Murshida Stephanie Nuria Sabato
Meditations on the Message is a Meditation Retreat that focuses on the teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan.
The Training the Mental Ego, Part 2
December 10, 2011
Hazrat Inayat Khan on the subject of the The Training the Mental Ego. The training of this [mental] ego requires more care than the training of the other [physical] ego, for it is more difficult and a subtler matter to be aware of the desires of the mind and to weigh them than to be aware of and to weigh the desires of the body. No doubt vanity is natural to the ego and the ego is natural to every human being. But there are desires of the mind that are necessary and there are desires of the mind that are not necessary. And the more one controls the ego the more one allows the virtues and merits that are in one's heart to manifest. This ego gives a false idea of greatness, but the effacement of this ego results in the true greatness.
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- Opening Musical Meditation: The Zikar of Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Prayers: Sufi Invocation
- Contemplation: Invocation of the Master, Saints, and Prophets
- Contemplation: What is the purpose of my life?
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume 1, Way of Illumination, The Purpose of Life
- Reading: Illuminated Rumi, Coleman Barks and Michael Green
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Morals 2.7, The
- Training the Mental Ego, by Hazrat Inayat KhanReading: Sufi Message
- Volume XIII, The Gathas, Morals Part 1.9, The Training of the Ego: The
- Three Parts of the Ego by Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Practice: Ya Ghafar, Ya Ghafur, Ya Tawwab, Ya Afuw
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Morals 2.7, The Training the Mental Ego, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Reading Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Morals Part 1.9, The Training of the Ego: Three Stages Through Which the Ego Develops by Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Morals 2.7, The Training the Mental Ego, by Hazrat Inayat Khan Reading: Githa II, 10. Ryazat Esotericsm, (Unpublished Esoteric Paper) The Attainment of Inner Being by Kasab
- Practice: Kasab Breath with concentration on the Inner Light
- Reading: Illuminated Rumi, Coleman Barks and Michael Green, page 40
- Reading: 365 Tao, Daily Meditations by Deng Ming-Dao
- Reading: Twenty Jataka Tales by Noor Inayat-Khan, The Quarrelsome Quails
- Closing Prayer: Khatum
- Dedication of Merit
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The Training the Mental Ego, Part 1
November 12, 2011
Hazrat Inayat Khan on the subject of the The Training the Mental Ego. The first form of the ego is that which the body helps to form and the next is that which is formed by the mind. This aspect of the ego lives for vanity, which causes a person to do good and also to do evil.
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- Opening Musical Meditation: The Zikar of Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Prayers: Sufi Invocation and Salat
- Contemplation: Invocation of the Master, Saints, and Prophets
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Morals 2.7, The Training the Mental Ego, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Morals Part 1.8, The Training of the Ego: Vanity by Hazrat Inayat Khan (para 1)
- Reading: Githa II, 10. Ryazat, Esotericsm, (Unpublished Esoteric Paper) The Attainment of Inner Being by Kasab
- Practice: Kasab Breath with concentration on the Inner Light
- Meditation after Kasab
- Closing Prayer: Khatum Dedication of Merit Donations grateful received to support this website in service to the Message.
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The Ego Is Trained As a Horse
September 10, 2011
Hazrat Inayat Khan on the subject of the The Ego is Trained as a Horse. Often, when man does wrong, it is not that he likes to do wrong, but that he is not able to prevent himself from acting in that way. In the first place, wrongdoing is almost always the consequence of the appetites and passions, or for the gratification of vanity.
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- Opening Musical Meditation: The Zikar of Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Prayers: Sufi Invocation and Salat
- Contemplation: Invocation of the Master, Saints, and Prophets
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Morals 2.6, The Training the Ego as a Horse, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Reading: The Attainment of Inner Being by Kasab, by Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished)
- Practice: Kasab Breath to develop mastery
- Reading: Metaphysics, Personal Power, by Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished)
- Practice: Surrender of human will to Divine Will.
(Breathe Out): Not my will, (Breath In) Thy Will. - Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Morals 2.6, The Training the Ego as a Horse, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Reading: Metaphysics, Personal Power, by Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished)
- Practice: Surrender of human will to Divine Will.
(Breathe Out): Not my will, (Breath In) Thy Will.
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Morals 2.6, The Training of the Ego: Training the Ego as a Horse.
- Practice: Surrender of human will to Divine Will.
(Breathe Out): Not my will, (Breath In) Thy Will. - Reading: Twenty Jataka Tales by Noor Inayat-Khan, The Noble Horse
- Closing Prayer: Khatum
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Training the Ego, Refraining from Free Impulses
August 13, 2011
Hazrat Inayat Khan on the subject of the The Training of the Ego: Training by Refraining from Free Impulses. The wise, knowing the nature of the ego is to rise and to move and to disturb the atmosphere, practice in their lives to restrain the ego from its free impulses.
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- Opening Musical Meditation: The Zikar of Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Prayers: Sufi Invocation and Salat
- Contemplation: Invocation of the Master, Saints, and Prophets
- Practice: Kasab Breath (Alternate Nostril Breathing)
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Morals 2.5, The Training of the Ego: Training by Refraining from Free Impulses by Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Practice: Singing Estaferrallah is an invocation of Divine Protection meaning Allah please forgive me, Allah please hide away my faults, Allah please watch over me and protect me from faults. "I bask in the purifying Presences of God".
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume XI.3, Psychology, Suggestions Through Impression and Belief, (The Story of Ayaz) by Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Morals 2.5, The Training of the Ego: Training by Refraining from Free Impulses by Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Reading: Physicians of the Heart, by Sufi Ruhaniat International, Subhanallah, Page 244. Application of Subhanallah used by a Physican of the Heart. Promotes inner healing. Helps to overcome defenses.
Supports transcendence over limitations.Aids in returning to the source as well as an infinite or continuous circumambulation of the center. And it also carries the meaning of a deeper and deeper penetration to the source of all. - Everything is revolving in love around God. There is not a thing in all the universes, heavens, and earths that doesn't say Subhanallah.
- Practice: Recitation of Subhanallah
- Practice Fikr, breath with sacred phrase - Subhan (in breath) Allah (out breath)
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Morals 2.5, The Training of the Ego: Training by Refraining from Free Impulses
- Reading: Spiritual Liberty by Hidayat Inayat-Khan
- Practice: Zikar of Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Closing Prayer: Khatum
- Dedication of Merit
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The Training of the Ego: A Science and an Art
June 11, 2011
In the words of Hazrat Inayat Khan: When man stands on the same plane as the other, then he is subject to the influence of the other ego. But if he rises above it, then every effort of the other ego falls flat.
- Opening Music: Zikar of Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Prayers: Sufi Invocation
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Morals 2.4, The Training of the Ego: Training Is As Well a Science As an Art, Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Reading: An Introduction to a Message in our Time, Hidayat Inayat-Khan, Injustice in Justice and Not to Be is to Be.
- Practice: Estaferrallah is an invocation of Divine Protection meaning Allah please forgive me, Allah please hide away my faults, Allah please watch over me and protect me from faults. "I bask in the purifiying Presences of God".
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Morals 2. 4, The Training of the Ego: Training Is As Well a Science As an Art, Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Reading: Physicians of the Heart, by Sufi Ruhaniat International, Subhanallah, Alhumdullilah, Allahu Akbar
- Practice: Elemental Breaths - Subhanallah, Alhumdullilah, Allahu Akbar
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Morals 2. 4, The Training of the Ego: Training Is As Well a Science As an Art, Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Practice: Ya Sabur, The Patiently- Enduring and The Most Restrained
The One who is most patient, steadfast, and enduring. The One who is not moved by haste to carry out any action before it's proper time.
The One who patiently endures and does everything in its proper time and proper manner, no matter how long that may take.
The One who patiently accomplishes each thing in its proper time, in the way it needs to be and according to what it requires.
From the root s-b-r which has the following classical Arabic connotations:to be patient, to be enduring
to endure trial or affliction with good manner
to be contented in trial or affliction without show of complaint
to make no distinction between comfort and affliction
to bear calmly, to persevere cheerfully
to be steadfast, constant
to restrain, confine, restrain, withhold from something - Reading: Physicians of the Heart, by Sufi Ruhaniat International
- Reading: Twenty Jataka Tales by Noorunnissa Inayat-Khan, "The Patient Buffalo"
- Closing Prayer: Khatum
- Dedication of Merit
- Generosity and Support
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The Two Sides of the Human Ego
April 9, 2011
- Musical Meditation
- Prayers: Sufi Invocation
- Contemplation: Invocation of the Master, Saints, and Prophets
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Morals 2.3, The Two Sides of the Human Ego
- Reflection: From the Complete Sayings by Hazat Inayat Khan
Make my vision clear, make my mind still.
Kindle my heart, God, and illuminate my soul.
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Morals 2.3, The Two Sides of the Human Ego
Practices: Elemental Breaths, The influence of one element upon the other, and the relationship to qualities within a human being.
Ghafir, veils our faults from the eyes of others.
Ghafar, keeps the knowledge of our faults even from the angels.
Ghaffur, relieves us from the suffering of continual remembrance of our faults.
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Morals 2.3, The Two Sides of the Human Ego
Readings and Reflections: - Heaven and hell are the material manifestation of agreeable and disagreeable thoughts. (Gayan, Hazrat Inayat Khan)
- A learned man without will power is like a head without a body. (Vadan, Hazrat Inayat Khan)
- A pure conscience gives one the strength of lions, and by a guilty conscience even lions are turned into rabbits. (Vadan, Hazrat Inayat Khan)
- Closing Prayer Khatum
- Dedication of Merit
- Request for Your Generosity and Support
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Training the Ego by Abstinence
March 12, 2011
- Prayers & Words: Sufi Invocation led by Murshid Hidayat Inayat-Khan
- Contemplation: Invocation of the Master, Saints, and Prophets
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Morals 2.2, The Training by Abstinence
- Reflection: From the Vadan by Hazat Inayat Khan
To express an impulse gives relief, but to control it gives strength. - Review: Sufi Message Volume XIII, Gathas, Part 8, The Training of the Ego: Vanity
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Morals 2.2, The Training by Abstinence
- Reflection and Readings: Replacing the thought of self: wazifa, zikar, mantra yoga
- Sufi Message Volume 4, The Mind-World, 3. Wazifa
- Sufi Message Volume 2, Mysticism of Sound and Music
Nr. 6. The Mystery of Color and Sound 2
Nr. 7. The Spiritual Significance of Color and Sound - Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Morals 2.2, The Training by Abstinence
- Practice: Ya Nur/Ya Hayy (Oh Divine Light / Oh Divine Life)
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Morals 2.2, The Training by Abstinence
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume 2, Cosmic Language, 8. Will, Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Morals 2.2, The Training by Abstinence
- Reflection: God and the devil are the two extreme poles of the ego. One represents perfection, the other limitation. (Vadan, Hazrat Inayat Khan)
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Morals 2.2, The Training by Abstinence
- Reading: The Zikar Manual of the International Sufi Movement (not public), The Practice of the External Zikar, Hidayat Inayat-Khan
- Practice: External Zikar
- Practice: Practice of Zikar anf Fikar
- Closing Prayer: Khatum
- Dedication
- Request for Your Generosity and Support
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The Sufi Message of
Universal Brother/Sisterhood of Hazrat Inayat Khan
February 12, 2011
- Welcome and Introduction to Webcast
- Background: Last Saturday's (February 5th, 2011) Visalat Day online participation exceeded our expectations and showed us the limits of skype technology. Seeking new ways to open up further online access
Subject: The Universal Brotherhood/Sisterhood Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan - Prayers: Invocation of Masters, Saints, and Prophets. Sufi Invocation of Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Reading: Complete Works of Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan, Original Texts: Lectures on Sufism, Volume 1, 1923, Series 3, Githa 6, Dhyana Meditation
- Commentary: Introduction to Gita Dhyana
- Commentary: Historic Explanation of the title Gita Dhyana
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume 1, The Way of Illumination, The Sufi, Hazrat Inayat Khan
- (In Murshid's own words, He asks, "Is Sufism Muslim?")
- Practice: From the Sufi Prayer Salat by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Breathe In: Thy Light is in All Forms
Breathe Out: Thy Love in All Beings - Reading: Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan delivered over the American Radio
- Practice: From the Sufi Prayer Khatum by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Breathe In: Raise Us Above
Breathe Out: the Distinctions and Differences Which Divide (men/us - Reading: Social Gathekas Nr. 19, Sufi Mysticism, V: Realizing the Truth of Religion, Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Practice: From the Sufi Prayer Khatum by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Breathe In: Disclose to us Thy Divine Light
Breathe Out: Disclose to us Thy Divine Light - Reading: Religious Gathekas Nr. 42, Belief and Disbelief in God by Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Practice: From the Sufi Prayer Khatum by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Breathe In: Unite us all in Thy Perfect Being
Breathe Out: Unite us all in Thy Perfect Being - Reading: Religious Gathekas Nr. 32, The God Ideal (2) by Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Practice: From the Sufi Prayer Khatum by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Breathe In: Unite Us All in Thy Perfect Being
Breathe Out: Unite Us All in Thy Perfect Being - Reading: Complete Works of Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan, Original Texts: Lectures on Sufism, Volume 1, 1923, Series 3, Githa 6, Dhyana Meditation
- Reading: Social Gathekas Nr. 23, Working for the Sufi Message by Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Closing: God Bless Us All and United Us All , Worldwide, Heart to Heart, Mind to Mind, Practice to Practice His Perfect Being. Thank you for being a part of the experiment - new dimensions in Spreading the Message.
- Q & A / Discussion with Participants (not recorded)
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February 5th, 2011 - 84th Visalat Day
February 5, 2011
(Due to a world wide skype attendance, the communications lines were overloaded; therefore, video appears to break up at times, and becomes still nevertheless the Message is wonderful!)
- Silent Meditation (not recorded)
- Lecture: Murshid Hidayat Inayat-Khan on Hazrat Inayat Khan and the Meaning of Zikar. Read text of Murshid Hidayat's Talk
- Prayer: Sufi Invocation
- Readings: Complete Works of Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan, Original Texts: Lectures on Sufism, Volume 1, 1923, Series 3, Githa 6, Dhyana Meditation. "The brotherhood [and sisterhood] of Sufis is not determined by time or space. Unity is beyond all limitations. When the heart overflows with love, the body and mind are charged with magnetism and so great is the power of this magnetism that it can benefit others thousands of miles away. Yes, it is possible to concentrate on loved ones and through Meditation, when one is bathed in the Ocean of Divine Love, such factors as distance and time do not matter."
- Sufi Message Volume VII, In an Eastern Rose Garden, "The Four Paths which Lead to the Goal", 4. Devotion (Saint) "The path of devotion teaches selflessness; it makes one unselfish. Devotion is the tuning of the heart to its natural pitch; in other words, the healthiest condition possible in man is that in which devotion has blossomed."
Practice: Singing Zikar of Hazrat Inayat Khan, (not recorded). - Available CD Zikar, Special Edition
- Silence: Absorption in the atmosphere of Zikar (not recorded)
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume VII, In an Eastern Rose Garden,"The Four Paths which Lead to the Goal", 4. Devotion (Saint).
- Commentary: Murshida Nuria on the subject of Zikar
- Reading: Complete Works of Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan, Original Texts: Lectures on Sufism, Volume 1,1924. Mureeds Class by Hazrat Inayat Khan, Attitude Towards the Practices and Towards the Movement on the subject of the Sufi Prayers Saum and Salat.
- Reading: Personal Letters and postcards from Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan to His Children.
- Reading: Once Upon a Time, Early Days Stories About My Beloved Father and Mother, Three Ultimate Sentences of MurshidBy Hidayat Inayat-Khan. Available through Sufimovement.org
- Request for Your Generosity and Support
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