Week 3A
PIR ZIA, ZUMURRUD BUTTA & MUNIR
Cultivating Wisdom
August 2nd - August 7th 2010
In addition to the basic price please add
CHF 110, US$ 110, £66 or Euro 75 for this program
Wisdom is a special kind of knowledge: the living knowledge that arises in the space of mystery between heaven and earth,
ideal and reality, self and other. This knowledge cannot be taught or learned, but it can be cultivated, and this cultivation is the purpose of Sufism.
Pir Zia Inayat Khan.
Pir Zia Inayat Khan is the son and successor of Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan. He is the president and spiritual leader of the Sufi Order International (established by Hazrat Inayat Khan in London, 1917) and founding director of the Suluk Academy, an esoteric school of the Sufi Order International located in upstate New York. In addition to the interfaith mystical training he has received from his father, Pir Zia has studied Buddhism under the auspices of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and Sufism in the classical Indian tradition of the Chishtiyya.
Zumurrud Butta
Zumurrud Butta has been a student on the Sufi path for more than 20 years. In the lineage of Hazrat Inayat Khan she serves in the Esoteric Training Committee and as European vice-president of the Universal Worship. She lives in Vienna, Austria, where she has done research and worked in the field of human rights. Zumurrud teaches Sufism and leads retreats in many countries, and is one of Pir Zia's faculty partners of Suluk Academy.&xnbsp;
Munir Voss
Munir Voss has studied philosophy, physics, psychology, and astrology. He began to meditate in 1970 and has been a disciple of Pir Vilayat since 1980. Since 1981 he has been leading the Heidelberg Sufi Center. For several years now Munir has been one of the main people responsible for the training of retreat guides and leaders in the Sufi Order International. The main focus of his work is the retreat concentration.