Spring Retreat 2011 | Lake of the Ozarks | USA
(Please note: the traveling clicking sound are the abundant tree frogs in the forest singing at the retreat!)
DAY 1: The Sense of Beauty and Sincerity
In the words of Hazrat Inayat Khan: "There are two things needed in the development of personality: the sense of beauty and the preservation of sincerity."
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- Opening: Scruti Box and Intoning Sacred Sound "Hu".
- Invocation: Masters, Saints, and Prophets
- Sufi Invocation: Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Reading: The Flower Garden of Inayat Khan, page 15
- Reading: Reflections on the Art of Personality by Hidayat Inayat-Khan, Nr. 45
- Meditation: Taking inventory of one’s own personality and character. Reflect what was the intention during this retreat/camp.
- Reading: Quote from Spiritual Liberty, Reflections on the Message of the Unity of Religious Ideals, Part II The Art of Personality, Nr. 45
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Part V, Gatha 1, Saluk: Moral, The Development of Personality: Sense of Beauty and Sincerity
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Part V, Gatha 1, Saluk: Moral, The Development of Personality: Sense of Beauty and Sincerity (continued)
- Practice: Quiet meditative reflection on the reading
- Reading: Twenty Jataka Tales by Noorunnissa Inayat-Khan, “The Patient Buffalo”
- Closing Prayer & Dedication of Merit
DAY 2: The Jarring Effect of the Ego on Another
In the words of Hazrat Inayat Khan: “Those who know the right manner of developing personality know that the first lesson in life is to efface that ego as much as possible.”
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- Opening: Zikar of Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Invocation: Masters, Saints, and Prophets
- Sufi Invocation: Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Reading: The Flower Garden of Inayat Khan, 2nd Edition, page 28
- Practice: Purification Breaths, as taught by Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Reading: Reflections on the Art of Personality by Hidayat Inayat-Khan, No. 2 and 21
- Meditation: Taking inventory of one’s own personality and character. Reflect what was the intention during this retreat/camp.
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Part V, Gatha 1, Saluk: Moral, The Development of Personality: The Jarring Effect of the Ego of Another
- Reading: The Causal Law in Terms of Happiness, Samyutta Nikāya, Lord Buddha
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Part V, Gatha 1, Saluk: Moral, The Development of Personality: The Jarring Effect of the Ego of Another (continued)
- Closing Prayer & Dedication of Merit
DAY 3: What Is the Ego?
In the words of Hazrat Inayat Khan: “Know thyself and thou wilt know God, said the great Sufi philosopher Ali. To know the self is the most difficult thing in the world....”
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- Opening: Zikar of Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Invocation: Masters, Saints, and Prophets
- Sufi Invocation: Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Reading: The Flower Garden of Inayat Khan, 2nd Edition, page 10, "Inayat Khan's Words"
- Reading: An Introduction to the Message in Our Time, "Not To Be Is To Be".
- Practice: Zikar (in English): Head to the left sweeping toward the right and back again repeatedly. Left to right saying, “There is nothing”. From right to left, “Only God IS!”
- Reading: from Reflections on the Art of Personality by Hidayat Inayat-Khan, No. 11, 12, and 17
- Meditation: Taking inventory of one’s own personality and character. Reflect what was the intention during this retreat/camp.
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Part V, Gatha 1.3, Saluk: Moral, “The Development of Personality: What Is the Ego?”
- Practice: Quiet meditative reflection on the reading
- Practice: Triangle Breath, development of mastery over one’s own personality and character
- Reading: Jataka Tales, Noorunnissa Inayat-Khan, “The Tortoise and the Geese”, pg. 41
- Closing Prayer
- Dedication of Merit
DAY 4: What the Ego Needs and Does Not Need?
In the words of Hazrat Inayat Khan: "In order to train the ego it is necessary that one should distinguish what is the right of the ego and what is not its right."
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- Opening: Meditation, Prayer
- Invocation: Masters, Saints, and Prophets
- Invocation: Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Reading: The Flower Garden of Inayat Khan, 2nd Edition, page 30, “Inayat Khan’s Words”
- Reading: Universal Sufism, page 22-23
- Practice: Zikar version 1 (in English): Head moving left to right saying, “There is nothing”. Head moving from right to left saying, “Only God IS!"
- Reading: Reflections on the Art of Personality by Hidayat Inayat-Khan, Nr. 39
- Meditation: Taking inventory of one’s own personality and character. Reflect what was the intention during this retreat/camp.
- Reading: Sufi Message Volume XIII, The Gathas, Part V, Gatha 1.4, Saluk: Moral, “The Training of the Ego: What the Ego Needs and What It Does Not Need?”
- Reading: Once Upon a Time by Hidayat Inayat-Khan, "Murshid's Majestic Personality”
- Closing Prayer & Dedication of Merit
