Khidr's Day, 2025
Monday, 5th May, 2025
12:30
Tuesday, 6th May, 2025
22:00
Return
‘… at the joining of the Two Seas’
This year, as in 2024, you are invited to Chisholme for a two-day celebration of greening on May 5th and 6th.
MONDAY 5 MAY
Arrive in time for lunch at 1pm, or earlier as you wish.
A woodland walk is proposed, between 2.15 - 4.00pm, an opportunity to see how the recently planted woodland areas are progressing just as they are bursting into leaf. And also to see the garden and tunnels, newly planted by a team of volunteers in April.
After tea at 4.30 there will be a presentation of Chisholme's summer programme of courses and events, including a report on the recently completed Six Month Course. New to the course was its particular focus on the interdependence of all life, as seen in the four spheres of ecology, economy, culture and spirituality. The summer programme will include provision for the continuation of this very fruitful enquiry.
Weather permitting there will be an evening barbecue.
TUESDAY 6 MAY is Khidr’s Day.
Khidr, ‘the Green’, possesses the knowledge that is ‘close to God’, that is, the inner knowledge of what things truly are and why they happen as they do.
Ibn Arabi says: ‘Everything has an external and an internal aspect. In its internal aspect lies the purpose of the Creator’.
At a time of global upheaval and change perhaps this is an opportunity to reflect on the rejuvenating gift of esoteric knowledge… There will be a meeting for conversation in the Mead Hall between 9.00 and 12.00.
And, you are warmly invited to Khidr’s Day zikr at 9.00 pm.
RSVP to secretary@chisholme.org so we have an idea of numbers.
Please also let us know which days you will be coming, if you will be here for lunch and/or supper either day, and if you need accommodation.
SUGGESTED DONATION
£25 per day non-residential with all meals
£45 per day residential including meals
We look forward to welcoming you.
RESIDENTIAL COURSES of various lengths are held at Chisholme – from an introductory weekend to a full six-month retreat course.
All courses at Chisholme, however much their formats differ, begin with the principle of the absolute unity of existence, in view of which unity all life, in whatever sphere, is interconnected and interdependent.
If this is so, then who and what am I? Is it possible for me to come to know my reality and place within the one absolute existence? And what is the way forward, to know myself within the context of unity? That such knowledge is possible, and that there is indeed a way towards it is the reason for all courses that Chisholme offers.
There are different lengths of courses at Chisholme. From a weekend to six months, the course comprises a beginning, a middle and an end and has a continuity of participants throughout. Each participant begins at the same starting point as every other, and all complete the course together. To begin at the beginning, it is important that each participant, whatever their prior learning and experience, enters upon the course with ‘beginner’s mind’, as far as possible putting aside all previous understandings, with a freshness of intent and enquiry.
This kind of knowledge cannot be taught as such, and for this reason Chisholme has no teachers. Rather, this knowledge is within each of us already and reveals itself as and when we are ready, when the time is right. Chisholme’s courses aim to provide the best circumstances for each participant to approach this transformational moment, whether during the course or in the future.
Each person’s journey to self-knowledge will be different.
Email secretary@chisholme.org
to register your interest.
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