Masters Of Wisdom Of Central Asia

Author : Hasan Lutfi Shushud
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620553627
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masters of Wisdom of Central Asia written by Hasan Lutfi Shushud and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the secret teachings of the Khwajagan, the Masters of Wisdom of Turkish Sufism • Provides biographies for the entire lineage of teachers in the Naqshbandi order, such as Yusuf Hamdani, the first recognized Khwajagan, and Baha’ al-Din Naqshband, from whom the Naqshbandi order of Sufis took its name • Shows that this spiritual path focuses on expanding awareness of the heart to reach God-consciousness • An essential guide for understanding Itlak Yolu, the Sufi path of Absolute Liberation, and fana’, Annihilation in God Almost one thousand years ago a new and powerful nexus of spiritual transmission emerged in Central Asia and lasted for five centuries, reaching its culmination in the work of the Khwajagan, or “Masters of Wisdom.” Like the much earlier Rishi Pantha of India, these masters of Turkish Sufism were not renunciates but advocated maintaining an active connection with the world, including raising a family or running a business. They exerted a remarkable influence on the destiny of Central Asia, yet their chief significance lies in their almost unparalleled depth of spiritual perfection. Based on primary Persian and Turkish sources, the same texts used by the Sufi authority Idries Shah in his many books, Masters of Wisdom of Central Asia explores the entire lineage of teachers from this golden age of Islamic Sufism. Author Hasan Shushud provides brief biographies of each teacher, such as Yusuf Hamdani, the first recognized Khwajagan; Ahmad al-Yasavi, the father of Turkish Sufism; and Baha’ al-Din Naqshband, from whom the Naqshbandi order of Sufis took its name. He examines their spiritual journeys, their writings and teachings, and their most famous sayings, incorporating occasional parables to illustrate their wisdom. Shushud reveals how this spiritual path focuses on expanding awareness of the heart and how heart awareness is a prerequisite for divine contemplation and God-consciousness, for the heart is the manuscript within the body on which the infinite mysteries of the Godhead are recorded. An essential guide for understanding Itlak Yolu, the Sufi path of Absolute Liberation, and fana’ fi-llah, Annihilation in God, this book is an indispensable work for anyone interested in Sufism or the spiritual history of Central Asia.

Author : Hasan Lutfi Shushud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780900306938
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masters of Wisdom of Central Asia written by Hasan Lutfi Shushud and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nevit O. Ergin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620552752
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sufi Path of Annihilation written by Nevit O. Ergin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the profound Sufi practice of Itlak Yolu • Examines the three main facets of this practice: zikr or breathing exercises, fasting, and mental suffering • Shares new Sufi parables, the sayings of Sufi master Hasan Lutfi Shushud, and Rumi’s philosophy on annihilation of the Self • Reveals how once the Self is annihilated higher levels of perception are reached In this exploration of the profound spiritual practice of Itlak Yolu, the Sufi path of annihilation, Nevit Ergin examines the three main facets of this path: zikr or breathing exercises, fasting, and mental suffering. Sharing experiences and discussions with Hasan Lutfi Shushud, renowned Sufi saint and final guide of Gurdjieff’s disciple J. G. Bennett, the author illustrates how suffering--“the searing fire of contrition”--is the most effective instrument of spiritual progress, for it is suffering that burns the Self. He explains how faithful practice of zikr and fasting will bring on this kind of suffering when the student is ready and will make the suffering tolerable. He shows how once the Self is annihilated higher levels of perception take hold and one finds oneself on the path to sainthood and immortality. Interwoven throughout with sayings by Shushud, Sufi parables, and poems by Rumi, Ergin shares the unique Itlak perspective on the major questions of every seeker: the true nature of love and religion, life and death, and other major spiritual questions. The book also includes an essay on annihilation and absence in Rumi’s philosophy and biographical portraits of Hasan Lufti Shushud by other aspirants who met with him.

Author : J. Bennett
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781720853787
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Masters of Wisdom written by J. Bennett and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Masters of Wisdom" is the last book to have been published during the John Bennett's lifetime, and is probably the most unusual, having little in common with his previously published works, except in serving a number of discrete objectives. Originally planned to be incorporated into a single volume to be entitled "Gurdjieff and the Masters of Wisdom" this work was separated from what became "Gurdjieff: Making a New World" which eventually was published a year earlier in 1973. In the last years of Bennett's life, he had been deeply affected by his close association with the Turkish mystic, Hasan Lutfi Shushud, and originally a contract was drawn up with a London publishing house for the combined work, in which both men were signed as joint authors. However, before anything was written, Shushud abruptly withdrew his support for the project, ostensibly on the grounds of a disagreement with the publishers. Only after Bennett's death in 1974, Shushud indicated privately that he found Gurdjieff's teaching and methods offensive. There is however some overlap between the two books, and "The Masters of Wisdom" draws on Gurdjieff's resources as well as material provided by Hasan Shushud. "The Masters of Wisdom" is unlike Bennett's other books not only in the way it is constructed, which appears to be somewhat out of balance, but also in the content. The first three chapters provide an overview of material presented 8 years earlier in the fourth volume of "The Dramatic Universe", of the Earth as single intelligent whole, in which humanity plays an increasingly active role and - must accept greater responsibility. These chapters provide an introduction to Chapter 4 which presents an account of the Christ Event not to be found anywhere else, and by Bennett's own account, arising out of insights vouchsafed to him privately by Gurdjieff. The next chapter serves as a bridge to the second major detailed message Bennett shares, which concerns the extraordinary period spanning at least 350 years, when a group of men within a single unbroken tradition played a pivotal and benign role in otherwise catastrophic events. It is not clear why Bennett devotes an entire chapter to Genghis Khan in a book entitled "The Masters of Wisdom" except that he appears to have been an exceptionally gifted individual whom Bennett apparently admired for his great self-control, and his willingness to accept guidance from a spiritual director. The researches Bennett completed in his last years led him to certain conclusions which may not have been fully expressed in this account. Unlike Bennett's other books, "The Masters of Wisdom" contains hidden messages, and also occult elements which are accessible to those able to access them. "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson" and "The Dramatic Universe" showed the transformative power of books, but like "Meetings with Remarkable Men" this book imparts information which remains hidden except from those readers who find the key. The book is also unlike any of Bennett's other books in containing secret "magic" elements, opening mystical channels. Since the text was left unfinished when Bennett died, it is not possible to know for certain whether the message of the book is complete or would have included other material such as the very detailed accounts that Bennett gave to his student in the last months - the "esoteric phase" - of the Third Basic Course. Overall the message is of the planet we inhabit seen as a single indivisible whole, of which we human beings are an important element, but which is subordinate to the Cosmic forces.

Author : John G. Bennett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781881408017
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masters of Wisdom written by John G. Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : White Brotherhood
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312201169
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annie Besant and the Masters of Wisdom written by White Brotherhood and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yannis Toussulis
Publisher : Quest Books
ISBN 13 : 0835630307
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sufism and the Way of Blame written by Yannis Toussulis and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold Winner of the 2012 Benjamin Franklin Award and the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Award! This is a definitive book on the Sufi “way of blame” that addresses the cultural life of Sufism in its entirety. Originating in ninth-century Persia, the “way of blame” (Arab. malamatiyya) is a little-known tradition within larger Sufism that focused on the psychology of egoism and engaged in self-critique. Later, the term referred to those Sufis who shunned Islamic literalism and formalism, thus being worthy of “blame.” Yannis Toussulis may be the first to explore the relation between this controversial movement and the larger tradition of Sufism, as well as between Sufism and Islam generally, throughout history to the present. Both a Western professor of the psychology of religion and a Sufi practitioner, Toussulis has studied malamatiyya for over a decade. Explaining Sufism as a lifelong practice to become a “perfect mirror in which God contemplates Himself,” he draws on and critiques contemporary interpretations by G. I Gurdjieff, J. G. Bennett, and Idries Shah, as well as on Frithjof Schuon, Martin Lings, and Seyyed Hossein Nasr. He also contributes personal research conducted with one of the last living representatives of the way of blame in Turkey today, Mehmet Selim Ozic.

Author : Wyman Wicket
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483450511
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 23 Skiddoo: Way back beyond across the stars written by Wyman Wicket and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Altruistic Red Pill Fantasy. We sometimes hear things that cannot be definitively traced to a source. This nurtures a sense of magic all the more, as befuddlement trumps our rational ability to figure out and explain something our senses tell us is there none-the-less. Such phenomena can instill fear-fear of the unknown-and this, in turn, might pry open our souls, our consciousness, our life force, enough for a malevolent force to gain entry; at least this is a premise to be found in 23 Skiddoo.

Author : John Godolphin Bennett
Publisher : Red Wheel
ISBN 13 : 9780855000691
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Masters of Wisdom written by John Godolphin Bennett and published by Red Wheel. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Publisher : The Golden Sufi Center
ISBN 13 : 1890350109
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moshkel Gosha written by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and published by The Golden Sufi Center. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through this ancient Persian story of a prickly-bush digger and his daughter who discover magical stones that bring wealth and disaster, this tale explores the different ways to nourish and care for the soul. As an invitation to the dimensions of love, power, and divine sustenance, Moshkel Gosha's magical story shows how to value and protect a deep longing for inner truth in the contemporary age. The accompanying commentary highlights the story and applies its principles to the spiritual needs and challenges of the contemporary world. “This little book is a priceless jewel. It is such a joy to read age-old truths set in the context of another language and other customs, and to have the essence of these truths translated so beautifully and powerfully into a language we can all understand.” —Robert Johnson, author He, She, Inner Work, and Balancing Heaven & Earth “Moshkel Gosha is a mysterious Sufi story with different levels of meaning. This commentary gives many valuable insights into the hidden significance of this story. It shows how an ancient Sufi teaching story contains the answer to one of today's most important psychological and spiritual questions: how to let the healing and transformative power of the inner world become a part of our everyday life.” —Irina Tweedie, author, Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master “Those seeking a rich inner life will find this little book deeply rewarding. Joseph Campbell showed us the power of myth to help us understand ourselves, now Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee guides us to the world within as revealed in a magical tale.” —Jonathan Young, PhD, Psychologist and Founding Curator, Joseph Campbell Archives Center for Story & Symbol