“Do I want awakening enough? Something feels off with that question, even though many masters recommend increasing the desire for awakening as a first step. It feels better to ask this: Do I want awakening now? Am I willing to submit myself to it now, or is there something I’d rather do, complete or have first?” ~ Regina Dawn Akers
Minutes for the Member Board of Trustees Meeting, 10/5/15
Click the link below to read the minutes from this meeting.
(To learn more about the Member Board of Trustees, click here.)
October 20, 2015 Daily Quote
“Who wants to awaken? Does awareness want to awaken? No, there is no such thought in awareness. It is the mind that wants to awaken, just as it is the mind that doubts and becomes distracted. What does it mean if it is the mind that wants to awaken? It means that the power the mind has to distract from Self and to create a world of problems, suffering and fear, can now be turned toward Self. Maybe the mind itself cannot awaken, as some say, but all of that power turned back around with the purpose of Self-realization cannot be useless.” ~ Regina Dawn Akers
October 19, 2015 Daily Quote
“If I pay careful attention I can recognize this desire to project an image. Its characteristics are subtle but detectable. There is the thought of ‘others’ and how they view ‘me’ inherent in image-projection.” ~ Regina Dawn Akers
Weekly Gathering, 10/18/15
Allow the Teaching to Work on You
Regina Dawn Akers, minister, reflects on a respected spiritual teacher’s story about reflecting on the teaching. When we listen to his story, we might realize how we can let the teachings work more deeply on us.
Sandy Ruiz reads Untitled True Story About M the Seeker and His Experience of Listening to Talks by Jiddu Krishnamurti.
Barbara Deurwaarder serves as Sanctuary Administrator.
Quote from Bentinho Massaro:
Look around you, and marvel at how much importance people give to insignificant things, and how rarely they consider the truly significant things.
Chit-chat, chit-chat.
Distraction here, distraction there.
Marvel at it, giggle rudely or compassionately (either way), and resolve to never drown in the human condition to that degree yourself.
Then love yourself, and them, as a perfect expression of The One.
October 18, 2015 Daily Quote
“The ability to perceive differences and to discern one thing from another is one of the most valuable tools you can have. It is one of the most valuable tools you can have both for your spiritual progress and for how to live in the worldly life.” ~ Michael Langford
October 17, 2015 Daily Quote
“What is it to ‘really want’ something? When one is falling in love, one really wants the person of his/her affection. One wants to be with that person all of the time. When one cannot be with that person, one is thinking about him/her. I can use this example as a symbol to gauge my desire for awakening. Am I in love with this purpose so that I want, more than anything, to sit in meditation and contemplation with it? When I have to be away doing other things, am I thinking of my purpose? Am I looking forward to the time when I can be fully immersed with it again?” ~ Regina Dawn Akers
New Class Starts in November – Introduction to Sufi Thought
“It’s best to call Sufism a way of experiencing reality as love itself.” ~ Neil Douglas-Klotz
“Islam and Sufism are one. Teaching that to understand Islam one must be a lover, how can one understand Islam when the heart is empty of love?” ~ Zarina Bibi
“Sufism is about connecting with the intuitive parts of ourselves so that we can attune to the highest vibration in the universe, which is pure love. It’s about joining together in the mystical heart.” ~ Charlotte Karl
“Sufism is experience, and hence not to be defined …” ~ Idries Shah
What is this mystical Islamic religion, which has produced great seers such as Rumi and Hafiz? What do Sufis believe about God? What does it mean to totally empty yourself? Join us for “Introduction to Sufi Thought” and discover the heart of the Sufi by experiencing it directly, within yourself.
The primary objectives of this class are:
1. The participant will become familiar with the mystical path of Islam known as Sufism.
2. The participant will practice inner devotion and observe its effects.
Specific Information:
This class is 5 weeks long.
There are two class schedules available:
~ On Tuesday evenings, November 17 – December 15 from 7:30pm-9:30pm Eastern Time. Homework begins November 11. Facilitator: Jay McCormick, or
~ On Wednesday mornings, November 18 – December 17 from 10am-noon Eastern Time. Homework begins November 12. Facilitator: Regina Dawn Akers.
Cost is $100.
Textbook needed is The Sufi Book of Life: 99 Pathways of the Heart for the Modern Dervish, by Neil Douglas-Klotz.
Class is offered in PalTalk. Familiarity with PalTalk is helpful.
Registration closes on November 10.
For more information on this class, click here.
Click to register
October 16, 2015 Daily Quote
“I can trust this world, because it is an illusion. The world is not real like it appears to be. The world is a temporary and changing appearance brought about through the power of desire. This is why I can trust the world. As I fine-tune my desire, ensuring that the power of desire is behind only the purpose to awaken, the world and the mysterious force that is behind it, responds by answering the call of my one true desire. I know this to be true.” ~ Regina Dawn Akers
October 15, 2015 Daily Quote
“It is only when your awareness reaches the heart that great progress from your practice is possible.” ~ Michael Langford
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