Pir
Vilayat Center for Meditation and Retreat
Welcome
to the Pir Vilayat Center for Meditation and Retreat at the Abode.
The Center seeks to preserve and disseminate the inspiration and
teachings of Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan. The Center is located at the
Abode in New Lebanon, NY. We are developing an archive of material
related to Pir Vilayat’s life and teachings.
We
offer contemplative visits, individual and small group retreats.
2019
Guest teachers. Please see the Abode web site for details.
Nur
Azad Mangold & Suhrawardi Gebel***,*June 15th- 17th join
us for a special weekend and celebration of Pir
Vilayat’s Urs.
Yaqin
Aubert and friends, June
19th remember
and attune to the being of Pir
Vilayat on
his birthday.
Naima
Khabira Brown & Taj a Nur Grant, August
11th- 12th Sacred Arts -
this weekend retreat offers the opportunity to deepen your connection
to inner guidance through the medium of creative art, amidst the
beauty and inspiration of nature, and the warmth of joyful
friendship.
Grandmother
Sasa, August 3rd***- 4***th indigenous
teachings weekend.
Pir
Zia Inayat KhanAugust
30th– Sept. 2nd
Alone with the
Alone: A Silent Retreat
w/ Pir Zia , August 30 – Sept. 2 – see below for more information
about Pir Zia.
Nur
Azad Mangold , September
21st - 22nd a
weekend of Kinship focusing on inclusion, racism, sexism and
patriarchy. Or “A weekend and it would be on the Seven Leading
Names and how they apply to kinship both inter-personally and
socially.”
Himayat
Inayati, October 4 -7The Universal Human This
three to five day retreat at The Pir Vilayat Center will be an
introduction and exploration of al-Insān
al-Kāmil, the universal human, a transpersonal archetype activating
each of us to manifest as a unique exemplar.
Wahhab
& Batina Sheets Oct.
18- 28th
teachers in residence.
Aziza
Scott, Dec. 29 -31
? New
Years Eve Retreat
Pir
Vilayat archives at the Pir Vilayat Center at the Abode
We
are acquiring donations of Pir Vilayat materials to build a
repository of his work for future studies and use at the Ceneter as
a supliment to the archives in the Inayati Order archives in
Richmond, VA. Our goal is to facilitate this material for students of
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan and those who wish to know more about his
teachings. And have it available to those who wish to come to the
Abode for studies.
Recent acquisitions:
We
have two copies of Mikhail Horowitz’s book Illumination: Saga of
a Spiritual Master. I highly
recommend this book on the life of Pir Vilayat. Pir Zia says about
this book that it is “an inspiring portrait of my father brimming
with unique observations drawn from long years of closeness”.
Mikhail
begins the book with a quote from Pir Vilayat, “We are all on a
great journey. It’s like the horizon, the further you advance, the
further you realize that what you thought you saw recedes, and the
truth lies further and further away; you realize that you have to be
able to wreck your systems on the rock of truth, know how to walk
into unknown lands without fear, how to trust beyond all proof. You
know who is journeying; it is God who is journeying.” The Great
Journey. On Amazon you can read the first six pages. The book costs
$15.95 in paperback. Best to search for “Illumination,
the Saga of a Spiritual Master” or for “Illumination by
Mikhail Horowitz.”
Also,
the library acquired a copy of Autobiography of Fatha Engle
edited by Qahira Qalbi. Fatha
met Murshida Rabia Martin, the first murid of Hazrat Inayat Khan in
the United States, in San Francisco. Early in 1923, Hazrat Inayat
Khan arrived in the United States for a lecture tour. On Hazrat
Inayat Khan’s first day in San Francisco, Rabia arranged an
appointment with him for each of her students. During this month of
March, 1923 Fatha and other pupils of Rabia Martin were initiated by
Hazrat Inayat Khan into the Sufi Order (now the Inayati Order).
Inayat Khan invited Fatha to come with him to his home in Suresnes,
France, which he did for two years.
Pir
Vilayat quotes available: starting this spring the Pir Vilayat
Center will make available the opportunity to receive a quote from
Pir Vilayat every day in your email in box. These very short quotes
are from a selection made some years ago by Arifa Miller. They were
first published as a set of “Alchemical Wisdom” cards. They are
now available as a small booklet from Suluk Press/Omega Publications
– www.omegapub.com.
Aziza’s
memories serialized: Aziza Scott, a long time close associate,
has captured some of her memories of Pir Vilayat in a wonderful
booklet. Exerts from her booklet will be serialized on the web site.
Watch for it this summer.
Pir
Zia Inayat-Khan: here is a partial list of Pir Zia’s schedule
for 2019 in north America. For a complete list, please contact the
Inayati Order north American headquarters in Richmod, VA
www.inayatiorder.org.
Season
of the Rose: Essentials of the Sufi Path June 26 - July 1,
Portland, OR.
Alone
with the Alone: A Silent Retreat w/ Pir Zia Inayat-Khan, August
30 – Sept. 2, at the Abode, New Lebanon, NY
Pir
Zia Inayat-Khan, the son of Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, familiarly known
as Sarafil Bawa, is a teacher of Sufism in the lineage of his
grandfather, Hazrat Inayat Khan. He received his Ph.D. in Religion
from Duke University. His books include Saracen Chivalry: Counsels on
Valor, Generosity, and the Mystical Quest and Mingled Waters: Sufism
and the Mystical Unity of Religions. Pir Zia is president of The
Inayati Order and founder of Suluk Academy. Now based in Richmond,
Virginia, Pir Zia frequently travels. His schedule can be found at
www.pirzia.org/calendar/.
**Donations:**The Center is continuing to accept financial donations. donations
of books and other material by or related to Pir Vilayat and on the
topics of the interface between spirituality, science and psychology,
cassette tapes or CDs of his meditations and talks, and papers
related to Pir Vilayat.
For
questions or donations contact:
Yaqin
Aubert, director of the Pir Vilayat Center for Meditation and Retreat
at the Abode.
yaqin@theabode.org
www.vilayatcenter.org
5
Abode Road, New Lebanon, NY, USA 12125
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