The Witness Within
Musa Muhaiyaddeen
Sufism is one of the paths that explains and guides us towards our inner spiritual being, to that part of us that is beyond the senses. It brings us to a place where there is the possibility of experiencing an entirely different way of existence. This is an inner journey that opens our hearts to the treasures found within the qualities of God. Sufism explains that to do this we need to change our focus from an elemental existence to a spiritual existence.The Sufi path teaches us that there is a place that is not part of the elemental nature we are born with, there is another place that comes from the Eternal where the qualities that exist there are kindness, love, mercy, compassion, truthfulness, and justice. Sufism is a path of love.May it come to pass that these words resonate to break the shell of illusion that covers our hearts. May these words help take us to the Eternal where truth exists, and where love and kindness exist as reality. May our path towards God be straight, and true, and easy.Musa Muhaiyaddeen
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Mar 26, 2021 • 36min
#56 Nothing Exists but God
At the center, at the core, at the apex of religious belief in Islam is the statement of faith, also known as the kalimah. And it is “La illaha il Allah; Muhammadur Rasul-Allah.” What’s interesting is that there are two sections to this, and the second part, “Muhammadur Rasul-Allah” means Muhammad is His Rasul, is His Prophet, is His Messenger, is the one who brings the understanding of the way. And that part is usually easily understood. And the translation is accepted in one way. But the beginning part, “La illaha il Allah” is translated in a lot of different ways. And it’s interesting that it’s translated in a lot of different ways because the different translations give you an insight into the state of the people doing the translating.
Mar 24, 2021 • 20min
#55 Ideas and Idols
Recently in Camodia during the reign of someone called Pol Pot in something called the Khmer Rouge…Khmer is an ancient name for Cambodia, and rouge means red. That was to signify the new coming of the new ideas they were bringing into Cambodia which were essentially Communist or at least their idea of communism. There was a group who felt very strongly about their ideas. And they felt that they needed to impose their ideas on everybody else. And then they saw that not everybody accepted their ideas. And so they determined that the reason they didn’t or weren’t capable of accepting their ideas is they were too old or too educated in another way or too polluted to accept their ideas. So the solution was to kill everybody who had different ideas and reeducate an entire new generation of people, young people so that these ideas, which were of course the truth, would be able to be implemented, and then, there would be a perfect society.
Mar 22, 2021 • 26min
#54 The Limited and the Unlimited
We live in a world where we understand things through our perceptions. Our perceptions are limited, so the understanding that we can have through our perceptions is a limited understanding. However, we have other faculties besides our senses. In addition to our senses, we have the ability to have faith, to believe things that we don’t see, hear, taste that we sense in an entirely different way. And the strength of our belief system is very critical as to who we are. So, we are what we believe and how strong we believe it. Are we aware of what we believe, and are we aware that we can strengthen our belief system? And how do we chose a belief system?
Mar 20, 2021 • 26min
#53 Worldly Knowledge & Wisdom
In the world there are information sources, institutions, individuals, media types, various forms of media, that claim to give you information. And when we’re born, we’re born into all of the existing media outputs that exist in the area where we grow up, where we’re born, where we live. We’re taught to accept these information outputs as legitamate. For instance, as a child you’re sent to school, and you’re taught that you’re sent to school to learn. Now, you may not think that that’s such a critical moment. But just the fact that as a child, you think you’re going to learn in school and that you’re going to learn things that are important to you in school is an incredible imprinting on you at a very early age. You are led to believe that this place that you’re going to be sent to every morning except for a few weeks in the summer is going to teach you things that are going to be valuable to you.
Mar 18, 2021 • 28min
#52 Phases of Learning
There are a lot of phases in life. We start out as absolutely dependent infants, and we move on. Some of us change phases as we move on. Some of us get stuck in phases as we go along. It’s been said that you can’t really begin to study and/or understand mysticism until you’re about 40. It’s also been said that if you don’t start when you’re young, you’re never going to be agile enough to begin when you’re 40. So, it appears that right from the beginning, we’re stuck between a rock and a hard place. We come from the world of souls, and then we spend our first few years forgetting where we came from. And then we get attracted to what we’re in the midst of. And it begins to overwhelm us, and it becomes our world. Then, we’re told this isn’t really your world. You have to find a way to get out of this world so that you can begin to find the truth.
Mar 16, 2021 • 19min
#51 Alone
A lot of people spend their time studying scripture, and they become experts at scripture and what’s involved in scripture. Some even get to the point where they memorize scripture and can repeat the words in the books. However, those words have to be applied. Those words have to be used for some end. Even though those words of their own are holy, that holiness has to be taken and used by humanity somehow.Some people use those words to help them study themselves and to find out about themselves and to understand themselves. So, the study of scripture for those people transmutes into a study of themselves because it’s in the self that you find the truths that the scripture talks about, you find the truths that the holy books talk about. Because what is it that the holy books talk about? They talk about the relationship between you and Allah. They talk about the relationship between you and God. And if that isn’t the point of what you’re studying, then what is it that you’re studying?
Mar 13, 2021 • 25min
#50 Altering States
Mar 11, 2021 • 20min
#49 Alternate Universes
Mar 9, 2021 • 24min
#48 Why Am I
Mar 7, 2021 • 25min
