Let the heavens be reflected on the earth, Lord, that the earth may turn into heaven. .Hazrat Inayat Khan

THE LIGHT OF GUIDANCE CENTER, NYC

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Listed here are some sites related to the Sufi tradition, and to the honoring of the essential unity of all the world's great mystical traditions.

The Ziraat Activity The work of Ziraat is deeply rooted in the esoteric teachings of the Sufi Order. The meaning of Ziraat is profound and mysterious, always revealing deeper and deeper levels. Its symbology derives from agriculture, from ploughing and cultivation of the land, from planting and caring for the seed until it becomes a fully blossoming plant. At one most basic level, Ziraat serves to remind us of our sacred relationship with the Creator and with nature, and the crucial need at this time to restore the fragile balance necessary to sustain life on this planet.

At another level, Ziraat informs us that the first place for the work of protecting the life around us is inside of us. Here, the farm symbolizes the mind, and Ziraat focuses on the purification of the mind and the restoration of our natural and true self. Here, the “work” of Ziraat consists of allowing all the old roots and stems of past harvests to be uprooted, in order that new life may emerge from the fertile earth of our souls. Here also, we come to recognize, by the action of the Divine in our lives, an intimate love relationship and alchemy.. http://www.Ziraat.org

The Sufi Order International-- Home page of the Order of which the Light of Guidance Center is an official center. This order was founded by Hazrat Inayat Khan, who brought Sufism from India to the West in the early 1900's. Tracing its origins within the Chistiyya tradition, the Order emerges out of a living stream of Divine guidance, passed from teacher to student for over 1300 years. http://www.sufiorder.org/

Universel-- A Course in Meditation-- teachings of Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan. http://www.theuniversel.net

 

Dance your sorrows away, dance yourself away. Dance your body to the floor, dance your soul to the sky, dance your thought into a whirlwind, dance your emotions into a spiral, dance your soul into the spirit..Each one is separated from the Beloved by the strength of the ego, and each is united to the Beloved by the strength of her/his love ............................Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

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The Light of Guidance Center of New York City offers classes, workshops, retreats and worship services, all devoted to humanity's awakening to its divinity. Here, all spiritual traditions are honored, recognized at streams of guidance offered by the One Being who seeks to be known most intimately in each of our hearts.The Light of Guidance Center is part of the Sufi Order International, started in 1910 by Sufi Master Hazrat Inayat Khan, who brought a message of spiritual freedom and intimacy with the Divine as the key to human understanding and the vehicle for rising above the distinctions and differences which divide us. The Light of Guidance Center representatives are Sharifa Norton-Smith (sharifanur@earthlink.net) and Muinuddin Smith muinuddin@verizon.net), and Una Manenti Pyle and Isa Pyle (pyle@mindspring.com). Please see the Calendar for the complete list of upcoming events.