77 - Practices Based On Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan's Teaching

Cosmic

We occupy only as much horizon as we are conscious of. Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

1)         Simply envisioning the starry sky has the effect of expanding our consciousness.

2)         Also identifying with our magnetic field, and particularly with our aura, is consciousness expanding. However, Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan draws our attention to our need to hold this magnetism while expanding it. This means: consciously radiating while avoiding dispersing the energy thus generated. Action develops magnetism, but repose controls it. This is why active people always develop their magnetism but without being able to hold it. It is like earning money from one side, spending it on the other, and always being without.

3)         Applying Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan's teaching, we explore further horizons.

4)         After the manner of the Sufis, we always envision ourselves as a ramification of the One and Only Being.

5)         This has the effect of expanding our sense of identity. For example, envision that it is the divine power that is coming through you and you will feel a wider expanse of power extending in your outreach. Likewise with the extent of your compassion, or the reach of your awareness.

6)         Concurrently, you will gain a clearer sense of your influence on the people you are involved with as well as the prevailing circumstances and your physical environment.

7)         By being aware of your outreach, your impact on your social and physical environment and life circumstances will increase.

Every individual has his own world, and the world of one individual is as tiny as a grain of lentil, ant that of another as large as the whole world. Every soul has its domain in life, consisting of all it possesses and of all who belong to it. This domain is as wide as the width of the soul's influence. It is so to speak a mechanism that works by the thought-power of each individual soul. The above is an outline that is the first in a series. The next ones will deal with turning inwards, the transcendent reach, and the overview. Then the practices will address working with intuition, using creative imagination, and working with the glance. Eventually we'll explore clues to the meaning of the names of God in Murshid's rendering of Sufism.

            The above is an outline that is the first in a series. The next ones will deal with turning inwards, the transcendent reach, and the overview. Then the practices will address working with intuition, using creative imagination, and working with the glance. Eventually we'll explore clues to the meaning of the names of God in Murshid's rendering of Sufism.
