Multifaith Days
During a time of enormous suffering, strife, and religiously-based conflict we offer a meeting place of prayer and shared learning through five silent days. They will be led by meditation teachers of different faiths offering a time of solitude and prayer for all who seek God. A simple vegetarian meal will be provided. No reservations, no charge. Donations welcome.
Native American Multifaith Day
Theme: "Plants were here way before the five-finger people. They know you, have a relationship with you. It's a sense of recognizing the plants, the animals, the insects, as beings." We will spend the day together, on the land, by the ponds, the creek, sitting by the fire and around the dinner table. And we shall listen to the land and the creatures.
Leader: Donna House, an ethno botanist, grew up on a Navajo reservation in Arizona. She served as landscape architect for the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. She bridges the gap between the native world view-in which human beings and nature are interrelated, and all plants, animals and mountains are sacred-and the scientific perspective of her training as an environmental scientist.
Islam Multifaith Day
Theme: "I am a hidden treasure, wishing to be known." This day we will attend to the above theme with tajali, inquiry. Practicing healing attention, we bring love, compassion, allowing, and innocence to the present moment. Thus we will notice changes in any of the five domains: the physical, mental, emotional, moral, and spiritual.
Leader: Ramana Smallen is a senior teacher in the Sufi Order International, and the Sufi Healing Order. He is co-leader in the Ishk Center in Silver Spring, a center for the study of the inner life as explored with Sufi teachings.