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Tradition and Spirituality

The Silence of the Body

24.90 EUR
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THE SILENCE OF THE BODY – Idris Lahore

Idris Lahore’s The Silence of the Body is written with such clarity that it reads like a series of Haiku poems, each of them awakening what is most profound in us. The Socratic dictum, “Know thyself, and you shall know the universe and the gods,” is the leitmotif that runs throughout the book.

“What we cannot discover in our body, we cannot discover in any other place in the world” – thus the book’s first line, and through a series of short texts, remarkable for their lucidity and concision, the author explains how we may gain access to this knowledge through our body, by allowing the forces of inner calm and attentive consciousness to come alive in us.

Idris Lahore also describes how we can rid ourselves of the conditioned thoughts and emotions that are not our own, liberating ourselves from them, and giving us in this way the keys that permit us to escape from the infamous “cave” described by Plato. To be the observer of our thoughts, emotions, and actions, without taking ourselves for them; as in meditation, to be attentive, while remaining innerly calm and present… Then we may experience inner silence, and an opening unto a reality of a more subtle nature becomes possible. A book to be discovered and meditated upon, inviting us above all to discover ourselves.

The photographs that accompany the text illustrate the art of bodily positions, gestures, and movements, which here has its source in the Sufi science of the movements of Samadeva. This art can also be found throughout the history of art, evoking in particular the work of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Rembrandt, Van Eyck, and Georges de la Tour, as well as Gothic sculpture and sacred statuary.

The author

Since his childhood, Idris Lahore has been immersed in both Eastern and Western traditions and cultures, and over the course of his extensive travels and studies throughout the world, he acquired a profound knowledge of these traditions as well as a subtle understanding of the human psyche. He is the author of numerous titles published in several languages.

Language : French

Complete English translation available for foreign rights

Format : 155 x 250 mm, 80 pages, 35 color illustrations, Consort Royal paper, ISBN 2-35195-003-8

ARANE Ô ARANE, The Song of Eternity

16.00 EUR
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ARANE, O ARANE, THE SUFI ETHICAL WAY - Idris Lahore

Arane o Arane is an ancient message of Sufi wisdom with its source in the very dawn of time, passed on over the ages from master to pupil through the spoken word and song.

Sufism is said to be the heart of all religions, the inner path of all wisdom traditions, and has given birth to such immortal poets as Rumi, Attar, Al Ghazali, Hafiz, and Ibn Arabi, each inspired with the fire of the Eternal. Perhaps less well-known is that the Sufi tradition also had a considerable influence upon many Christian mystics, among them St. Francis of Assisi.

Following his sojourn in the Dervish monasteries of Kafiristan, which have since disappeared due to political events in the region, Idris Lahore transcribed these ancient verses which poetically describe the Sufi ethical way.

These words of wisdom speak directly to the soul; while they can be understood literally, with repeated readings they gradually awaken what is great, beautiful, and true in each of us, revealing their deeper beauty and true meaning. As we read and reread this timeless message and our heart is opened more and more to its understanding, we rediscover the traces of a veritable path toward ourselves, other people, and the world.

Language : French

English translation available for foreign editions

Format : 110 x 170 mm, 176 pages, color illustrations,

ISBN 2-35195-011-9, Collection Tradition and Spirituality

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