not an oxymoron
Posted in Of Core Knowing, On Practices on Jan 22nd, 2010
DUNYA:
We invoked you (Urvashi – PhD candidate in neuroscience and Certified Teacher of Dancemeditation) yesterday morning at the Advanced Group here in NYC. I need to describe what we were doing.
We were using the inward Shafi. (Arabic: to Heal, to Cure)
We inhaled, then did a narrow quick breath (breath of fire) for a period [...]
Posted in Of Core Knowing, On Practices, The Path on Nov 20th, 2009
During the recent NYC Intensive, I wrote:
I entered the Black Velvet Inner-ness where breaths float as jewels.
Breath is the activator and lens of subtlety. In the realm of subtlety we can dissolve into that which is most infinite and most intimate. For Sufis, the court of love is found inside the subtlety inside the [...]
Posted in Of Core Knowing on Oct 26th, 2009
I googled a friend’s avatar while the BBC World News, playing as a the soundtrack in the background, related yet another African genocidal mutilation story, and I had an odd rush of living in a performance art piece — two disembodied sources, one audio and one computer screen, focused on images and bodies. Meanwhile I [...]