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 15 th - 17 th join us for a special weekend and celebration of Pir Vilayat’s Urs.
Yaqin Aubert and friends, June 19 th remember and attune to the being of Pir Vilayat on his birthday .
Naima Khabira Brown & Taj a Nur Grant, August 11 th - 12 th 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 3 rd - 4 th indigenous teachings weekend.
Pir Zia Inayat Khan August 30 th – Sept. 2 nd 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 -7 The 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- 28 th 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 Center 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. The Center is located in the house that was formerly occupied by Pir Vilayat, Pir Zia and their families at the Abode.
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 summer 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.
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