AMERICAN ENGLISH EDITION. Thinkers of the East is a collection of anecdotes and ‘parables in action’ illustrating the eminently practical and lucid approach of Eastern Dervish teachers.
Distilled from the teachings of more than one hundred sages in three continents, this material stresses the experimental rather than the theoretical – and it is that characteristic of Sufi study which provides its impact and vitality.
The emphasis of Thinkers of the East contrasts sharply with the Western concept of the East as a place of theory without practice, or thought without action. The book’s author, Idries Shah, says ‘Without direct experience of such teaching, or at least a direct recording of it, I cannot see how Eastern thought can ever be understood’.
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New York Times The instrumental function of Shah's work is now well established among people from all walks of life. Stockbrokers, scientists, lawyers, managers, writers, physicians, and diplomats have found Shah's literature for human development "extraordinary." "It presents a blueprint of the human mental structure."
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The woman, as a wayfarer points out, unlike a thousand other people around, at least knew the cause of her grief and the object from which she had been separated.
Man is in a similar condition of estrangement - as it were from his family - but does not know it. All he knows is that he is unhappy, and he has to invent reasons to which he then attributes his misery.
Excerpted from Thinkers of the East : Studies in Experientialism by Idries Shah, Shah Idries. Copyright © 1971. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
MYSTERY
Talib said:
'People who know nothing, or know very little and should be studying instead of teaching, are fond of creating an air of mystery. They may foster rumours about themselves and pretend that they do things for some secret reason. They always strive to increase the sense of mystery.
'But this is mystery for itself, not as the outer manifestation of inner knowledge.
'The people who really know the inner secrets generally look and behave like ordinary people.
'So the ones who increase the air of mystery may be like the spider's web, they only catch flies. Are you, like the fly, a spider's dinner?'
Excerpted from Thinkers of the East by Idries Shah: Octagon Press, London, p. 98. Copyright © 1971, 1977, 1982 by The Estate of Idries Shah. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
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