River of Guidance
River of Guidance is a program offering short online experiential courses, to further deepen into the heart of our lineage wisdom and practice. The River of Guidance flowing through our silsila inspires us to look afresh at how we apply perennial wisdom to our life conditions and how we manifest our realization in service to the world we are part of.
Two Sundays: December 7 and 14
10:00 - 11:30 am Pacific / UTC -8
1:00 - 2:30 pm Eastern / UTC -5
6:00 - 7:30 pm UK / UTC 0
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Registration closes December 5th.You will receive the Zoom and class recording links after you register
Join us for A Musical Feast of song and chant. We are blessed to receive the heart medicine that devotional music provides, and fortunate to have so many musicians in our Ruhaniat family who carry a deep devotional attunement in their music.
We will gather together for communion in harmonic resonance invoking light, harmony, and beauty. Raising our voices and hearts together, we hold the vision of a future that is wholesome and welcoming to all. Now is a healing time.
Musical guests include Pir Shabda and Pirani Tamam Kahn, Allaudin Ottinger, Malika Salazar, Kabir McKinnon and Mirabai Wolf Willow, Halima and Abraham Sussman, Maitreya Jon Stevens, Aliela Gorzaltchik, Munir Reynolds, Jahanara Mangus, Petaluma Livelli, Vipul Rikhi, and Petuka Arcimovicova.
A Musical Feast
Where Everything is Music
Don’t worry about saving these songs!
And if one of our instruments breaks,
it doesn’t matter
We have fallen into the place
where everything is music.
The strumming and the flute notes
rise into the atmosphere,
and even if the whole world’s harp
should burn up, there will still be
hidden instruments playing.
So the candle flickers and goes out.
We have a piece of flint, and a spark.
This singing art is sea foam.
The graceful movements come from a pearl
somewhere on the ocean floor.
Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge
of driftwood along the beach, wanting!
They derive
from a slow and powerful root
that we can’t see.
Stop the words now.
Open the window in the center of your chest,
and let the spirit fly in and out.
Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks