Talat Halman
My blogs
- The Emerald Tablet
- The Emerald Tablet
- pathofishq
- Meher Baba
- Emerald Buddha
- Sunset's Light
- Love and Beauty
- EDUCARE SHARE
- Avatar Sahib-i Zaman Meher Baba
- Ruzbihan
- Zumurrudiyya
- Art of Union with Reality
- Cosmic Heroism: The Lived Truth of Creation
- Book of the Heart
- Sufi Flashes
- mehera-meher
- Hermaion
- HERMETICARING
- Vital Ideas: the Cast Call for Heroes
- Emerald Sunlight
- Salik & Mazjub
- True Genius
- Art of Union with Reality
- Time is absolutely relative
- Meher Baba's "Final Declaration:" What Is the Meaning of "Destruction?"
- WebEx Links
- Summation
- Christ Bhakta Darshan
- Knight of Faith
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Location | Mount Pleasant, MI, United States |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | I research, teach and write about religion. I am a Sufi Muslim living in an Interspiritual context. I seek, as Meher Baba advocated, to bring all religions "together like beads on a string." I aspire to the Chado (Way of Tea) values of Harmony (Wa), Respect (Kei), Purity (Sei), and Tranquility (Jaku) taught by Sen no Rikyu. I carry a "spiritual visa" to visit many communities of worship & celebration, and observe & participate in contemplations, & commemorations of the divine and sacred. My watchword and guiding compass that navigates this website are these words from my teacher Sherif Baba: "Whoever follows the human being finds the Beauty. Our purpose is human being, to live the depth of a human being." May we be like the crescent moon, renewing, rejeuvenating and resurrecting in regular rotation. Like the full moon, may our hearts expand with universal kindness. Like the stars may our thoughts shine from the mind of God. Like the earth, may our bodies turn in beauty and grace. Like Mary ('alayha as-salaam) may we pray with pure hearts and clear meditation. SubhanAllah, Al-Hamdu li-llah, Allahu Akbar. |
| Interests | Sufism, Meher Baba, Inter-spirituality, Buddha Dharma, Chado & Chanoyu, Hindu Dharma, Mazdayasna (Zoroastrianism), Hermetica, Ishraqiyya Music (Singer-Songwriter-Guitarist, & Baglama Saz) |
| Favorite Movies | Al-Ghazali: Alchemist of Happiness / Tolerance: Dedicated to Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi / Turning Ecstatic Rumi (Petrova) / Flight from Death: the Quest for Immortality / Puja (Smithsonion) / Mahabharata (Peter Brook, 1989, 318m) / Gandhi (Attenborouogh) / Gandhi, My Father (2007) / Kundun (Scorsese, 1998) / Little Buddha (Bertolucci, 1994) / Thich Naht Hanh: Peace is Every Step (on YouTube, 50m) / |
| Favorite Music | Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, Chris Freeman (www.clfmusic.com), Aradhana, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Asik Veysel, Mevlevi ney (reed-flute) |
| Favorite Books | Meher Baba, "God Speaks, " Meher Baba, "Discourses, " Qur'an al-Karim; Bhagavad Gita, esp translations by Graham Schweig (Harper) and Barbara Stoler Miller (Bantam); Muzzafer Ozak, Love is the Wine, Thomas Merton on Sufism (Fons Vitae), Michael Sells, Approaching the Qur'an. Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Deliverance from Error (his spiritual autobiography); Ernest Becker, Deial of Death; Ernest Becker, Birth and Death of meaning; Daniel Liechty, Transference and Transcendence |
How can we open our hearts?