CLIMATE CHANGE: A CASE FOR CONTENTMENT
by Alireza Nurbakhsh
Climate Change: A Case for Contentment
Tag: Sufism
Archives 88 – Editors’ Note
Editors’ Note
In a time when attachment to the world and its wealth seems to many to be out of reasonable control, Winter Issue #88 SUFI explores the many facets of the act of
Archives 88 – Detachment
by Alireza Nurbakhsh
Having worldly possessions and comforts is not incompatible with the state of detachment in Sufism. It is not the possessions that obscure our vision.
Archives 88 – Sufi Practice and Contemporary Psychoanalysis
by Michele Rousseau
Fundamental to Sufism is the unity of all of creation. Traditionally, this has been referred to as absolute reality and absolute being.
Winter Issue: Sufism
Issue #86 features CARL ERNST Interview on Sufism, RUMI Beyond Religion, DISCOURSE Spiritual Yearning LLEWELLYN VAUGHAN-LEE Adab-Sufi Etiquette, JOHN L. CAUGHEY An American Ethnographer in a Sufi Community,
The Illusion of Self
by Alireza Nurbakhsh
Each of us tends to think of him- or herself as a distinct being, a “self” that is both separate from other people and separate from our bodies and our perceptions, thoughts and feelings.
Meditation in Motion
by Kabir Helminski“Sema is to struggle with the notion of one’s self, like a dying, bloodstained bird, fluttering in the dust.” -Jalaluddin Rumi.
Jessika Kenney: Singing from the Heart
For Issue #84 of SUFI, singer Jessika Kenney shared with us her journey from singing jazz in her teens, through her musical explorations in Indonesia, to her discovery and love affair with Persian music and culture.