Walking in Beauty - Navajo Way Blessing Ceremony - Closing Prayer

In beauty I walk
 Hózhóogo naasháa doo

With beauty before me I walk
 Shitsijí’ hózhóogo naasháa doo
With beauty behind me I walk
 Shikéédéé hózhóogo naasháa doo
With beauty above me I walk
 Shideigi hózhóogo naasháa doo
With beauty around me I walk
 T’áá altso shinaagóó hózhóogo naasháa
doo
It has become beauty again
 Hózhó náhásdlíí’
 Hózhó náhásdlíí’

It has become beauty again
 Hózhó náhásdlíí’
 Hózhó náhásdlíí’


Today I will walk out, With beauty before me may I walk.


today everything negative With beauty behind me may I walk.

will leave me.

With beauty below me may I walk.

I will be as I was before,
With beauty above me may I walk.

I will have a cool breeze
over my body.
 With beauty all around me
may I walk.

I will have a light body,
I will be happy forever,
nothing will hinder me.
 In old age wandering
on a trail of beauty,
I walk with beauty before me. lively, may I walk.

I walk with beauty behind me.
 In old age wandering
I walk with beauty below me. on a trail of beauty,
living again, may I walk.

I walk with beauty above me.

I walk with beauty around me.
My words will be beautiful.
 My words will be beautiful…

In beauty all day long may I walk.
 Linguistic Note:

The word “Hozho” in Dine’ (roughly translated)
Through the returning seasons, Concept of Balance and Beauty. Consideration of the
nature of the universe, the world, and man, and the
may I walk.

nature of time and space, creation, growth, motion,
On the trail marked with pollen order, control, and the life cycle includes all these
other Navajo concepts expressed in terms quite
may I walk.
 impossible to translate into English.
With dew about my feet, may I Some Navajos might prefer the term: “Nizhoni”
meaning ‘just beauty.”

walk.
 Written by Robert S. Drake, for Tom Holm,
PhD, University of Arizona American Indian Graduate
Studies Program, Native American Religions and
Spirituality.
http://talking-feather.com/home/walk-in-
beauty-prayer-from-navajo-blessing/

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1st Prayer of the Mevlevi Wird

In the name of God, There is no god but God,

Most Merciful, To whom belongs all dominion and
Most Compassionate. praise,
Ever-living, never dying.
God, The Source of Life, and Bringer of
You are Peace. Death,
From You comes Peace Who holds every goodness,
The return to You is Peace. And has power over all.

Sustainer There is no god but God,

You gave us life in Peace. Everything pleasing and favorable is for
So, Bring us into your House You
The Abode of Peace. The most beautiful praise is to You

Sustainer There is no god but God,

Bless us with Peace.
- Eternal, without beginning, without end.
Source of Majesty and Bounty
All exaltations and praise are yours,
Glory is Yours.
We don't worship You
As You ought to be worshiped,
O Worshipped One.
Glory is Yours.
We don't known You
As You deserve to be known,
O Known One.
Praise God
For guiding me to a life of balance
and right actions
I continually ask your forgiveness
for my shortcomings
- In whose name
I bear witness,
There is no god but God,
Only The Divine Essence,
Who has no associates.
The Possessor of Oneness,
There is no god but God,
We worship none else,
We are sincere in our faith,
Despite the judgments of deniers.
-
God,
What You give cannot be prevented.
What You prevent cannot be given.
Those You guide cannot be misled.
Those You lead astray cannot be
guided.
What You decree cannot be blocked
What You command cannot be
thwarted.
Those with apparent advantages
Have no benefit without You.
-
In the Name of God,
We ask for protection from harm
On earth and above.
God is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.

I bear witness,
Muhammad is God’s servant and
messenger

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In the Name of God,
For myself and my faith.
In the Name of God,
For my family and possessions.
In the Name of God,
For whatever my Sustainer provides.
God is my Sustainer,
I associate no other with You.
God, Most Dear, Most Glorious
I need not fear,
Your protection is supreme,
Your praise is glorious,
Your Names are holy.
There is no god besides You.
- Listening to one
God,
With You I take refuge
From my own evils;
From the evil in others;
From the evil of self-willed oppressors;
And from the evil
of every disruptive whisperer.
Truly God is my protector,
Who bestowed the Book,
And watches over the righteous.
If others turn away from me
I must say: "God is all I need.”
There is no god but God,
The only one I need rely on.
The Sustainer,
Presiding from the summit of awe and
might.
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There is no god but God,
The Most Forbearing,
the Most Generous.
Glory to God,
At the summit of awe and might.
Praise God, Sustainer of the worlds.
There is no god but God,
Only the Devine Essence,
without associates.
-
God is One, Unique, Alone, Eternal,
Single;
The Sustainer,
Without companion or successor.
You, Who is never so occupied
As to not hear another.
You, Who is never confused
By anyone’s language.
Enable us to taste
The coolness of Your effacement,
And the sweetness of Your forgiveness.
Amen.
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Work with negative attitudes

Every time
I observe in myself
Negativity – in:
thoughts,
manifestations (behavior, deeds),
attitudes,
postures, or
feelings,

I will strive to replace it

with a feeling of confidence and love…

…toward the new world

which is being born,

…toward the still unborn child

that is the future mankind.

I will arouse in myself constantly

this love of the future humanity.

Adapted from
Reversing Negative Attitudes
JGB Nov. 1972
Audio: 14:40 - 17:36

Preparing for a moment of work.

In working on a task, When saying "am",

half of your time should go to the
task, and half for its preparation.
Prepare when you are not in the
situation.
Prepare by consciously increasing your
wish for contact with that person
[doing the task].
You can increase wish
by breathing consciously
and saying to yourself: “I am”.
When saying "I",
breathe the air in consciously
with all its active elements.
accumulate some of the energy
in your battery.
Think of using this energy
for your task.
Bring to mind
the person you are working with
[situation].
Imagine that when you see the person
you will be more concentrated,
you will have more contact with him.

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The way we extract this food for the 2nd body is by conscious reception of the air and
by blending it with the higher energies already existing in us.
We do this with the help of the chakras which are both energy accumulators and
points of contact between our physical body and our second being body. These
chakras or energy accumulators are for energies we use during our daily life.

The endocrine glands,

thyroid and - fear, stage fright
adrenal glands
supply force and sensitivity to our emotional centre.
sex centre can connect us to the Great Accumulator.
spinal marrow connect to moving centre,
back of the head ct instinctive centre. - give up smoking or similar habits
centre of the head ct intellectual centre. - For channelling sex-energy

Understanding of these chakras is a science which can be used to help us

make use of undesired energies and
to work on changing our habitual patterns.

(For channelling sex-energy - use the centre of the head chakra.

For fear, stage fright, etc. - use throat chakra.
For helping to give up smoking or similar habits - use back of the head chakra.

For more deep seated patterns, e.g. drug addiction, all can be utilised in co-operation
with a mantra.)

From: Gurdjieff - Meetings 1941 – 1944

Thursday, September 16, 1943

Ja: [In the course of the day] One doesn't [necessarily] see the person whom one has
chosen for one's task and afterward one sees that the day has been empty. How can
one keep, in the absence of that person, the fire necessary for one's task? How can one
put something in its place?

G: It is impossible to work all the time, on an object; you haven't enough energy. For
this reason, one half of your time should go to your task and half for the preparation of
the task. It's a very good combination. You must use the time when you are not seeing
the person to prepare yourself. How to prepare? You can only do one thing - you can
consciously increase your wish for contact with that person. You can increase it by
saying to yourself: "I am". You breathe consciously. You say, "I am". When you say "I",
you breathe in the air consciously with all the active elements of the air. When you say
"am", you accumulate some energy in your battery and you think of using this energy.
You represent to yourself the person with whom you are working and you think when
you see that person you will be more concentrated, you will have more contact with
him. So that what you would have done in seven times, you will do in one.

The source of this text is Jean Toomer Papers, Georges Gurdjieff,

Coll. No. JWJ.MSS.1, Series No. III, Box No 68, Folder No. 1541,
YALE UNIVERSITY, BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY