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30th Nov 2021

Self Abandonment to Divine Providence, Jean Pierre de Caussade P.141

Reza Shah-Kazemi offers a series of readings following the ''thread'' of the tapestry of wisdom woven for us by Saints and Sages of our spiritual traditions. He begins with a reading from Jean-Pierre de Caussade's magisterial ''Self-Abandonment to Divine Providence'', where the image of the tapestry of life is presented in a way which clarifies the distinction between the fragmentary, human view of the tapestry of life, seen from ''below'', and the harmony, beauty and ''justice'' of life, seen from above, sub specie aeternitatis. This followed by readings from Dr Martin Lings's ''The Secret of Shakespeare'', following the thread of this revealing imagery. Then passages from the following: Frithjof Schoun's ''The Play of Masks''; Kenryo Kanamatsu's ''Naturalness'' (widely regarded as an authoritative contemporary exposition of the quintessence of Jodo-Shinshu Japanese Buddhism); Ibn Ata'illah Al-Sakandari's masterpiece of Islamic Gnosis ''Al-Hikam'' (''Words of Wisdom''); St Augustine's ''Confessions''; Plato's ''Republic''; Aristotle’s ''Poetics''; Etc.

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GREEN KNIGHT MULTIMEDIA PODCAST
From Mythology to Cosmology and Spirituality
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The best way of encapsulating the central motif, the particular constellation of ideas that motivated the production of this company and the philosophy underlying this project is the following quotation from one of our great teachers Dr. Martin Lings, otherwise known as Shaykh Abū Bakr Sirāj al-Dīn, who died in 2005 at the age of 96 ; “Our aim is to express some of the universal truths which lie at the heart of all religions” quoted from the preface of his book The Book of Certainty.

Part of our aim and part of what driven us is trying to re-present the legacy of Dr. Lings and there by the Perennial Philosophy in the English language with the emphasis of the audio access. We want people to be able to hear on themes of perennial philosophy , comparative religion, and the deeper aspect of the mystical path in the traditions and to do this in a way that will be accessible on the internet through the spoken word with the emphasis of going back to tradition. In a certain way this new medium can be used in a postmodern way to actually go back to the pre-modern realities, to traditional realities and to traditional ways of expressing this wonderful truth that have been giving to all of us by the Almighty through all of our traditions and cultures.
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A life long seeker of Sacred knowledge, Saqib explored Eastern and Western spirituality, which sparked in him a search for Truth or object Reality beyond one’s cultural or religious conditioning. He found answers to such metaphysical questions in the Qur’an itself through the works of Ibn Arabi, Rumi and other great sages in the Islamic tradition. He has studied with authorised masters of Sufi tradition