River of Guidance Library
Meditation: Opening to Life
with Murshid Rahmat Moore
In this three-part series, we will explore basic sitting practice as a means for awakening to Life. The transformative power of meditation cannot be underestimated. Hazrat Inayat Khan says we are the cover over that which we seek. Meditation is a way to see through these veils. We all have basic goodness and true nature as our very being, and yet we do not remember this. This practice can help us open to this reality, so we can be intimate with all of life and love and be beneficent in the world.
Beneficence is a natural outcome of experiencing our nature. Thus, as we practice, our self-acceptance, compassion for the human condition, and our desire to be a compassionate force in this world also awaken naturally.
About Rahmat:
Murshid Rahmat grew up in the Rosicrucian tradition and started formal meditation practice at 14. At age 20, he found Universal Sufism and Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan. For the past 26 years, he has been a mureed of Pir Shabda and also a student of Indian classical vocal music with him. Rahmat has taught at the January Sufi Sesshin since its inception in 2002.
Rahmat practices awareness meditation daily and has studied meditation with a number of 'Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction'’ Vipassana and Tibetan teachers. He is trained as a physician and psychiatrist and integrates mindfulness and awareness into his work. He continues to work to deeply integrate Buddhist and Sufi teachings (which are genuinely simply different faces of the same Dharma) into all aspects of his life. He is passionate about the Path of Love and Presence wherever it is found and how it is practiced in its many forms.