Understanding and Following the Naqshbandi Sufi Path by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee is a Sheikh of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order. Born in London in 1953, he has followed the Naqshbandi Sufi path since he was 19. In 1991 he moved to Northern California and became the successor of Irina Tweedie, author of Chasm of Fire and Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master.

The philosophies of Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee when summarized will tell us these things:

• As we still reify the experiences of our psychological consciousness into objects, things—the co modification of the world. This gives us the illusion of distance and the fantasy of material causation, of ownership, of a matter independent of us.

• We experience ourselves as distant from one another, distant from nature, distant from the stars to find ourselves alone, perpetually “elsewhere,” rather than here. Distance in turn gives rise to violence and aggression, to the urge to separate, dominate, control, manipulate, compete, possess. In other words, we lack intimacy—with the world, the divine, and ourselves.

• That thought has led to the dawning realization that art—human making—is much greater than we thought, that all human activities can become “art.” One of the things that has been happening is the rediscovery of art not as a thing, but a process, a craft, a skill, a way of being, always “working” in-between—in-between matter and spirit, subject and object, self and other, maker and witness—celebrating “the flesh of the world.”

• Even if the world of reality will simply divest ourselves of the weighty burden of our habits, knowledge, and memories, we are free to make all things new.

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