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Now let us be silent
So that the Giver of Speech may speak.
Let us be silent
So we can hear Him calling us
secretly in the night.
-- from Ghazal 1713, Version by Jonathan Star
"Rumi - In the Arms of the Beloved "
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, New York 1997
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Why
silent Zikr?
The
very essence of the self is the illusion that we can ‘do’..
That
illusion is the single source our separation and alienation.
The
goal of zikr is to pass through the veil of separation and dissolve
into The One.
But
whatever ‘doing’ we engage in necessarily prolongs the illusion
of a ‘doer’. There is nothing the self can ‘do’ to cease its
‘doing’.
So
let us now begin the silent discipline of ‘not-doing’,
and
hope to receive at last the gift of ‘non-doing’.
(Frank
Parmir)
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We're
going to do (or not do) a different sort of zikr this month.
Please
join us starting at 7:30 on Saturday, November 25 at 1000 Urlin Ave.
Apt. 1809
Likely
followed by dessert and tea, you are welcome to bring something or
nothing.
Contact
Hilal for more information at 614-446-3337 or hilal1001@sbcglobal.net
