FANA~ (SUFI TERM FOR TOTAL INNIHILATION OF THE SELF INTO GOD)

Salaam(peace) children;

The toughest lesson to learn for most intermediate to advanced students of spiritual growth into ONENESS, is how to recognize and let go of the EGO games.
Who gets offended for one reason or another almost daily? Who's feelings get hurt when expectations are not met? Who sits at judgment of others as to their worthiness and place in life? Who gets satisfaction from praise? Who collects stuff of this world and proudly displays them? You want another good one? Who is so patriotic as to forget the ONENESS of life? Zeal for the religion or belief systems? Pride in a piece of painted cloth?These are SRPC's, Societal Ritualistic Pagan Ceremonies!

All, is EGO, vanity of vanities as king Solomon would say, all is vanity my child. The moment we dishonor a teacher or an elder, the times when we dishonor and destroy the face of our mother Earth, we have allowed the Ego to be in charge. How about when we strut our stuff of positions and possessions?

If There is ever any hope for the wonderers of this planet to be free of the cycles of birth and death my child, it is to come humbly before the SOURCE OF ALL MATTER AND NON-MATTER, to gladly accept and be ready to accept total annihilation of the EGO SELF into the ONE SELF that is GOD. This ancient wisdom has been passed on by most teachers and masters of time in one way or another. Christ put it like this: "you must first die onto your self before being born into the spirit". The Muslim/Sufi way says it in one word: FANAA!"Total annihilation of the self ego into GOD's essence". Much like a drop of water finally accepting that the Ocean is where it came from and plunging into it to BE no more!

And yet my children, it is not a doing, but a being that is required of us. Being present daily at the table of the Beloved, Allowing the Light to pour in over our Beingness, to go on humbly taking care of the world, fetch the wood and carry the water, always waiting, always anticipating the freedom from FORM AND FORMLESSNESS. Kings have come and gone, look beyond the stuff of this material world and seek my child a daily connection to your eternal home!



ONLY GOD ALWAYS GOD ALL GOD ALONE GOD ONLY