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CONFRATERNITY MEDITATION FOR OCTOBER
27
“My simple trust! How often thou has disappointed me,
yet I still go on following thee with closed eyes.”
Gayan of Hazrat Inayat Khan
Annotation by Cherag Hamid Touchon
"After self-confidence is developed, the second step is to trust another
with closed eyes. One might think that this is not always practical, and
one might think that it might lead to great loss. But at the same time
even that loss would be a gain, and a thousand gains compared with the
loss of faith would be as nothing. A person is richer if he has trusted
someone and lost something than if he had not trusted someone and preserved
something - that one day will be taken away from him! He could just as
well have given it up.
One might say that every simple person is inclined to trust another.
Yes, but the difference between the wise person who trusts bravely and
the simple person who trusts readily is great. The wise man who trusts,
if he is influenced by another that he may not, or must not, trust a certain
person, even if he is given a certain proof, even then that habit of trusting
will remain with him. As to the simple man, as soon as anyone says, "Oh,
what are you doing, you trust somebody who is not trustworthy", his trust
will change. That is the difference between the wise and the foolish person.
The foolish person trusts because he does not know better; the wise person
trusts because he knows that to trust is best." The Sufi Message of
Hazrat Inayat Khan – Sufi Teachings – The Privilege of Being Human – Faith
and Doubt
A Fikr Practice (silent breath meditation)
However many breathes seem appropriate
On the out breath
"THY LIGHT IS IN ALL FORMS "
On the in breath:
"THY LOVE IN ALL BEINGS "
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