Category: Letters to mureeds

In a recent post, the theme was the application of Sufi teachings to the innumerable problems we face in life, and the post quoted Hazrat Inayat Khan referring to the Continue Reading →

Surely everyone is familiar with this piece of wisdom: “A Sufi lives in the world, but is not of the world.” Or, as Murshid Hidayat might have said, “The Sufi Continue Reading →

In the recently posted tale about the elderly rabbi approaching the end of his days on earth, there was one question that he feared: Zusya, why weren’t you Zusya?  It Continue Reading →

In the recently posted text on the nature of renunciation, Hazrat Inayat Khan says, “Love is a blessing, but it turns into a curse in attachment; admiration is a blessing, Continue Reading →

The poems by Lalleshwari, recently posted here, show two related conditions on the spiritual path.  One is the stage of the travel-worn seeker who has not yet arrived, and who, Continue Reading →

A recent post offered two short texts from Hazrat Inayat Khan on the subject of sympathy, a quality that we appreciate in others when it is directed towards us, but Continue Reading →

A few days ago we posted a tale in which the ever-resourceful, sometimes wise and often foolish Mullah Nasruddin promoted the virtue of his hen because she did not chatter Continue Reading →

We recently posted the story recounted by Hazrat Inayat Khan about the mystic or murshid who saw a mureed in danger while looking in a mirror, and who smashed the Continue Reading →

In this recently posted tale, our friend Mullah Nasruddin has a conversation with the Creator about what the Mullah perceives as a flaw in God’s creation: why should an enormous Continue Reading →

In the song of Milarepa,’ I Have Forgotten,’ posted here, the Tibetan mystic sings of the beneficial effects of various meditations and practices, by means of which, as he says, Continue Reading →