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4.0�toiles sur 5 Jewels Of Spiritual Insight, Juil 29 2002

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Idries Shah presents a selection of stories from hundreds of years worth of Sufi literature and tradition. The stories are short, entertaining, and easily read, but also challenging since they are not so easily understood in many instances. Nevertheless, there are certainly jewels of spiritual insight to be gleaned from this book, regardless of any puzzlement one might experience in regard to its many obscurities. The patient reader will find that some stories which seem terribly obscure to begin with will, at some later reading, become perfectly obvious as to their relevance.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 Dare to question everything, Jui 11 2002

Par	Pablo R. Vitaver (Ft Lauderdale, FL USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

Stories that will shake your assumptions and strict belief in the established, conventional, trusted and safe relationship between cause and effect. These stories, if nothing else, open your mind to a different way of thinking. By doing that, it awakens parts of your brain that normally stay dormant. A fresh look at everyday occurrences, unquestioned practices and established thought-processes. It has an invigorating value. You don't have to 'believe' anything the author says: he is not selling anything, not even ideas. Just read and observe what happens to yourself, since these stories are about you.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 A Treasure Caravan of Humour and Wonder, Janv. 8 2002

Par	Caroline Harkins "charkins@golden.net" (Elora, Ontario Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires

I have just reread Idries Shah's Tales of the Dervishes. The 82 tales from Sufi teaching of the last thousand years include current material. Shah calls it "work material". These vivid and vital accounts are communications, really. They invite the reader to experience the challenge and mystery of Sufi lore and teaching. I was surprised to find that after ten years, I still remember nearly every tale: the feel of the words and drama as well as details of action. The characters, though often odd and unlikely also seem oddly familiar. Their escapades stimulate emotional as well as intellectual involvement. The outcomes seem at once impossible and inevitable. We are reading about ourselves here: the lucky time when we got it right and all the missed opportunities.
After each tale Shah gives historical notes and useful comments.
Excerpt.
STRIKE ON THIS SPOT
Dhun-Nun the Egyptian explained graphically in a parable how he extracted knowledge concealed in Pharaonic inscriptions.

There was a statue with pointing finger, upon which was inscribed: 'Strike on this spot for treasure.' Its origin was unknown, but generations of people had hammered the place marked by the sign. Because it was made of the hardest stone, little impression was made on it, and the meaning remained cryptic.
Dhun-Nun, wrapped in contemplation of the statue, one day exactly at midday observed that the shadow of the pointing finger, unnoticed for centuries, followed a line in the paving beneath the statue.
Marking the place he obtained the necessary instruments and prised up by chisel-blows the flagstone, which proved to be the trapdoor in the roof of a subterranean cave which contained strange articles of a workmanship which enabled him to deduce the science of their manufacture, long since lost and hence to acquire the treasures and those of a more formal kind which accompanied them.

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1.0�toiles sur 5 unbearable mumbo-jumbo
what's going on? what's the problem with people who consume such common sense useless material like this?

Publi� le Jui 6 2002

5.0�toiles sur 5 Stories as Tools
With each new projection of the Sufi impulse, the current exponent collects and organizes materials from the wealth accumulated during the over thousand years of works that are... Read more

Publi� le Juil 23 2001

5.0�toiles sur 5 Unalloyed wisdom
This book, like all of Shah's other books, is remarkable in its impact and subtlety. Each story is a blueprint of human thinking but the value of the book will be lost on those... Read more

Publi� le Janv. 12 2001 par Raheen Sacranie

5.0�toiles sur 5 A wonderful book
One of many wonderful books by this author. Takes the form of short stories from a third of a page to 4 pages. Read more

Publi� le Oct. 22 2000 par Alan Brown