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The Origins of Heart Rhythm Meditation
Hazrat Inayat Khan was a
Sufi sage born in India in 1882, who came to America in 1910. He lived
thereafter in London, England during WWI, and then in Suresnes, a suburb of Paris, France,
where he formed his school. He died in India in 1927.
"Peace comes when self is in harmony with the
rhythm of the heart. This
is accomplished in silent meditation when one enters into the
life-stream in the heart so that it takes up the proper pulsation."
"If there is any form of concentration to be used in meditation, it
consists in first getting into the rhythm of the heart, by
watching the
heartbeats, feeling them and harmonizing with them. Then one centers
all feeling in the physical heart and out of feeling selects love, and
out of love, Divine Love."
A Sufi is a seeker of Truth, in any tradition or outside of any tradition.
Most Sufis today have never heard the term. Those who know the name
want to claim it for their own group, but it cannot be narrowed or contained
for it is the essence of wisdom; it comes from pure experience and it
abides by no dogma or rules.
"Sufism originated from the ancient school of Egyptian mysteries, a
school which existed even before Abraham, the father of three great
religions: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Those who know Sufism from
superficial writings, and, sometimes, from translations of the Arabic or
Persian literature, are apt to think that Sufism is the mystical side of
Islam. In reality, it is not true. Sufism existed before Mohammed,
before Jesus Christ, before Abraham."
"Sufism is not a religion nor a philosophy, it is neither deism nor
atheism, nor is it a moral, nor a special kind of mysticism, being
free from the usual religious sectarianism. If ever it could be
called a religion, it would only be as a religion of love, harmony,
and beauty."
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