Compassion and Forgiveness
Do you sympathize with others? Or when you see someone struggling do you look away, trying to ignore their difficulties, attempting perhaps to maintain your focus on your own affairs? The Continue Reading →
hearing the message of spiritual liberty
Do you sympathize with others? Or when you see someone struggling do you look away, trying to ignore their difficulties, attempting perhaps to maintain your focus on your own affairs? The Continue Reading →
Having spoken of the experience of the returning soul in the sphere of the jinn, Hazrat Inayat Khan now begins to illustrate the experience in the sphere of the angels. Continue Reading →
It happened once upon a time, in the little village of Chelm, that a woman preparing food for her family, happened to drop a piece of buttered bread – and Continue Reading →
Although Wu Ts’ailuan is an admired and revered poet of the Taoist tradition, it not possible to say anything certain about her life. She may have lived in the 9th Continue Reading →
Hazrat Inayat Khan now gives more description of the world of the mind that awaits the sprit on its return journey. The previous post in the series is here. Life Continue Reading →
It happened once upon a time that Birbal, the chief minister of the Emperor Akbar, came to know of a woman who was in great financial difficulty. She was the Continue Reading →
Fariduddin Attar told the following tale, that a non-believer arrived at the door of Abraham’s house and asked to be fed. Abraham said that he would feed him provided that Continue Reading →
Hazrat Inayat Khan continues with his explanation of the way in which the departing spirit confers gifts of knowledge and experience upon the spirit on its way to birth on Continue Reading →
Lü Dongbin was a legendary scholar and poet of the Tang dynasty (ca. 7th – 10th c. CE) in China. In Taoism he is one of the best known of Continue Reading →
It happened once upon a time that the Emperor Akbar was given a parrot. The parrot was handsome and clever and able to speak, and the Emperor was delighted with Continue Reading →