Spiritual Letter 29 - Original Version About Spiritual Letter 29 Title: "Traveling With The Shaikh Within You", Date: August 14, 2002 Written by: Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) Written to: Rumi Smith Home Page-Spiriutal Letters Go To Spiritual Letter 30 Letter 29: Outline & Summary Library Navigation Tree Go To Spiritual Letter 28 Letter 29: Expanded Version Go To Table of Contents - Spiritual Letter 29 Related Material Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa barakatuhu kulluhu. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. My love you (anbu), my dearest brothers and sisters - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) 1. Introduction And Opening Prayer - O our Father, our Shaikh, our Guru, we need Your love, please, please, please destroy us and reveal You Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Al-salam 'alaykum, my dearest loving sister Rumi. May all the peace, the benevolence, and the blessing of God be upon all of us. My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). Thank you for the beautiful letter. Everything you shared is true and made this child very, very happy. It is such a wonder that God provides us with everything that we need, including someone else who is trying to live within the heart of our Shaikh, is experiencing the joy of just hanging out with Him, tasting the sweetness of His words of wisdom, is trying to "endure the cure", and is learning to travel with the Shaikh within their very own heart. What a wonder and blessing for this child is my sweet sister Rumi Smith. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. You asked how this child is doing. Well the life of this child is a real blessing from God, which Bawa has told me to share with you at this time. Want a wonder is this God of ours and His Messenger for this age, which is our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be please with Him.. Let us start this sharing with the "Father's Prayer" that we have both learned to love and use as the first step in any of our Wisdom Sharings, a prayer that Bawa has told us to say every day, before the day, during the day, and at the end of the day, in order to line up our life and intentions for the day with what God and True Man are in truth doing within us, which is revealing True Man within the Creation of God within us, and revealing God within the Creation of True Man within us. The Father's Prayer "O our Father, our Shaikh, our Guru, we need your Love, please, please, please destroy us and reveal You." "Destroy us as separate from You and You as separate from us, and reveal Us as One with You and You as one with Us." "Destroy the life of separation and differences that you have given us, and reveal the life of Oneness and Unity, of Justice and Truth, and of Compassion and Unity that you have also given us." "Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar." 2. Letters To Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen - the first 3 letters recently sent to Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen (Rick Hacket) represent an amazing journey within the heart of this child, presenting a whole new view of the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), at least for this child, and how the life and teaching of His Holiness relate to everything that has been happening in the world for the last 4000 years. What a wonder We are still working on the 5 letters that were written to Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen (Rick Hacket) last month. To date we have completed and sent out to the Fellowship Mailing List the first 3 letters below, and we are just finishing up the 4th letter, "Spiritual Letter 27". We plan to start on "Spiritual Letter 28" shortly, if that be God's intention for our life. 1) Spiritual Letter 24 - Stop Talking About Being Good, And Instead Become Good 2) Spiritual Letter 25 - The Child of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Is Not Us, But Is Within Us 3) Spiritual Letter 26 - The Three Testaments of God 4) Spiritual Letter 27 - The Three Judgments of God 5) Spiritual Letter 28 - The Wisdom of Truth Must Become The Action of Truth As part of Spiritual Letter 27, "The Three Judgments of God", the following Table is provided which summarizes the history of mankind for the last 4000 years, in terms of God's judgment of His Creation in each of the three ages of man, from 2000 BC to 0 BC with the coming of Abraham, of Moses, and of David (peace be upon Them), from 0 AD to 2000 AD with the coming of Jesus (peace be upon Him), of Muhammad (Sal.), and of Muhaiyaddeen Abdul Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him), and from 1896 AD to 2086 AD with the coming of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) and His Children (may God be pleased with Them).. This Table also summarizes the outcome of each of these three judgments by God, 3400 years ago with the death of Moses (peace be upon Him), 1400 years ago with the death of Muhammad (may the peace and blessing of God be upon Him), and 16 years ago with the passing of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), as well as the result of these three judgments by God of His Creation, and the significance now of the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) to the people living in this age. Spiritual Letter 27 should be sent out shortly, as three separate pages, to the Fellowship Mailing List. However, you can read it now in its entirety as a Web Page by clicking on the following: Spiritual Letter 27, which has the URL or Web Address of: www.SpiritualLetter027.homestead.com Table 1: "The Three Judgments of God" -------The First Judgment-------The Second Judgment -------The Third Judgment ......On The "Outside" of Us:.......On The "Outside" of Us:.....On The "Outside" of Us: ..............at 1400 BC .......................at 600 AD ..........................at 1986 AD .......at the death of Moses.....at the death of Muhammad .......at the death of Bawa ..............................................................................................Muhaiyaddeen ..........3400 years ago.................1400 years ago ......................16 years ago .......On The "Inside" of Us:.........On The "Inside" of Us:.........On The "Inside" of Us: ............before we are 20................before we are 40 ................before we are 60 ....In Response To Question:....In Response To Question:...In Response To Question: .........who do you trust?................who do you love?.............who have you become? ......Outcome of Judgment:..........Outcome of Judgment:.......Outcome of Judgment: ....we failed on the outside,........we failed on the outside,.....God excepts us, on both .........and Therefore:....................and Therefore:.............the outside & the inside, ......our outside & inside,.............our outside & inside,.....making our outside & inside, .......our words & actions,............our words & actions,.....our words &our actions One. .........remain separate,..................remain separate,..........& making God & Us One, .............Keeping:............................Keeping:.................................If: .......God & us separate..............God & us separate...........we become and stay as, ....................................................................................members of the 73rd group. ...We Got On The Outside:.....We Got On The Outside:.................We Get: ....."The Promised Land"......."The Crucifixion of Jesus"........"The Sirr or Secret" ....."The Old Testament".........."The New Testament"........."The Dhat or Essence" ."The Sacrifice of Animals"........."The Holy Qur'an".............."The Sifat of the Dhat" ........................................."The Holy Struggle or Jihad"....."The Grace of the Dhat" ......................................................................................."The Power of the Dhat" ......................................................................................."The Oneness of God ....................................................................................... and True Man" ...Becoming In This Way:.......Becoming In This Way:.........Becoming In This Way: ."The People of the Book"....."The People of the Book"........."The Children of God" .."Members of 71st Group"...."Members of 72nd Group"....."Members of 73rd Group" .................................................................................."Lights of God to The World" .................................................................................."The One True Child of Bawa .....................................................................................Muhaiyaddeen (may God ........................................................................................be pleased with Him)" 3. Traveling With The Shaikh Within You - can only occur in your life after you have learned how to hold onto your Shaikh within you, and to stick to your Shaikh within you, then wherever your Shaikh goes within you, so go you One day in the room Bawa told us a beautiful story about how the true Disciple has to learn the job of the true Shaikh, and that he does this by journeying with the true Shaikh as he makes His rounds, sort of like the way the apprentice doctors make rounds with the senior doctor, what they call in the world of doctors an internship, with the new doctors picking up in this way all of the practical stuff about being a doctor after they have finished all of the "book learning" about being a doctor. In a very small way, this seems to be the life of this child, making rounds with the Shaikh within this child, starting to experience His work in the 18,000 universes within this child, which more than anything else sees to be the work of justice and truth, and of compassion and unity. In the book, "Come To The Secret Garden", Bawa teaches us about this process of traveling with the Shaikh within us, in the following way, "My grandchildren, the right path is truth, the wisdom of truth. This is not something that we can just talk about, we must bring it into action." "Talking about something is one thing, but doing it is another. You have to act upon the truth. Nothing will happen just from talking, whether the words come from you or from a man of wisdom." "In the same way that the ink from your pen sticks to a piece of paper, your actions must stick to your words. It is easy to talk about wisdom, But you have to hold on and stick to it." "Learn only that which can never be erased. Do not bother to learn anything that can be erased. That kind of learning is like writing on water. You write, but a second later, it disappears, and there is no way of knowing what was written. You will never be able to benefit from that kind of learning, and neither will anyone else." "Think about this. What you learn must be firmly established and printed in a way that will stick. Only if you stay with the Shaikh will you be able to do this." This quote can also be found in the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Calendar for 1991, for the month of August. In this way, to travel with our Shaikh we must stop just taking about the truth, we must stop just talking about wisdom, and realize instead that what we know about truth, what we know about wisdom is our Shaikh, is the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us (may God be pleased with Him), and is not really what we know. It is just what we have learned to talk about from being in the presence of our Shaikh, by sitting at His feet, as His little children, but that our talking about what our Shaikh said is not enough. Now we must learn to act upon the truth, to act upon what our Shaikh talked about, not just parrot His words, now we must learn that, "Nothing will happen just from talking, whether the words come from you or from a man of wisdom." Now we must learn to hold onto wisdom, to hold onto our Shaikh, to stick to Him, to journey with Him within ourselves, to all of the worlds within us, now we must learn that, "It is easy to talk about wisdom, but you have to hold on and stick to it." In this way, my dearest loving sister Rumi, we need to give up our life in the world, a life of "separation and differences", a life of "separation from" God, that we have learned to live with our brothers and sisters, in the world that we see in our ignorance as existing "outside" of us, for a life within our very own heart with our Shaikh, a life of "oneness with" God within us. And then learn to travel with our Shaikh to all of the realms within us, joining with Him within us as He makes His rounds within us, within all of us, to learn His job within us, within all of us within us, so as One with Him within us, we can do His job within us, within all of us within us, which in truth is the One Job within all of us, making our work within us in truth the divine work of wisdom, and of God within wisdom, within all of us within us. Only then will we be doing service to the Shaikh and service to God, not by trying to do duty in the world in the state of "separation and differences", in the state of "separation from" God, of "separation from" each other, and of "separation from" the Creation of God, that God has personally and so very lovingly placed within each of us. May we both learn to do this true duty to God, and this true duty to our Shaikh within us, for in truth they are One. For as Bawa teaches us, "Duty to the Shaikh is duty to God." 4. Closing Comments And Prayer - may we always be ready, at all times, to give up our life in the world, with our brothers and sister, for a life within our very own heart with our Shaikh My love you, my dearest loving sister Rumi. You are such a comfort to my life. Your struggle to establish a direct connection to Bawa within you is very helpful to this child. We are so very blessed by God to have each other while living within the heart of our Shaikh. This is a wonderful combination, like a "Reese's Cup", containing both peanut butter and chocolate. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluh. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. Please give my love and salams to all of our brothers and sisters and tell them that Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) loves them very much. We are all very good Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be please with Him), and we must be ready at all times to give up our life in the world, with our brothers and sisters, for a life within our very own hearts with our Shaikh, with our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). In this way, allowing our Shaikh within us to use our life to complete the intention of God and True Man within us, which is to reveal True Man within the Creation of God within us, which is this world or the dunya within us, and to reveal God within the Creation of True Man within us, which in the hereafter or the next world within us, which is akhirah within us. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. And please share this letter, as well as the 5 letters to Asma'el Muhaiyaddeen (Rick Hacket), with our brothers and sisters. Please do this very important work. My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). End of Spiritual Letter 29 - original version - ...................... or Go To Spiritual Letter 29: Table of Contents Expanded Version Outline & Summary Version Related Material or ( a top-down version of the Library Home Page) (a bottom-up version of the Library Home Page) |
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