Sufi Teachings
Pir Zia Inayat Khan and Aziza Scott
July 28th – August 2nd 

In addition to the basic price please add CHF 64, US$ 75, pound 38 or Euro 50 for this program

The human condition consists of much more than a random and meaningless stream of sensory impressions and conditioned reactions.  Life is an odyssey of discovery.  Human consciousness originates from, and ultimately returns to, the oceanic intelligence of Reality itself, the infinite and eternal fountainhead of Life.  From a mystical perspective it can be said that a human life-story is nothing more or less than an angle of vision by which Existence surveys the flowering of its own immortal beauty and thereby obtains the deep satisfaction and fulfillment of self-awareness.  Wider vision, greater awareness, deeper fulfillment: this is the expanding horizon of the journey that is human life.

This weeklong retreat is a plunge into the depths of human experience, where the life of the part meets the life of the whole.  Practicing silence, awareness of breath, attunement to the elements, contemplation of the sacred order of the cosmos, prayer, meditation, and divine remembrance, participants will be guided on an inner journey in pursuance of that for which the soul yearns.

PZIK

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.
Aziza

Aziza Scott, M.Ed. has been a student of the retreat process for over 30 years working closely with Pir Vilayat and Pir Zia Inayat Khan. She is currently working as the Head of the Esoteric School, and Director of the Retreat Guide Training Program for the Sufi Order International, and as a teacher for Suluk Academy at the Abode of the Message in New Lebanon, NY. Aziza has many years experience leading individual and group retreat.   

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