A Course of Meditation

by
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
Inspired by the vision of
Hazrat Inayat Khan
 
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Jewish Wailing Women
Rudra Vina
Rudra Vina 2
Turkish Call to Prayer

Allegri
Miserere

Abed Azrie
Murmur of the Breeze

Johann Sebastian Bach
Fugue in F major
Magnificat
Partita No. 1 in B
  minor

Prelude in F major
Prelude to St. John's
  Passion

Sonalast Partitas
St. John's Passion,
  Lamentation


Ludwig von Beethoven
4th Piano Concerto

Pandit Kashinath Bodas
Raga Komal Rishabh
  Asavari


Johannes Brahms
4th Symphony

Max Bruch
Kol Nidre

Deuter
Nada Himalaya

Choying Drolma
Tibetan Chant

Ghazal
Traces of the Beloved

Lama Gyurmé
Lama's Chant
The Tsok Offering

Sha heedi
Sâghee
  Nâme (Sufi
  Nâme)


Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
1st Jhana
2nd Jhana: The
  Thinking Behind the
  Universe

3rd Jhana: The Emotion
  Behind the Universe

4th Jhana: The
  Consciousness
  Behind the Universe

A Transfigured World:
  the View from Within

A View of the World;
  Satipathana and
  Jhanas Stage1

Absorbing Light,
  Radiating Light

All Pervading Light
As a Promise of
  Resurrection

Attachment and Pain
Attuning to
  Glorification

Awakening the Glance
  of the Dervish

Being a Being of Light
Beyond Consciousness
Breathing from Within
Buddhism and Sufism
Cleansing the Emotions
  with Light

Clues in Our Psyche
Consciousness Becomes
  Infinite

Converging the Light
  of the Stars

Dervish Heart
  Meditation

Developing Light in
  the Eyes

Espy the Thinking of
  the Universe

Everlastingness and
  Eternity

Filtering Impressions
  (2 Immune Systems)

Finding Freedom from
  the Constraint of
  Impressions

God-consciousness
Image of the Pendulum
Image of the Vortex
  Energy Practice

Imagining an Archangel
  of Light

Impact of Situations
  on the Self

Impact of the Self on
  Situations

Keys to Meditation
Light in a Secondary
  Chakra: Eyes

Light in the 1st Chakra
Light in the 2nd Chakra
Light in the 3rd Chakra
Light in the 4th
  Chakra: Heart Center

Light in the 5th
  Chakra: Throat
  Center

Light in the 6th
  Chakra: Third Eye

Light in the 7th
  Chakra: Crown Center

Light in the Chakras:
  Introduction

Matching Latencies
Muhasibi: What Do I
  Value in Life?

Observing Yourself
  (Muhasibi / Jhanana
  Darshana)

Our Purpose is
  Awakening

Palace of Mirrors
Perception and Desire
Reflections
Seeing Beauty
Shifting Perspectives
Starry Sky Meditation
Steps to
  Transcendence:
  Seeking Nirvana

Steps to Turning Within
The Bounty of Life
The Glance, 1 & 2
The Glance, 3: That
  Which Transpires

The Glance, 4:
  Purifying the Glance

The Glance, 5: The
  Eyes Through Which
  God Sees

The Glance, 6: The
  Divine Glance

The Glance, 7: Shahid
The Process of Ta'wil
The Vortex
This Become Does Not
  Lead to the
  Non-Become

Thrust into Existence
Universe as Beings of
  Light

Visualizing the Body
  as a Crystal

Watch Your Body
Watch Your
  Consciousness


Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
Watch Your Personality

Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
Watch Your Thoughts
We are a Condition of
  God


Light Shows
Kirlian Photography
Fractal Journey
Impressions of the
  Cosmos

Sun Rises

Nathan and Joseph
We Shall Be Healed

Rustavi Choir
Gregorian Chant

Saki Lee and Shams Kairys
Thy Light is in All
  Forms


Sirin Choir
Russian Chants

Tallis Scholars
Victoria Tenebrae
  Responsories


Tibetan Buddhist Nuns of the Kopan Monastery
Track 13

Andrew Lloyd Webber
Pie Jesu
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan: Breathing from Within            Go back

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© Abode of the Message, August 2001

You see the secret really is in how we conceptualize our breathing. Because normally when we breathe we, well we assume that we are absorbing oxygen from the environment and exhaling neutrogen. But actually, we exist on several planes and at the level of energy we are drawing energy from the environment.

So when we inhale, we always think that we are moving from outside towards inside or shifting energy from outside to inside. So there’s a way of breathing that is rather strange and remarkable. One can breathe as though from inside, as though one were calling the emergence of aspects of oneself that are subliminal into being actuated in our being.

(pause)

We generally think that turning within is shifting our attention from outside towards inside and there’s always a danger of getting encapsulated in that sense of what we mean by inside. Whereas, really speaking, it is reaching out from within.

So that reflects in our way of breathing, draw energy through let’s say your solar plexus as you inhale. Imagine that your solar plexus is a door that can open towards inside or towards outside. So now it is opening from inside towards outside as you breathe in. And now, as you hold your breath you are the transducers who are converting all pervading light into radiant light. So that when you exhale, you are radiating that light that was originally not radiating but was all pervading.

© 2002 Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan