7. EUROPEAN Special Guest Teacher this year: Shabda Khan (USA), Spiritual Director of the Khalif Philip o‘Donohoe (): RUHANIAT Sufi Ruhaniat International, direct disciple of Mental Purification Murshid Samuel L. Lewis: Awakening Not Based Exploration of this paper of Hazrat Khan SUMMERSCHOOL on Outer Conditions, based on ”201 Suras on with its commentaries by Murshid Samuel L. Breath“ by Murshid Samuel Lewis, in addition to Lewis and Murshid Moineddin Jablonski. advanced Walks, Wazifa, Sufi Sesshin. Including zikr, fi kr, breathing practices, Muja- 2009 hida and meditation.

Sheikha Tamam Khan (USA) The Lives of the Holy Women at the Time of Prophet Muhammad Wali und Arienne van der Zwan with poetry, meditation, spiritual practice, (Belgien): wazifa, zikr. Life as Cultivator of the Heart In this class we will work towards insight in and answers for these questions from both Murshid Murshid Saadi Shakur Chisti (Scotland): Samuel Lewis and Hazrat Inayat Khan through Sitting Alive: The Sufi Way of Meditation sayings from the Bowl of Saki and other texts and Embracing Life based on the papers Gita Dhyana of Murshid commentaries. Through movement (dance and Samuel Lewis, who integrates both Sufi and walk), meditation and breath, we ‘translate’ all to Buddhist approaches to silence, with sound prac- our own every day experience. as the Teacher tice, zikr, walking meditation, wazifa. Unfolding Life‘s Purpose, Murshida Sophia Gita Onnen (): Sheikha Alima Stoeckel (Germany): universal and unique Mastering the Challenges of Life Creatively: Walking Meditation: Spiritual Practice for our Soulwork after the teaching of Hazrat Pir Everyday Life. Moineddin Jablonski and Murshid Samuel Selected Walks of the centers, elements, planets, Lewis. wazaif as well as Walks of the masters, healers and prophets.

Khalifa Baraka von Kügelgen (Germany): Khalif Hauke Jelaluddin Sturm (Germany): Sufi-Healing: Prevention and Self-Healing The Harmony of Life: Music as a Mirror for Forces – based on the commentaries of Murshid Relationships and Daily Life – based on the Samuel Lewis on the papers on „Everyday Life“ essays of Murshid Samuel Lewis on ”Music and by Hazrat Inayat Khan, for deepening our me- Cosmic Evolution“ and selections from Hazrat I. taphysical insight in the rhythm of healing and Khan‘s ” of Music, Sound and Word.“ maintaining health. Go to www.ruhaniateurope.org for a complete description 27. June – 4. July 2008 of all classes offered this year. Proitzer Mühle near Uelzen 7. European Ruhaniat Sommerschool 2009: We will transmit the living tradition of through the Dances of Universal Peace, Walking Medita- Everyday life is the proving ground Embracing Life as the Teacher tions, Zikr (remembrance), Wazifa, Prayer, Song, Soul- work and spiritual psychology, healing, art, Sufi poetry of spititual experience. Life‘s Circumstances as an Opportunity and stories, meditation and silence – We will also again for Transformation Moineddin Jablonski have a silent, guided retreat day. We recognize that an awakened being is one whose inner condition is no longer based on circumstance. In other Our summer school is dedicated to the service of peace words, no circumstance could arise that would take them and for the benefit of all living beings. Location: Proitzer Mühle in North Germany, in the hills of the out of their awakening. With this understanding, we can nature reserve park of the Elba river, surrounded by forests, now see that life is the teacher, bringing to us those circum- meadows and lakes. Proitzer Mühle is an old watermill, whose stances which upset our inner state, though which we need Murshid Samuel L. Lewis (1896–1971) was a mystic history goes back to the 14th century. The buildings are on a 10 to transform to fulfill our purpose of awakening. We no schooled in both Zen and Sufism, recognized as a teacher hectare grounds and have been remodeled to a high standard, longer experience these as difficulties, but as opportunities in both traditions, who felt that spirituality should be a with a large, wooden sprung-floor dance space on that can dance 200 people. brought by our Teacher (Life) to help us transform that part matter of living experience, not division and conflict. of ourselves which is still reactive, not at peace and ease. There are many possibilities for hiking, bicycling or horseback- His spiritual successor, Moineddin Jablonski (1942– riding (you could even bring your own horse!) The next small Every year the Ruhaniat Summer School offers parti- 2001) believed that spirituality was not fully realized village, Schnega, is about 4 km away, near Uelzen in north-Ger- cipants the opportunity to experience the broad range of until fully embodied, with all elements of the personality many. The nearest Ò Hamburg airports are Ham- teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan, Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis – light and dark – included in a life of joy and compas- sion. burg and Hanover and Hazrat Moineddin Jablonski. At the same time, we (with train-con- Both lived and taught in the tradition of Hazrat Inayat deepen in and renew these teachings, finding in them nections). fertile ground for wisdom for the needs of our time." Khan (1882–1927), who brought a tradition of universal Full transport Uelzen Sufism to the west. On this path we recognize equally all details will be sent the different spititual traditions of the world and honor upon registration, "Life is action, action in any direction. Vibrations are Proitzer and there will be Schnega like waves that rise and fall. The wave travels in a definite them as an expression of the Holy. Mühle help for non- t direction as toward a goal and yet in its movement rises and German speakers. Ò Hannover falls to crest and trough. So man rises and falls, has apparent Come and join us for song, dance, music and medi- successes and failures, but all the time may be moving toward tation with brothers and sisters from many lands as we For more information on the site, see his true destination without even knowing it. It is only the celebrate the ages-old heritage of the path of love, harmo- www.proitzer-muehle.de one who does not move who does not arrive." ny and beauty as it applies to life today. Director: Murshida Sophia Gita Onnen Samuel L. Lewis Manager: Edmund Aziz Dixon Organisational director: Qadima Sabine Brandt

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