Spiritual Letter 58 - Outline & Summary Version About Spiritual Letter 58 Title: "Discovering The Fault Within Our Faults" Date Written: July, 2004 Date Sent: Not yet sent Written by: Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) Written to: Muhammad Muhaiyaddeen, of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship Go To: Introduction - to Spiritual Letter 58 Go To: Outline of Spiritual Letter Go To: Text of Spiritual Letter Home Page - Spiritual Letters Spiritual Letter 59 Letter 58: Original Version Library Home Page Spiritual Letter 57 Letter 58: Related Material Go To Table of Contents - Spiritual Letter 58 Introduction - to Spiritual Letter 58 Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa barakatuhu kulluhu. Wa 'alaykum al-salam wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brothers and sisters - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). Here is a beautiful letter that is being written to our dear brother Muhammad Muhaiyaddeen. We have been chatting over the Internet since last January, almost daily, and the clarity that has come into the lives of both of us is truly amazing, verifying without the slightest doubt what Bawa has taught us about the true Shaikh-Disciple Relationship, that especially now applies when our Holiness in no longer physically in the world, which is the following: "If two of you come together in My Name, I will be there." In our last chat, which you can access by clicking on the following: Spiritual Chat 154, "If Two of You Come Together In My Name, I Will Be There", we came to a very important cross roads in our clarity, which this child started to describe to Muhammad Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) in this letter, with this child living at the feet of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us). Amen. While writing the letter the clarity that came into my heart is that we all need to hear the wonderful wisdom points exposed in this letter, so at the direction of Bawa within us, and of God within Him, we are sending it to everyone on our current Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship mailing list. After reading it, and if you think it is appropriate, please forward it to others at the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship who are not on our current list, and if you like please E-mail their current E-mail address to us, so we can add it to our mailing list. Thank you. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). Outline of Spiritual Letter: 1. We Are Full of Faults - but that is not the real enemy, the real enemy is what we have grown over our faults to hide them, to hide them from God within us, to hide them from our brothers and sisters outside of us, and to hide them from ourselves 2. Steps For Removing The Hidden Enemy of Our Soul - which in truth are the "veils of hypocrisy" within us, and the "schemes of the mind" within us, which currently define us on the "outside" of us, which in truth are but "us" living as "separate from" God, as "separate from" each other, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us, which in truth are but "us" living with our brothers and sisters, with our husbands and wives, with our children and our relatives, with our friends and co-workers, in the world that we see in our collective ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us Text of Spiritual Letter: 1. We Are Full of Faults - but that is not the real enemy, the real enemy is what we have grown over our faults to hide them, to hide them from God within us, to hide them from our brothers and sisters outside of us, and to hide them from ourselves Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa barakatuhu kulluhu. Wa 'alaykum al-salam wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brother Muhammad Muhaiyaddeen - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). What was the lesson of yesterday's experience, my dearest loving brother Muhammad Muhaiyaddeen? (Note: please click on the following: Spiritual Chat 154: "If Two of You Come Together In My Name, I Will Be There", to read the chat between Muhammad Muhaiyaddeen and Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler), on 7/29/04, about the experience that is referenced above) When we say the word Bawa, establishing the "Presence of God" within us, disappearing within Bawa within us, and within God within Him, before we "say or do" anything, the following clarity cames into the heart of this child about this experience: 1) We are full of faults, which in truth are the qualities of the Creation of God within us, which in truth is the incompleteness of the Creation of God within us, not "us" living on the "outside" of us, because in truth "we do not exit", we are but the dream that God is having, which God must awaken from, if He is to complete His intention within us, which is to reveal God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. Amen. 2) But the true enemy of our relationship with God within us, of our relationship with Bawa within us, and of God within Him, is not our faults, but is our hypocrisy, is the "veils of hypocrisy", and the "schemes of the mind", that are hiding our faults from God within us, from each other, and from ourselves, and which are the true enemies of our soul, the true enemies of our relationship with God within us, with Bawa within us, and with God within Him, which in truth is but our acting as if we do not have any faults In this way, we must understand these "faults within our faults" which are preventing God from correcting our faults, preventing God from bringing the Creation of God within us to completeness within us, of God corrrecting the faults within us which in truth are but the "incompleteness" of the Creation of God within us. And to do this we must first understand the steps that we must take, joined in partnership with God within us, to remove this hidden enemy of our soul within us, which are these "veils of hypocrisy", and these "schemes of the mind", which in truth are but "us" living as "separate from" God, as "separate from" each other, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us on the "outside" of us, living with our brothers and sisters, with our husbands and wives, with our children and relatives, and with our friends and co-workers, in the world that we see in our collective ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us. And we also must understand the vehicle that God has personally and ever so loving placed within us, given each of us even before we were born, ever before we came to this earth world, in order to implement these steps, these steps that will truly take us back to God within us, allowing us to again become "One with" God within us, but this time with an understanding of that "Oneness", which in truth is the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, so that "Oneness" will never leave us again, in the way it currently has left us, in this way, returning us to that "One" within us from whom we have all come, in order to "understand" who we "already are", and having correctly understood that, to return to God, and to share that understanding of the "One" with that "One" within us for eternity. And as a little help in this process, as a first pass at understanding these steps and this vehicle, this child, Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) is providing us with the rest of this letter, which comes to us, my deareat loving brother Muhammad Muhaiyaddeen, from the feet of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us). Amen. For as Bawa teaches us, when asked by one of the children, "What does wisdom say?" Bawa said, "Wisdom doesn't say anything, it lets God speak." Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). 2. Steps For Removing The Hidden Enemy of Our Soul - which in truth are the "veils of hypocrisy" within us, and the "schemes of the mind" within us, which currently define us on the "outside" of us 1) Accepting that we are full of faults, and that this is Ok, because that is our current state, the state which has grown with God's permission to prepare what He needs to complete His intention within us, which is to reveal God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, the state that has grown within us in our ignorance that can now be harvested by God within us, if we will only let Him, if we will only join in partnership with Him within us, so He can. 2) So God within us can complete His intention within us, the state that has naturally grown within us, as the state of the Creations of God within us, that we see in our ignorance as "outside" of us, that we see in our ignorance as "us" on the "outside" of us, that we see as our life of "separation and differences" with our brothers and sisters in the world that we see in our collective ignorance as existing "outside" of us, a state that is required for God to next move our life forward within us, if we will only give up our dream life "outside" us and join in partnership with God within us, so God within us, so Bawa within us, and God within Him, so the wisdom of truth of God within us, can close down the world of hell, of jinns, and of fairies within us, and re-open the world of souls within us, and then open the kingdom of God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, doing all of this within us, in accordance with what God is doing within us, not in accordance with what we think we are doing with our brothers and sisters on the "outside" of us. 3) So the question isn't do we have faults, because the answer is always yes, that is the natural state of us, of the Creation of God within us, until only God is there within us, the real question of our life is what are we doing with our faults, with the faults of the Creation of God within us, that we see in our ignorance as "our faults" on the "outside" of us, because in our ignorance we don't see the Creation of God within us. 4) In this way, gradually learning to accept the natural faults, the natural "state of incompleteness" of the Creation of God within us, which is the state God created them in, as "our faults" on the "outside" of us, and then gradually learning from our mother and father to hide them from others, and from God, with a "veil of hypocrisy". For as Bawa teaches us, "What destroys the child is the hypocrisy of the parents". 5) For as we grow from a child of 2, when we first enter the dream world "outside" of us, and begin to forget God within us, and the Creation of God within us, as well as all the angels, heavenly beings, and lights of God within us, and begin to only see the illusory "outside" of us, and are taught to see in this "outside" world through our mind and desire rather than through our wisdom, as we did in the womb and for the first 2 years. For example, we are quickly taught by those living in the "outside" world to see "our" mother and father and brothers and sisters as "separate from' other mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters. 6) In this way, we start to exhibit all of the faults of the Creation of God within us, which we can no longer within us, since we have lost our wisdom, that is, "We have forgotten God, fallen into many a trap, and we do not know to seek ourselves, although God exists within us", as Bawa teaches us in the first paragraph of the "Forward" of the beautiful book of wisdom, "The Pearl of Wisdom". 7) In this way, as we mature in our illusion, as we fall deeper and deeper into the dream of a life of "separation and differences" in the world, in the world that we see in our ignorance as only existing "outside" of us, as we come to puberty at the age of 12 and are swallowed by the black snake, and at the age of 24 marry the 4 destructive women, and at the age of 36 become the 4 false gurus, who actively hide the truth of God from the Children of God in the world, we learn to deny all of our faults, in our arrogance, karma, and illusion, in our desire for earth, women, and gold, we learn to deny "our faults", having lost our wisdom, and no longer realizing that we are but experiencing the faults of the Creation of God within us, who were created by God in the state of incompleteness so He could bring them to completion, when man turns back to God, when man rejects his life of "separation and differences on the "outside" of him, after hearing and seeing the life and teaching of God for His age, which for our age is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us). Amen. 8) So instead of seeing his faults as but the faults of the Creation of God within him, who were created by God in a state of incompleteness, so man could join with God within Him, with the wisdom and truth of God within Him, with Bawa within us, and God within Him, to close down the "outside" of him, so man could come to learn about what "separates" us from God, and having learned this lesson, build a palace for the soul within us, build a house of wisdom within us, the house of Qutb Muhaiyaddeen Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him) within us, man misses the point of his life, which is God within him, and True Man within God within Him. 9) So instead of doing this, of truly turning to God within us, of joining in partnership with God within us, with Bawa within us, and with God within Him, to complete God's intention within us, man continues to deny the faults that he experiences on the "outside" of him, gradually learning better and better ways to cover them, to hide them, from God, from his brothers and sisters, and from himself, turning these "veils of hypocrisy" into "schemes of the mind", as Bawa calls them, that turn his life into a "feast of the world", where everything that he see, says, does, or thinks is a sin, is an act of "separation and differences, which Bawa calls, "The evil actions of kalam (time) that lead us to kalan, to the Angel of Death (peace be upon Him), to the suffering of the grave, where we meet the 5 ruhanis or elemental spirits who have come to rule our lives within us, and then go to Qiyamah (the Standing Forth; the Day of Judgment), where we are judged by God in from of all of the Creation of God within us, with us silent and them testifying against us, telling God what we made them do, as our hands, our eyes, our nose, our feet, as every part of our life in the world, and finally to an eternal life of "separation from" God, going on the journey of 105 million rebirths, ending as a worm in hell with only one level of wisdom, with feeling. Such is our fate that leads us to the Angel of Death (peace be upon Him), unless as Bawa teaches us, "Our wisdom reasons over our fate." 10) In this way, with our life gradually becoming only a "veil of hypocrisy", a "veil of hypocrisy" that has grown to become our life, which has grown to become the "schemes of our mind" that show us our current life on the "outside" of us, that in truth show us the life of our family, of our friends, of our school, our church, our jobs, our town, our country, of our wife, and husband, and children, all on the "outside" of us. 11) This is what must end in our life, this "veil of hypocrisy" within us, these "schemes of our mind" within us, that have literally become our life on the "outside" of us, all the while "separating" God within us from the Creation of God within us, all the while standing between God and what God is doing within us, in this way, blocking God from completing His intention within us, which is to reveal God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, by first revealing True Man within the Creation of God within us, by first bringing the Creation of God within us to completion within us. 12) Which God will naturally do within us, when we turn back to God within us, when we remember God within us, by accepting and joining with the life and teaching of God for our age, awakening the wisdom surrounding our soul, so the wisdom surrounding our soul within us can do battle with the enemy of our soul within us, which is our life as the "veil of hypocrisy" within us, that in our ignorance we see as existing on the "outside" of us, which is our life as the "schemes of our mind" within us, that in our ignorance we see as existing on the "outside" of us. 13) In this way, destroying "us" on the "outside" of us, and revealing God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, with us becoming the witness, becoming the "On-thing" that travels back to the "On-thing", back to God, with the understanding of everything, and within that with the understanding of the "No-thing", and within that the "No-thing", in this way, spending eternity sharing all of this understanding with God within us, which is what Bawa teaches us is the true nature of us and God, which is the "No-thing", and the understanding of the "No-thing". Amen. 14) And in this way, completing God's intention within us, by us joining in partnership with God within us, and with what God is doing within us, joining in partnership with Bawa within us, and with God within Him, saying the word Bawa, establishing the "Presence of God" within us, before we "say or do" anything, disappearing within Bawa within us, and within God within Him, and in this way destroying the "outside" of us, the "veil of hypocrisy" within us, the "schemes of the mind" within us, making the Creation of God complete within us. 15) In this way, revealing the qualities of God within us, revealing the 99 wilayats or powers or attributes of God within the Creation of God within us, in this way removing all of their faults within us, and replacing them with the Qutb within us, with the house of the Qutb within us, the house with the 99 windows within us, becoming the heart of our wisdom, becoming the palace of our soul within us, allowing God within us to reveal True Man within the Creation of God within us, as the "Oneness of God and His Creation" within us. 16) But all of this is blocked or stopped within us, when we refuse to join with God within us, when we refuse to give up our soul to our Shaikh within us, to Bawa within us, and to God within Him, when we refuse to let our life "outside" of us, to let our "veils of hypocrisy" within us, to let our "schemes of our mind" within us, come to an end, both within us and "outside" of us, when we refuse to germinate, when we refuse to let the "tree of True Man" hidden within us grow within us, revealing the "fruit of God" hidden within the "tree of God" within us, when we refuse join with the "earth of God" which us, which is the "Heart of the Shaikh" within us, to destroy the "seed of True Man" buried within the heart of our Shaikh within us, and reveal True Man within the Creation of God within us, as the "Oneness of God and His Creation" within us, when we refuse to do this and continue to live a life of "selfishness" on the "outside" of us, when we continue to live and protect our life of "separation and differences", both within us and "outside" of us, when we continue to "work for wages to get into some illusory heaven" on the "outside" of us. 17) But if we do join with God within us, if we do turn back to God within us, if we do say the word Bawa, establishing the "Presence of God" within us, before we '"say or do" anything, and do this, that is say the word Bawa, having no "personal agenda", that is, if we don't try to use Bawa to get what we want, but rather join with Him within us, and with God within Him, surrendering our life and all responsibility to Them within us, and to what They are doing within us, as the "truth of us", and the completion of what They are doing within us, as the "truth of Them" within us, which then becomes the "Truth surrendering to the Truth" within us, then and only then, our life will become victorious, our wisdom will reason over our fate, the qualities of our inner selves will become victorious over the qualities of our outer selves, for the "truth of us" is "True Man happening" within us, and the "Truth of Them" within us, is "God happening" within Them, in this way, completing God's intention within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. 18) In this way, when we begin to allowing the Creation of God within us to come to completion within us, by saying the word Bawa, establishing the "Presence of God" within us, before we "say or do" anything", then through the 1000 generosities of God within us, which appear within us when we develop the Iman of the Kalimah within us, allowing us to follow the Causal Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) within us, each of the 4 religions within us, come to completion within us, establishing the24th and 25th letter within us, which is Iman and the Nur Muhammad within us, following by the 26th letter within us, which is the liberation of our soul from the cross of our elemental body, by wisdom within us, by pulling out the 5 nails of "desire to live here", revealing Jesus (peace be upon Him) within us, allowing Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) to go on Mi'raj, establishing the 27th letter within us, which is the Rahman of God within us, allowing True Man within us to reveal True Man within us, as the understanding of True Man within us, revealing the 28th letter within us which is Insan Muhammad, or Allah Muhammad, or the Rahim of God within us. 19) But none of this will happen within us, until we begin to accept all of our faults, and stop hiding behind our "veil of hypocrisy", and our "schemes of our mind", as a way to hide them from God, from our brothers and sisters, and from ourselves, and when we begin to accept all of our faults as not really our faults but as the current state of the Creation of God within us, and accepting them within us, not as something to get rid of, but rather as something to become clearer and clearer about, looking at them more and more through our wisdom and truth, through Bawa within us, and through God within Him. 20) And doing this by seeing them, as best we can, when they occur on the "outside" of us, as what we experience as our thoughts, words, actions, and qualities, as our life on the "outside" of us, but rather than letting them define us on the "outside" of us, stop this "deadly embrace" that we have on our "outside", and instead, immediately say the word Bawa, establishing the "Presence of God" within us, and handing them, and "be done with them", that is, when we experience them occurring within us, then say the word Bawa, and then immediately hand these thoughts, words, actions, and qualities, which is really the incompleteness of the Creation of God within us, to Bawa within us, and to God within Him, and "be done with them", having no personal agenda concerning them. 21) That is, not wanting anything concerning them, like wanting Bawa to "remove them", or wanting Bawa to "change them", because this is just desire, just another tick of the mind, to keep you off the point, the point that you life is about God, and what God is doing within you, it is not about you, as "separate from" God, or as "separate from" your brothers and sisters, or as "separate from" the Creation of God, living a life of arrogance, karma, and illusion with your brother and sisters in the world that you only see in your ignorance as existing "outside" of us. That is the dream that must end, if the reality of God is to begin within us. 22) So this is where we must "Shift Gears", going from our "outside" to our inside, and we can only do this using our wisdom, we can only go to our inside through our wisdom and our truth, through Bawa within us, and through God within Him, by invoking the "Presence of God" within us, by calling on our wisdom and truth to come out of their place within us, which is a place of purity within us, which is where They live within us, in a place no bigger than an atom, and into our place of impurity within us, which is where we currently live within us, which our mind and desire, and make our mind and desire sit down, and our wisdom stand up. Because this is the way it works, for Bawa teaches us, "The mind will only sit down when wisdom stands up." 23) Therefore, we must stop placing our faith and trust in "us", and in our brothers and sisters, our friends and family, our religious leaders, our family, our wife, our husband, our children, our relations, our race, our religion, our learning, our titles, our property, our wealth, our words, our body, and instead place our faith and trust only in God within us, in Bawa within us, and in God within Him, to use Them, and only Them, to forward our life within us, to use them to complete God's intention within us, and to immediately stop thinking about these other things, these "outside" things, which in truth are only our "veils of hypocrisy", and the "schemes of our mind", which will only lead us to hell. 24) And the most important question of our life is how do we see our faults, and having seen them, how do we begin to see them clearer and clearer, and how do we continue that process until "Only God is there", because the only true fault, the only true sin of our life, is our "broken" direct connection to God, which happened around the age of 3 for all of us, because we did not understand our direct connection to God. 25) We do not understand the truth of us, which is "True Man happening", and we don't understand the truth of God, which is "God happening", and in this way, we don't understand anything about the truth of us and God. For example, Bawa teaches us that the truth of us and of God is "Oneness", that in truth God and True Man are the "Oneness of God and True Man", that in truth "only God Exists", and in truth "God is One", and in truth "There is nothing other than God". So who are we on the "outside" of us, as "separate from" God, as "separate from" each other, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us. 26) Bawa teaches us that "we" in this state of "separation and differences" on the "outside" of us are in truth the "opposite of the truth", we are the "contrast to the truth", we are as Bawa teaches us, what we have become, with God's permission, and in our ignorance, what we see, hear, say, do, thing, intend, on the "outside" of us, and in this way, everything in our life is perfect, if we will now just turn back to God within us, and place our faith and trust in God within us, and turn away from the "outside" of us, as defining "who we are", and where we are", and as "what is happening" in our life. And if we do, then God will remove the falsehood cover the truth, He will remove the "outside" covering our true "inside", which is the "House of Light", the palace of the soul, the house of wisdom, within us, the house of Qutb Muhaiyaddeen Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him). 27) And in this way, who we now are, as the falsehood covering the truth, is as the "outside" covering our true "inside", is exactly what is now needed by God within us, by our wisdom and truth, by Bawa within us, and for God within Him, to completed what God has started within us, which is to reveal God to God for the benefit of all of the Creation of God, by first revealing True Man to True Man, to reveal True Man as the "Oneness of God and His Creation", which is naturally revealed within us when God brings His Creation within us to Completeness within us. Amen. 28) In this way, currently are the falsehood of us that has covered the truth of us, so the truth of us can be understood by the wisdom of us, revealing the truth of us, because as Bawa teaches us, "Understanding only occurs through contrast". 29) This is where our faith and trust in God comes in, this is where Bawa within us, and God within Him, comes into play within our lives, as the true vehicle of God to take us back to God within us, when we join with Them within us, and it all starts when we use Them within us, not to remove our faults from "us" on the "outside" of us, which is like trying to pull yourself up by your boot straps, when you are in your boots, but rather to use Them within us, to gradually see our faults, which are really the incompleteness of the Creation of God within us, to see them clearer and clearer, by handing what we see of our faults so far, to Them within us, so they in turn can make us clearer and clearer about these faults, which is what in truth comes back from our handing our faults to them, that is greater clarity about these faults, in this way, gradually removing them by us becoming clearer and clearer about them, allowing us to hand to them clearer and clearer faults, until the clarity has completely removed the fault, and "we" as "separate from" God no longer exist on the "outside" of us, and "only God exists within us". 30) Then the fault is gone, and so are we, for we have disappeared within God, as the witness, as the "No-thing", as the "understanding of everything", and within that, the "understanding of the No-thing", and within that the "No-thing", that goes back to the No-thing, to share all of this understanding with it for eternity. Amen. 31) In this way, once we begin to see our inside through our wisdom and truth, then our outside begins to vanish, once we begin to see the "veil of hypocrisy" within us through the life and teaching of the Shaikh of God for our age on the "outside" of us, which for our age is our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us), once we begin to see this "veil of hypocrisy", and these "schemes of the mind", rather than be them. 32) Rather than be defined by them, by this "veil of hypocrisy", and these "schemes of the mind within us, for then our life of "separation and differences" that we live with our brothers and sisters in the world that we see in our collective ignorance as existing "outside" of us, will disappear and we will begin to live a life of "Oneness" within us, of "Oneness" with God within us, and with all of the "Stuff of God" within us, which includes the wisdom and truth of God within us, as well as the 124,000 Prophets of God, heavenly beings, and lights of God within us, and in truth we will all be One, and there will be no time, because such is the true nature of our inside. 33) Of an inside which we have already experience before in the world of souls, in the womb, and for the first 3 years of our life, but without an understanding of it, which is why we came to this earth world, to understand who we "already are", and having understood, return to God for eternity, sharing our understanding with Him. Amen. 34) But none of this can occur within us, unless we begin the process of walking back into the "Oneness" that is God within us, and at the same time walking out of the "separation and differences" that is currently "us" living with our brothers and sisters in the world that we see in our collective ignorance as existing "outside" of us. And the first step is realizing, understanding, accepting, and joining with the life and teaching of God for our age, which is the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us), allowing us to begin to give up our attachment to our "outside", to our life of "separation and differences", to our "veil of hypocrisy", to our "schemes of our mind", allowing us to begin to see the faults that we are currently experiencing as really the incompleteness of the Creation of God within us, allowing us to look at these faults, rather than try to deny them, or hide from them, allowing us to gradually truly see and recognizing a fault within ourselves, saying to God, as Bawa teaches us to say, "O God, I am full of faults" And then, gradually, patiently, peacefully, handing them to God within us, handing them to Bawa within us, and to God within Him, and in this way, becoming clearer and cleared about each of these faults, each of these incompleteness' of the Creation of God within us, ever so gradually beginning to see, through the contrast of the darkness and the light within us, through the contrast of our "outside" and the Creations of God within us, and our true "inside" and the "Stuff of God" within us, begin to see through this contrast, the 99, the wilayats or power or attributes of God hidden within everything, as well as the qualities, and actions, and duty of God. Amen. 35) Understanding that what comes back from Them within us, after we hand than our faults, is not a solution to our fault, which we in our ignorance, in our hypocrisy, visualize as being "us" having gotten better, as being "us" having gotten rid of our faults, while in truth we are literally defined on the "outside" of us by the "veils of hypocrisy" and the "schemes of our mind" that try to hid our faults, from God, from each other, and from ourselves, but rather what actually comes back from Them within us, when we correctly hand our faults to Them within us, with "no agenda", is greater clarity about our faults. 36) What comes back to us from Them, is not what we think of as a solution, but what in truth is God's solution, to what is blocking what He is doing within us, which is greater and greater clarity of the problem, because what we hand to God within us is not really the problem, but rather is just the beginning of the process of defining the problem, because the problem is everything that has happened to us from the time God created us as His soul, is everything that we experienced in the world of souls, in the womb, for the first 3 years, when we started to forget about God, and forgot our "oneness" with all of the "Stuff of God", and with all of the Creation of God, which God patiently and ever so lovingly placed within each of us, even before we were born into this earth world. 37) So what comes back is not a solution but rather a clearer and cleared understanding of the problem. For example, with the problem starting out as "our impatience" or "our intolerance" or our desire, and with the problem ending up being "what is separating God from God", and "what is preventing God from completing what He has started within us. 38) In this way, what we begin to see as the problem, once we can begin to "separate" ourselves from the problem, once we can begin to let God within us, and what God is doing within us define us, and stop letting the "veils of hypocrisy" within us define us, and the "schemes of the mind" within us define us, which are the very thing within us that only serve to hide the problem within us, once we have begun to made this shift, from "our outside" and the "stuff of our outside" defining us, and the "stuff of our false inside", which are our "veils of hypocrisy" and the "schemes of our mind", defining us, and shift to God within us, and the "Stuff of God" within us, as defining, then we can begin to look at and hand to God within us, all of the really gross things within us, which are really underlying our life of "separation and differences" on the "outside" of us, which are all of our life of darkness and evil that have grown within us, as beautifully described by Bawa in the wonder book of wisdom, "A Mystical Journey". 39) In this way, as we progress on this path of God, we will begin to see and hand to Them within us, what is really separating "us" from Them, what is really keeping us as "separate from" Them within us, and in this way, what we see will be gradually seen as, "us" having gotten worse, not better, but we must be patient with God at this point, because what we are beginning to see and hand to Them within us, is the real work, is really the incompleteness of the Creation of God within us, and the lives of darkness and evil that have grown within us due to our ignorance, all of which must be brought to justice by God within us, which is really the purpose of this whole exercise within us, bring the lives of Creation and the lives of darkness and evil within us to justice within us. 40) So, as we go forward we have to rely more and more on God within us, on the grace, the wisdom, and the help of "God within us, which is the 'ilm or divine knowledge of God, in order to "separate from" us what is "separating us" from God. 41) In this way, as we get from" Them within us, the ability to see more and more clearly our "separation from" Them within us, seeing more clearly what we have done to the gift of God for our life since we were born into this earth world, like being swallowed by the black snake at the age of 12, like marrying the four destructive women at the age of 24, and then becoming the four false gurus that hide the truth of God form the Children of God at the age of 36, we can successfully complete out shift from our false "outside" and inside" to our true "inside". Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. 42) Because we now see more clearly the faults that we have within us, we see more clearly our "separation from" God" within us, because we see clearer and clearer as we repeatedly go through this cycle, of seeing our faults more and more clearly, and then handing them to God within us, to Bawa within us and to God within Him, realizing that the real fault is "the presence" within us of lives that are "separate from" God within us, not something about us, because we have died to our "personal life", our "private life" both within and "outside" of us, and through God's grace, wisdom, and 'ilm, we have become a slave of God within us, and our life has become eternal. 43) In this way, the really enemy is our "hypocrisy about our faults", and the resulting "lack of God's presence", the real enemy are the "schemes of the mind" that allow the lives of darkness and evil within us to use our life "outside" of us as a "feast of the world". 44) And that the only real cure to all of our faults within us, which in truth are really our "layers of hypocrisy about our faults", not our actual faults, the only real cure for all of this within us is God, is the "Presence of God" within us, is Bawa within us, and God within Him, is Them within us. 45) Because only God within us, only our wisdom and the truth within us, which are the "Stuff of God" within us, that live with God in the place of purity within us, only Bawa within us and God within Him, who can come out of that place of purity within us, which is where They life within us, only They can gradually cure "us" of "us", Only Them within us, as Bawa teaches us, can gradually "cure Themselves of us", revealing God to God within us, by first revealing True Man within the Creation of God within us. 46) But They can only do this divine work within us, this "Curing Themselves of us" within us, if and each time we call Them to do this work within us, if and each time we call Them to come out of Their place of purity within us, which is where They live within us, and come into our place of impurity within us, which is our mind and desire within us, which is where we currently live within us, which is the place within us that includes all the 400 trillion, 10 thousand spiritual energies or thoughts of "separation and differences" within us, 47) But They can only do this divine work within us, if and each time we call out their Name, which for our age is "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him), calling out Their Name without any personal agenda of our own, just placing our faith and trust in God within us, that "God alone is complete" within us Amen. 48) Because only They can remove from us, more and more, these "veils of hypocrisy" within us, these "schemes of the mind" within us, that have gradually grown between the Creation of God within us and God within us, creating "us" as "separate from" God living with our brothers and sisters in the world that we see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside' of us. 49) Because only They can do this heavenly work within us, when we join in partnership with Them to do this heavenly work within us, of revealing God to God within us, by first removing what is "separating' the Creation of God within us from God within us, when we repeated ask Them to do this heavenly work within us. 50) Because only They can remove from within us what is preventing God from bring the Creation of God within us to Completion within us, which are the 99 wilayats or attributes of God within us, in this way, closing down the world of hell, jinns, and fairies within us and opening the kingdom of God within us, in this way, opening up the world of souls within us, which becomes the palace of the soul within us, and in maturity becomes firdaus, the 8th heaven of Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him), allowing Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) to go on Mi'raj within us, opening the "Secret World of Allah's Essence" within us, His dhat. 51) In this way, revealing True Man from the Creation of God within us, rather than the "presence of us" on the "outside" of us, which is what this veil of hypocrisy within us is allowing to hid from God within us, until we awaken to the words of God both within us and "outside" of us, and begin to reveal this veil of hypocrisy to God within us, begin to reveal this life of us as "separate from" God, as "separate from" each other, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us, to God within us. 52) In this way, gradually seeing through God's intervention in our life, through God's intervention in our life "outside" of us, by our joining in partnership with God within us, against these veils of hypocrisy within us, against our life "outside" of us, by us handing these hypocrisies within us to God within us, gradually seeing with greater and great clarity the differing layers of hypocrisy within us, that are standing first between God and the Creations of God within us, and then between God and Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him), and then between God and True Man within us, and finally between God and God within us. 53) In this way, gradually removing "who we are" on the "outside" of us, which is the "veil of hypocrisy" that is hiding our faults from God, then gradually removing the "Shadow of the Shaikh", from the Shaikh (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and the "Shadow of Muhammad", from Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) within us, and finally the "Shadow of God" from God within us, until "only God is there", only God worshipping God is there, which is true prayer within us, and in this way, revealing the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. Amen. My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) End of Spiritual Letter 58 - outline & summary version - ...................................... or Go To Spiritual Letter 58: Table of Contents Original Version Related Material or ( a top-down version of the Library Home Page) (a bottom-up version of the Library Home Page) |
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