Pir Elias Amidon

Love's Drum (eBook, ePUB)

Sufi Views, Practices and Stories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Love's Drum is an exquisite reflection on the nature of reality. With essays, practices and stories, the Sufi teacher Pir Elias Amidon leads us into the mysteries of nondual awareness, making clear its essence of unconditional acceptance. The eleventh century Sufi Abdullah Ansari suggested that Sufism is simply another word for love. In Amidon's words, it is ,Äùwhat unites us with all being and becoming, and yet no matter how vast and inconceivable love is, it's still the most intimate nature of our present experience.,Äù As he recounts events from his life, Amidon shows us the ,Äúopen path,Äù he follows,Äîone of inclusion, lack of dogma, experiential understanding, and love in action. His life has been one of global activism in the areas of environmentalism, peace, and indigenous rights. Through quotes from mystics, poets, philosophers, and spiritual teachers; simple practices for everyone; uncommon perspectives on human life; and wonderful stories illustrating depths of wisdom, readers can have their own experience of limitless awareness and hear the subtle beating of love's drum.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sentient Publications
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781591813064
• Artikelnr.: 75430979

Autorenporträt

By Pir Elias Amidon

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Foreword9
Author's Note10
VIEWS
The History of Love12
Human Being13
So Close16
Impermanence and Love19
The Tree of Awe21
The Face that Lights the Candle23
God Is Not Something Already Made25
Children of Happiness27
Mystic Nonsense29
Springtime Reverie30
Tears in Heaven31
Love is the Highest Ground32
The Benediction of the Old Ones33
You Bring Rivers35
The Other Side of Death36
The Beloved Community39
PRACTICES
The Joy of Pausing42
Quietness44
Gentleness45
Selflessness47
The Place Where Nothing and Everything Meet49
Living in the Zero-Point-Now51
True Illusion53
The World's Mirror56
Good Work59
Befriending Unfriendliness61
Faith-Mind62
The Practice of Not Knowing64
The Practice of Living Presence66
The Middle of the Sky — A Practice68
The Welcoming Practice69
Bow Inside69
Consent to Silence69
Welcome Love70
World Worry72
Keep an Undefended Heart72
Find What Matters73
Do the Beautiful73
Sufi Tao75
STORIES
Morning Light: Five Scenes78
Upstate New York, USA78
Valparaíso, Chile78
Hill Tribe Village, Northwest Thailand78
Near Hyderabad, India78
Avignon, France78
Dawn80
One Love81
Easter Egg83
Snowing God84
Beauty Will Save the World85
Letter to a Newborn Girl87
A Hundred Years from Now89
How to Survive the Apocalypse91
A New Year's Vow92
A Prayer in the Militant Mosque — 201093
The Mosque93
The Battle93
The Prayer94
The Soul of the World – 202296
Autumn Light97
Love and Death98
I Only Want to Say100
Permissions101
About the Author103