditation:: Previous posts on this series | Meditative
Quranic Verse+ 1: God and Human heart+ 2: Overflowing Love+ 3: Divine Promise+ 4: Exclusive Devotion+ 5: We are in need+ 6: Choose a way unto the Lord+ 7: Life of this world and hereafter+ 8: Wisdom is a Divine grace
The Arts of Islam | Art unites humankind 2007-07-12 11:49:00 God is Beauty and loves the Beautiful - Prophetic saying.In Islam
beauty is seen as a quality of the divine, and is frequently expressed through the use of vibrant colours in illuminated manuscripts often unparalleled by other artistic cultures; superb and intricate designs and most importantly, the use of beautiful and often highly complex calligraphy not only as a tool of decoration but also as an expression of faith.‘The very word Islam casts both light and shadow over our contemporary world. I believe there has never been a greater need for the wealth and imagination of Islamic cultures and artistic heritage to be revealed. The power of art can open our minds. One is indeed moved to consider how our modern world would be blessed if it could be rid of the radical religious fundamentalisms that so distort faiths and derail the causes of humanity and tolerance. Such musings would, I suspect, find a sympathetic ear in the one individual above all who has made this exceptional exhibit
nobody really 2007-07-12 08:20:00 Open Originally uploaded by Shamanyx. nobody i was.as nobody, i comenobody i remain.andnobodywill i become.(c) MysticSaint12 july 2007Singapore
Abida Parveen | Her Thoughts and Aphorisms 2007-07-12 05:18:00 . Love for the Supreme Being is higher than any religion. Mazhab was made by man, 'Mohabbat' by God.. God's love is for all.That is Faizan-e-Mohabbat.But Irfan-e-Mohabbat, profound comprehension of love for the Almighty - is for the chosen few.. Everything which one does with the thought of Almighty is a prayer. Not just sufi songs but even looking after your mother is `ibadat'. Similarly, providing water to the thirsty is worship.. Within every person there is a mirror - "ek chashma hai, jo Khuda ke dhyan se jura hua hai." It may be misted over, but the way to make it clear again, she explains, is through "dard", pain, which is the "dehleez" or threshold that the Sufi seeker attempts to cross. Whoever wants to light the lamp can go to that threshold. You have to meditate, or at least think, on it.. That Light, which "has nothing to do with religion circulates everywhere". Since it is everywhere, the only people who get agitated, overly-worried, are the ones with attachment to the
One | The Project | The Movie 2007-07-16 11:07:00 What happens when a middle-aged trial attorney and father of three wakes in the night with an idea to make an independent film about the meaning of life? Ward M. Powers, with no experience at all in filmmaking, mail-ordered a video camera and set off with his best friend and a cousin on a two-year life-changing experience.Inspired by Joseph Campbell’s maxim: “Follow your bliss,” and with no budget or training, they took to the streets to film ordinary people responding to life’s ultimate questions. They started with twenty questions, among them: What is the meaning of life? Describe God. What are we all so afraid of? How does one obtain true peace? What is your one wish for the world? Eventually the filmmakers got up the nerve to ask their questions of spiritual teachers, yogis, philosophers, authors, artists, priests, rabbis, imams, monks, nuns, medicine men, social architects and scholars, including Robert Thurman, Ram Dass, Thich Nhat Hanh, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Barbara Ma Read more:Project
Ringing of the Bards | Storming the Bastille this time 2007-07-16 00:11:00 Tile Aisha Ansari from Knocking from Inside has hosted the newest edition of Ringing of the Bards Carnival. There are some nice poems gathered in the carnival. Also marking the Bastille Day, Ringing of the Bards has some contributions on the subject of freedom.Don't forget Tiel's Short Thought also.[>>] Check the Carnival here.:: Ringing of the Bards - The Poetry Carnival"And there are among them composers of verses whom they call Bards; these singing to instruments similar to a lyre, applaud some, while they vituperate others." - Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian, 90-21 BC.
Reflection on Gita | Real Refuge 2007-07-15 09:09:00 "The Lord dwells in the hearts of all beings. Take refuge in Him with all thy heart, by His grace shalt thou attain supreme peace and the eternal abode. Thus has wisdom more profound than all profundities been declared to thee by Me. Reflecting over it fully, act as thou likest."- Bhagavad Gita,the Divine Song of God. 18:61-63Sri Ramakrishna, may God sanctify his secrets, used to say, "We should not ask God for the things of the world. Suppose He grants them. The material things may bring trouble to us."When we approach this great Boon-Giver, we should never ask Him for worldly things connected with personal wishes and desires. We may approach the Lord just for saving our souls from getting drowned in the ocean of worldliness and infatuation for material things. Ordinarily if we feel unhappy, we would rather adjust ourselves to our unhappiness and cling to our desires and fancies than change our ways and come to Truth and Bliss. We are so body-bound that we stress physical enjo
Madinah 2007-07-19 11:59:00 Roza-e-Rasool Muhammad Salal la ho alahi wasalemOriginally uploaded by ZAK!. That dust on which Prophet set his feet.For us is better than a heavenly seat.Sky was hurt deeply by the sharp irony.When Earth said, "Madinah is located on me"Prophet described Ali as "dust’s father"Who is our wise guide and brave leader.O seekers! Walk humbly in right earnestUnder this earth is our Prophet’s place of rest.- by Imam Ahmad Rida Khanmay God bless his soul.note / Madinah or Medina is where Prophet Muhammad's tomb is located. may God shower infinite blessings upon the Prophet.
Spiritual Marriage and Love 2007-07-19 01:37:00 Then Almitra spoke again and said, "And what of Marriage, master?"And he answered saying:"You were born together,and together you shall be forevermore.You shall be together whenwhite wings of death scatter your days.Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.But let there be spaces in your togetherness,And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.Love one another but make not a bond of love:Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.Sing and dance together and be joyous,but let each one of you be alone,Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.And stand together, yet not too near together:For the pillars of the temple stand apart,And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow".
Divine is the All Seeing 2007-07-17 21:10:00 Morning Stretch Originally uploadedby disneymike."The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness.Without the body and the mind,the trees couldn't see themselves.Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us.Without this instrument,the tree doesn't get to see itself.We are the sensing instruments of the Divine
."- AdyashantiMysticSaint Thoughts: Although Adyashanti is using the tree analogy here to help us understand our sacredness, our oneness and our being the instrument, it is not to be wrongly interpreted that the Divine has limitations. Divine is beyond limitations. In Islamic theology this being the instrument of the Divine is what signifies "the servanthood".There is none in the heavens and the earth but cometh unto the Divine, the Most Gracious as a servant. - The Quran 19:93From the teachings of Islam, servanthood is synonymous to instrument. Thus the Divine and the whole of created manifestation is like the Lord and His servan Read more:Seeing
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