About This Letter Return To Spiritual Letter 14: Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. My love you, my dearest brothers and sisters. Outline For This Web Page d. We Can't Make The World Wise - but we can give up the world and let wisdom live The Adventures of Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) Spiritual Letter 14 was and is a marvelous adventure for this child, which began with the New Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Study Group that was set up by this child on January 10, 2002, and a letter to this child from our brother Mike Katz asking "how the new study group was going to function?". Immediately running behind the Shaikh, behind our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) a beautiful letter was written on January 16, 2000 to Mike Katz from this child explaining how the new study group could function, within our hearts, sitting on the lap of God while Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) teaches His Children what they do not know, suggesting to Mike that he get off the floor and climb up on this lap of God with this child and drink in the life and teaching of His Holiness. Overcoming The Enemy of The Soul Subsequently this letter was posted as a Message at the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Study Group as "How Is This Group Going To Function", as well as put into the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Library as Spiritual Letter 12 with the title, "Overcoming The Enemy of The Soul". Click on Spiritual Letters to access this letter. In response to this letter Mike sent this child a letter explaining his position on spirituality, withdrawing from the new study group, and presenting a air of distance between our hearts, which at first was a little difficult for this child, but as always is the case in matters of the world, acted as a great catalyst for further adventure at the feet of His Holiness, at the feet of God for this age, as is the way of all great adventures. Doing "Nothing" Correctly is Doing Everything Right Next came a beautiful letter to Mike that went beyond all bounds of understanding of this child, moving into a realm of Islam that is of the Prophet of God, of Muhammadar Rasulullah (may the peace and blessings of God be upon Him), into the realm of tawhid, the affirmation of the Unity of Allah, which is the principal tenet of Islam. This letter was sent to Mike on January 18, 2002, put into the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Library as Spiritual Letter 13, which you can also access through Spiritual Letters, and given the esoteric title of "Doing Nothing Correctly is Doing Everything Right". Mike's response to this letter from this child was glorious, his heart had been touched and his mind had been shaken, cause it to sit down for a moment, if only for a moment, which is the subtle way of the path. Who Are We? Who is God? And What Is The Relationship Between Us? Next started a frenzy of activity that has not been known by this child since the first letter that was written by this child at the feet of His Holiness, back in April of 1989, in response to a letter from a brother in Nigeria, Africa, who asked the questions, 1. Who is Bawa Muhaiyaddeen? 2. What is the esoteric aspect of Islam? This letter resulted in a month long journey that culminated in a 70 page letter that was written during the month of Ramadan, the traditional Islamic month of fasting, and completed on the last day of Ramadan, for 1989, completed when His Holiness was done with it, and not a moment before or after, as was so abundantly clear to this child, for when it wasn't done it certainly wasn't done, and the moment it was done, we knew it was done without the slightest doubt. This is the way it is at the feet of His Holiness, my dearest loving brothers and sisters, as all who sit there know. When finished, this letter was given the title, "Who Are We? Who is God? And What Is The Relationship Between Us?", and a bound copy of the letter was given to each member of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship Executive Committee to read and join in, requesting that it be sent by the Fellowship to the brother in Africa. Currently this letter is not available in the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Library. If and when it becomes available, you can access it through the Children's Part of the Library, or directly through Spiritual Letters, as Spiritual Letter 01. In the mean time, if you would like to read this beautiful letter, send me your request at Muhaiyddeen786@aol.com, and we will arrange it, God willing. The Why, Where, How, & What of God & True Man This brings us to Spiritual Letter 14, which began with the letter from Mike Katz that this child received on January 18, 2002, which melted my heart, brought a tear to my eye, and expanded my understanding of the power of the grace of God, as reflected in the gift of God for our age, in the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), a letter which is reproduced here as follows: Letter From Mike Katz to Louie "Hi Louie." "Once again, thanks is due for the love, wisdom, and patience, which flows through your letter. We are as two friends, perhaps better a father and son, having a conversation about the most significant things there are, and how could anyone offend the other when all is done with such love?" "Please forgive the smallness of my understanding. You are touching points which are so subtle and so vital, and with which every soul has to grapple one time or another. If this becomes a tiresome or tedious business because of a lack of understanding on this side, please feel welcome to end the conversation." "Whether "this child" says "I", or "I" say "this child", both phrasings come from the ego, my true friend and brother. "This child" helps to remind one that the ego must be destroyed. For this child, "I", with its terrible arrogance, reminds this child that the ego is still there. This child will use your phrasings." "The ego which interferes with God is indeed the key to God, Louie. This was indeed what this child was trying to convey, but in less elegant terms than your letter. There was also the intention to convey that the practice of allowing God to work instead of oneself, is all that matters. Once this child, all children, hand everything over to God, one is not there anymore, truly, so what need for anything else?" "But this child is aware of the reality, that his wretched ego is still far too strong, and it is only on occasion that it can be coerced into disappearing for a short while, so that what is higher than it (even to name it as God is arrogant to this child) can manifest in place of the ego. And make no mistake, Louie, it is not this child that coerces. It cannot be, as you say, for one cannot pull oneself up with one's bootstraps. In any event, one does not want to (be) pulled up, one wants to be annihilated!" "So, the coercing must, as you so beautifully put it, come from outside. Bawa does it perhaps, or God, or some other Power which is far greater than this child. When It comes, It comes. It is grace, It is food, It is light, and ego hates It." "But then this stupid child sits between these two antagonists, such uneven ones, so little on the one side, and so great on the other, and this stupid child chooses the lesser, the darkness, the mortal, and rejects the greater, the light, the immortal. Instead of doing nothing, and allowing the Power to flow, this stupid wretch yanks itself away from That into the arms of death." "You speak a lot of what could be, brother, and what should be, and that gives strength and encouragement, but for this one here, this stupid one, there is a lack, a deficiency. As you say "Doing 'Nothing' correctly is doing everything right", even though "Never have the thought that there is something for you to do." "This child will read and re-read your letter, and attempt to leave it to God to understand." "Mike". About Louie's Letter Back To Mike Katz - which is Spiritual Letter 14 In response to this beautiful letter my whole life swung into action, it was as if a dam broke within me, and the grace of God washed over all the things within me, within all of us, for in truth there is only one of us, and made us clean again, as we were when we first came to this world, this world of all that God has discarded. Initially over the next whole day, then over the next three weeks, a beautiful letter was written to Mike, and to each of us, providing Mike, and each of us, with more nourishment for the soul, for the one soul within all of us, as well as more weapons for the wisdom surrounding the soul, for the one wisdom within all of us, so the awakened wisdom surrounding the soul could do battle with the enemy of the soul, could in Mike's case, do battle with Mike, because that is who wrote this beautiful letter from Mike, not Mike but his wisdom, which had been awakened from a long slumber, as the guardian of his soul, by the life and teaching of His Holiness, of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). This is how it really works, my dearest loving brothers and sisters. Know it now. Know The Enemy of Your Soul & Join With Wisdom To Win Over It For as His Holiness told us one day, in-the-room, "I have not come for you, I have come for your soul, to awaken the wisdom surrounding your soul, so the wisdom surrounding your soul can do battle with the enemy of your soul." And when this child heard this, I immediately asked His Holiness, "Bawa, who is the enemy of my soul?" And Bawa looked right at me and said, "You are!" And as His Holiness told this child, when this child was sitting at the foot of His bed each night, reading the book, "The Golden Words of a Sufi Shaikh", only weeks before His Holiness left this world, reading "Golden Words" at the foot of His bed at the personal invitation of His Holiness, watching the heart within this child open to the glorious words of God revealed in the 958 Golden Sayings in this book, and having become overwhelmed with the grace of it all, finally presently myself to the Shaikh, saying to Him, "O Bawa, this is wonderful, these Golden Sayings are so wonderful." And His Holiness looked at this child and said, "Only wisdom would say that!" So it is, my dearest loving bothers and sisters, only wisdom loves wisdom, as only God loves God, and as the flip side of this, as the flip side of each of us, only the world loves the world, and we have all three within us, God, wisdom, and the world. And we must realize, understand, accept, and embrace all three of these as who we are, not the dream of separation and differences that we are currently experiencing, and then use our wisdom against "us", against the "world" of us, to reveal the God of us, by revealing True man within the world of us, as the Oneness of God and His Creation, allowing the True Man of us to reveal the God of us within the True Man of us. We Can't Make The World Wise - but we can give up the world and let wisdom live We can't make the world wise, as we can't make us into True Man, into the oneness of God and His Creation, nor can "we" as separate from God pray to God, an act of oneness which is reserved for True Man alone, but we can accept the world as who we currently are, as what we have through our ignorance become one with, and we can accept the Shaikh as the True Man secretly hidden within us in the world, as the apple tree is secretly hidden with the apple seed buried in the earth. And we can join in partnership with this wisdom surrounding our soul, handing it what it needs to be victorious over the enemy of our soul, which is "us" living in the world that we see as existing "outside" of us, living a life of "separation from", a life of separation and differences, of "mine" and "yours", of "my life" and "your life", of "my body" and "your body", of "my wife and children" and "your wife and children", which in truth is all the hell of us. We can't make the world wise, and we can't make us True Man, but we can do this, we can let all that we currently are end, so the life of wisdom hidden within us, the life of True Man hidden within us, can begin, can live, as the apple seed ends, the apple seed dies, so the apple tree hidden within it can begin, can live. We can do this, with our iman and our wisdom, with our faith, certitude, and determination in God, and with our direct connection to God, through the gift of God for our age, through the life and teaching of His Holiness, of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), we can do this, we can do this part, which in truth is our only part, a very important part from the perspective or our soul, our wisdom, and God, from the perspective of the Three hidden within us, which can only become One within us, if do our part of ending. May we all reflect on these beautiful words of iman and wisdom, my dearest loving brothers and sisters. May God give us the grace to do this. Amen. My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). End of About Spiritual Letter 14 .................................................. Return To Spiritual Letter 14 |
About This Letter Return To Spiritual Letter 14: Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. My love you, my dearest brothers and sisters. Outline For This Web Page d. We Can't Make The World Wise - but we can give up the world and let wisdom live The Adventures of Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) Spiritual Letter 14 was and is a marvelous adventure for this child, which began with the New Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Study Group that was set up by this child on January 10, 2002, and a letter to this child from our brother Mike Katz asking "how the new study group was going to function?". Immediately running behind the Shaikh, behind our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) a beautiful letter was written on January 16, 2000 to Mike Katz from this child explaining how the new study group could function, within our hearts, sitting on the lap of God while Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) teaches His Children what they do not know, suggesting to Mike that he get off the floor and climb up on this lap of God with this child and drink in the life and teaching of His Holiness. Overcoming The Enemy of The Soul Subsequently this letter was posted as a Message at the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Study Group as "How Is This Group Going To Function", as well as put into the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Library as Spiritual Letter 12 with the title, "Overcoming The Enemy of The Soul". Click on Spiritual Letters to access this letter. In response to this letter Mike sent this child a letter explaining his position on spirituality, withdrawing from the new study group, and presenting a air of distance between our hearts, which at first was a little difficult for this child, but as always is the case in matters of the world, acted as a great catalyst for further adventure at the feet of His Holiness, at the feet of God for this age, as is the way of all great adventures. Doing "Nothing" Correctly is Doing Everything Right Next came a beautiful letter to Mike that went beyond all bounds of understanding of this child, moving into a realm of Islam that is of the Prophet of God, of Muhammadar Rasulullah (may the peace and blessings of God be upon Him), into the realm of tawhid, the affirmation of the Unity of Allah, which is the principal tenet of Islam. This letter was sent to Mike on January 18, 2002, put into the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Library as Spiritual Letter 13, which you can also access through Spiritual Letters, and given the esoteric title of "Doing Nothing Correctly is Doing Everything Right". Mike's response to this letter from this child was glorious, his heart had been touched and his mind had been shaken, cause it to sit down for a moment, if only for a moment, which is the subtle way of the path. Who Are We? Who is God? And What Is The Relationship Between Us? Next started a frenzy of activity that has not been known by this child since the first letter that was written by this child at the feet of His Holiness, back in April of 1989, in response to a letter from a brother in Nigeria, Africa, who asked the questions, 1. Who is Bawa Muhaiyaddeen? 2. What is the esoteric aspect of Islam? This letter resulted in a month long journey that culminated in a 70 page letter that was written during the month of Ramadan, the traditional Islamic month of fasting, and completed on the last day of Ramadan, for 1989, completed when His Holiness was done with it, and not a moment before or after, as was so abundantly clear to this child, for when it wasn't done it certainly wasn't done, and the moment it was done, we knew it was done without the slightest doubt. This is the way it is at the feet of His Holiness, my dearest loving brothers and sisters, as all who sit there know. When finished, this letter was given the title, "Who Are We? Who is God? And What Is The Relationship Between Us?", and a bound copy of the letter was given to each member of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship Executive Committee to read and join in, requesting that it be sent by the Fellowship to the brother in Africa. Currently this letter is not available in the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Library. If and when it becomes available, you can access it through the Children's Part of the Library, or directly through Spiritual Letters, as Spiritual Letter 01. In the mean time, if you would like to read this beautiful letter, send me your request at Muhaiyddeen786@aol.com, and we will arrange it, God willing. The Why, Where, How, & What of God & True Man This brings us to Spiritual Letter 14, which began with the letter from Mike Katz that this child received on January 18, 2002, which melted my heart, brought a tear to my eye, and expanded my understanding of the power of the grace of God, as reflected in the gift of God for our age, in the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), a letter which is reproduced here as follows: Letter From Mike Katz to Louie "Hi Louie." "Once again, thanks is due for the love, wisdom, and patience, which flows through your letter. We are as two friends, perhaps better a father and son, having a conversation about the most significant things there are, and how could anyone offend the other when all is done with such love?" "Please forgive the smallness of my understanding. You are touching points which are so subtle and so vital, and with which every soul has to grapple one time or another. If this becomes a tiresome or tedious business because of a lack of understanding on this side, please feel welcome to end the conversation." "Whether "this child" says "I", or "I" say "this child", both phrasings come from the ego, my true friend and brother. "This child" helps to remind one that the ego must be destroyed. For this child, "I", with its terrible arrogance, reminds this child that the ego is still there. This child will use your phrasings." "The ego which interferes with God is indeed the key to God, Louie. This was indeed what this child was trying to convey, but in less elegant terms than your letter. There was also the intention to convey that the practice of allowing God to work instead of oneself, is all that matters. Once this child, all children, hand everything over to God, one is not there anymore, truly, so what need for anything else?" "But this child is aware of the reality, that his wretched ego is still far too strong, and it is only on occasion that it can be coerced into disappearing for a short while, so that what is higher than it (even to name it as God is arrogant to this child) can manifest in place of the ego. And make no mistake, Louie, it is not this child that coerces. It cannot be, as you say, for one cannot pull oneself up with one's bootstraps. In any event, one does not want to (be) pulled up, one wants to be annihilated!" "So, the coercing must, as you so beautifully put it, come from outside. Bawa does it perhaps, or God, or some other Power which is far greater than this child. When It comes, It comes. It is grace, It is food, It is light, and ego hates It." "But then this stupid child sits between these two antagonists, such uneven ones, so little on the one side, and so great on the other, and this stupid child chooses the lesser, the darkness, the mortal, and rejects the greater, the light, the immortal. Instead of doing nothing, and allowing the Power to flow, this stupid wretch yanks itself away from That into the arms of death." "You speak a lot of what could be, brother, and what should be, and that gives strength and encouragement, but for this one here, this stupid one, there is a lack, a deficiency. As you say "Doing 'Nothing' correctly is doing everything right", even though "Never have the thought that there is something for you to do." "This child will read and re-read your letter, and attempt to leave it to God to understand." "Mike". About Louie's Letter Back To Mike Katz - which is Spiritual Letter 14 In response to this beautiful letter my whole life swung into action, it was as if a dam broke within me, and the grace of God washed over all the things within me, within all of us, for in truth there is only one of us, and made us clean again, as we were when we first came to this world, this world of all that God has discarded. Initially over the next whole day, then over the next three weeks, a beautiful letter was written to Mike, and to each of us, providing Mike, and each of us, with more nourishment for the soul, for the one soul within all of us, as well as more weapons for the wisdom surrounding the soul, for the one wisdom within all of us, so the awakened wisdom surrounding the soul could do battle with the enemy of the soul, could in Mike's case, do battle with Mike, because that is who wrote this beautiful letter from Mike, not Mike but his wisdom, which had been awakened from a long slumber, as the guardian of his soul, by the life and teaching of His Holiness, of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). This is how it really works, my dearest loving brothers and sisters. Know it now. Know The Enemy of Your Soul & Join With Wisdom To Win Over It For as His Holiness told us one day, in-the-room, "I have not come for you, I have come for your soul, to awaken the wisdom surrounding your soul, so the wisdom surrounding your soul can do battle with the enemy of your soul." And when this child heard this, I immediately asked His Holiness, "Bawa, who is the enemy of my soul?" And Bawa looked right at me and said, "You are!" And as His Holiness told this child, when this child was sitting at the foot of His bed each night, reading the book, "The Golden Words of a Sufi Shaikh", only weeks before His Holiness left this world, reading "Golden Words" at the foot of His bed at the personal invitation of His Holiness, watching the heart within this child open to the glorious words of God revealed in the 958 Golden Sayings in this book, and having become overwhelmed with the grace of it all, finally presently myself to the Shaikh, saying to Him, "O Bawa, this is wonderful, these Golden Sayings are so wonderful." And His Holiness looked at this child and said, "Only wisdom would say that!" So it is, my dearest loving bothers and sisters, only wisdom loves wisdom, as only God loves God, and as the flip side of this, as the flip side of each of us, only the world loves the world, and we have all three within us, God, wisdom, and the world. And we must realize, understand, accept, and embrace all three of these as who we are, not the dream of separation and differences that we are currently experiencing, and then use our wisdom against "us", against the "world" of us, to reveal the God of us, by revealing True man within the world of us, as the Oneness of God and His Creation, allowing the True Man of us to reveal the God of us within the True Man of us. We Can't Make The World Wise - but we can give up the world and let wisdom live We can't make the world wise, as we can't make us into True Man, into the oneness of God and His Creation, nor can "we" as separate from God pray to God, an act of oneness which is reserved for True Man alone, but we can accept the world as who we currently are, as what we have through our ignorance become one with, and we can accept the Shaikh as the True Man secretly hidden within us in the world, as the apple tree is secretly hidden with the apple seed buried in the earth. And we can join in partnership with this wisdom surrounding our soul, handing it what it needs to be victorious over the enemy of our soul, which is "us" living in the world that we see as existing "outside" of us, living a life of "separation from", a life of separation and differences, of "mine" and "yours", of "my life" and "your life", of "my body" and "your body", of "my wife and children" and "your wife and children", which in truth is all the hell of us. We can't make the world wise, and we can't make us True Man, but we can do this, we can let all that we currently are end, so the life of wisdom hidden within us, the life of True Man hidden within us, can begin, can live, as the apple seed ends, the apple seed dies, so the apple tree hidden within it can begin, can live. We can do this, with our iman and our wisdom, with our faith, certitude, and determination in God, and with our direct connection to God, through the gift of God for our age, through the life and teaching of His Holiness, of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), we can do this, we can do this part, which in truth is our only part, a very important part from the perspective or our soul, our wisdom, and God, from the perspective of the Three hidden within us, which can only become One within us, if do our part of ending. May we all reflect on these beautiful words of iman and wisdom, my dearest loving brothers and sisters. May God give us the grace to do this. Amen. My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). End of About Spiritual Letter 14 .................................................. Return To Spiritual Letter 14 |
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