18/10/2022
May we open our palms in prayer.
May we open our hearts in prayer.
May we open every cell of our being in prayer.
May we open every strand of our awareness in prayer.
May our breath become prayer.
May our intentions become prayer.
May our perception itself become prayer.
May our intellection become prayer.
May our studies become prayer.
May our relationships become prayer.
May our longing become prayer.
May even our physical hunger become a form of prayer.
May every atom of the universe open and manifest the divine
light that is its inherent nature, which is a nature of sheer
openness, of emptiness of limited attributes.
May we see the transparency of Reality.
May we come into the embrace of that Reality, which is
supreme love, a love not based on subject or object, a love
not based on emotions or limited expectations, but a pure
love which flows like a cascade from the very heart of Divine
Essence, which manifests as the universe, which manifests as
all of the living souls, all of the precious creations of Allah,
created male and female as a mystic expression of the divine
completeness.
May all of this become transparent to the gaze of our heart.
May we really understand all of this as La ilaha illallah, all of
this as the manifestation of the nur of tawhid (light of unity).
May we become conscious beings of unity.
168 living open space
May our kiss be a kiss of unity.
May our embrace be an embrace of unity.
May our language be a language of unity.
May we have the language of eyvallah, of alhamdulillah, of
ma’shallah, of Allahu akbar.
May we actually beautify not only our conventional speech
but the communications of our heart with the beautiful name,
Allah.
May we be constantly singing the most beautiful divine names.
May we cry out, “Ya Alim—Allah is the only knower. Allah is
knowledge!”
May we revere knowledge wherever we find it, in whatever
noble tradition.
May we become the arifs—the knowers, the Gnostics.
Amin, Al hamdulillah-i-rabbi’l alamin.
(Let us recite:) Al-Fatiha!
Lex Hixon's extemporaneous dua at the end of a dhikr ceremony from the early 1990’s.
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