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« Reply #165 on: May 13, 2018 11:58 am »


Eric Thank-You i am so grateful that you continue to bring this unique wisdom to us from
Hazrat Inayat Khan. It was not without his blessings that you are an instrument of his presence with us. This has made the forum very attractive and helpful spiritually speaking. I always come back to his wisdom and spiritual teachings and feel that i am connected to these teachings and sufism myself. Perhaps that is even how we were once together in the past my brother...i truly love u and am grateful for your presence and bringing this great spiritual guru to our site Eric.

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I am posting yesterday's saki. I found this to be one of the most important lessons for me right now. I am blown away by how aligned I am with the teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan  :)and how I came to discover Sufism in the first place. It is curious to me how I do not give more importance to the synchronistic experience's that strengthen faith in an unseen intelligent force. Here's to raising awareness. And on to the lesson....

There are plenty of tidbits/talking points in this one saki alone so I will focus on the thing that immediately stood out to me. But first



You can have all good things - wealth, friends, kindness, love to give and love to receive - once you have learned not to be blinded by them, learned to escape from disappointment, and from repugnance at the idea that things are not as you want them to be.

     Bowl of Saki, May 1, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

Do not expect much from friends. Why must they be as you want them to be? They are not made by you. They are as they are. You must try to be for them what they expect you to be. It matters little if your friend proves to you to be a friend. What matters is, if you prove to be a friend.

   from  https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/XII/XII_III_1.htm


However evolved we may be with our education and experience, yet what are we really seeking? Things from which we cannot derive any lasting gain. From these false things we gain the experience that the things to which we have hitherto attached importance and which we have valued are things that do not last. We learn at length that it would be wise to remember that all these objects and ideals and aspirations which we have in life should be judged according to whether they are dependable or not, lasting or not.

After we have perceived the truth that this or that is not to be depended upon, we find that it is not necessary to renounce them all, to give up everything in life. We can be in the crowd just as well as in seclusion in the wilderness. We can have all good things, wealth, friends, kindness, love to give and love to take once we have learned not to be blinded by them, learned to escape from disappointment, learned to escape from repugnance at the idea that the things are not as we would want them to be. A man can still attend to business, he may attain wealth, he can carry out all those things, but now his eyes are wide open; before, they were blind. This is the teaching of life. ...

It is not the actual literal renunciation which counts, it is the personal abandonment of belief in the importance of transient things. ... If there is such a thing as saintly renunciation, it is renouncing small gains for better gains; not for no gains, but seeing with open eyes what is better and what is inferior. Even if the choice has to lie between two momentary gains, one of these would always be found to be more real and lasting; that is the one that should be followed for the time. When we take the torch of wisdom to show us our path through life, we will end by realizing what is really profitable in life and what is not.

   from  https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VII/VII_15.htm



   ~~~ You can have all good things -- wealth, friends, kindness, love to give and love to receive -- once you have learned not to be blinded by them, learned to escape from disappointment, and from repugnance at the idea that things are not as you want them to be.

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Wow! At first I was hesitant when Inayat Khan says how we must try to be there for our friends even if they are not there for us.
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