About
Give me freedom to fly without a shadow,
Give me freedom to sing without an echo,
and to love without leaving traces.
The Golden Sufi Center is the vehicle for the work of the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Order of Sufism. The purpose of The Golden Sufi Center is to make the teachings of this lineage of Sufism available. People follow this path from around the world. Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee is the founder and sheikh of The Golden Sufi Center. His son, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, has been fully authorized as his successor and is also a sheikh in this lineage.
Naqshbandi Sufis (named after Baha’uddin Naqshband, d. 1389) are known as the “silent Sufis” because their practices are done in silence. They practice a silent dhikr and the silent meditation of the heart—God is the silent emptiness and is therefore most easily reached in silence. Through spiritual practice and following the principles of the path, the wayfarer is guided on the stages of the journey, back to the divine oneness that is experienced within the heart.
The Golden Sufi Center has numerous resources and teachings available and has published the following: Daughter of Fire by Irina Tweedie and twenty-eight books by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee including For Love of the Real: A Story of Life’s Mystical Secret, Fragments of a Love Story: Reflections on the Life of a Mystic, Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth and Working With Oneness. An extensive library of audio and video recordings of lectures and interviews with Irina Tweedie, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee are also available.