Heart of Sufism

[avad]

"...Before the soul now is a world, a world not strange to it, but a world which it had made during its life on earth. That which the soul had known as mind is now to the soul a world. That which the soul, while on earth, called imagination, is now before it a reality.
If this world is artistic, it is the art produced by the soul. If there is absence of beauty, that is also caused by the neglect of beauty by the soul while on earth.

What will be the atmosphere of that world? It will be the re-echo of the same atmosphere which one has created in this world. If one has learned while on earth how to create joy and happiness for oneself and for others, in the other world that joy and happiness surrounds one. If one has sown the seeds of poison while on earth, the fruits of these one must reap there. That is where one sees justice as the nature of life."

From The Heart of Sufism- Essential Writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan

Comments

[darkfader.livejournal.com]

On a sufist kick? seen a few good quotes on it from ya recently... It's a very interesting construct. I love having an infinite amount of ways to describe somthing! I espically like the dis-embodied karma expressed as a paralell world of sorts.

[avad.livejournal.com]

yep, I find it very interesting. The Sufi description is probably closest to how I personally visualize things (literally-since i try to sing of these things in visual art)...as particles and the seeding of new worlds and moments...
I'm reading that particular book now (where these quaotes are from), have read others in the past, loved 'Awakening' by Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan...and of course the poetry of Rumi and Hafiz. But likewise, I read and love Buddhist views and Hindu, Taoist, Jewish mysticism, and yes even the words of that sweet Jesus guy.;) Yes, infinite ways to describe...including the beautiful descriptions in quantum physics and systems theory...etc. Eat it all and sing- here's to the beauty and mystery of life!:)

[darkfader.livejournal.com]

Nifty! I am a lover of just about all religions, taking whats useful for me from them. I've enjoied the writing of Alan Watts (and espically his recordings, he's got a nice voice), and quite a few others... I recently picked up a book from a zen monistary and another of robert anton wilsons books.

I've also enjoied the concept of logos, or the way or flow of things... it's not nessarrily a factual model, but a functional one. And it has a grace all it's own. I'll check out some of the texts you mentioned, they sound quite interesting.

[rokkitz.livejournal.com]

:o)