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"The spiders in the corners of the carriage do not know where the train is going."
Because the average person thinks in patterns and cannot accommodate himself to a really different point of view, he loses a great deal of the meaning of life. He may live, even progress, but he cannot understand all that is going on. The story of the smuggler makes this very clear:
Nasrudin used to take his donkey across a frontier every day, with the panniers loaded with straw. Since he admitted to being a smuggler when he trudged home every night, the frontier guards searched him again and again. They searched his person, sifted the straw, steeped it in water, even burned it from time to time. Meanwhile he was becoming visibly more and more prosperous.
Then he retired and went to live in another country. Here one of the customs officers met him, years later.
"You can tell me now, Nasrudin," he said. "Whatever was it that you were smuggling, when we could never catch you out?"
"Donkeys," said Nasrudin.
This story also emphasizes one of the major contentions of Sufism — that preternatural experience and the mystical goal is something nearer to mankind than is realized. The assumption that something esoteric or transcendental must be far off or complicated has been assumed by the ignorance of individuals. And that kind of individual is the least qualified to judge the matter. It is "far off" only in a direction which he does not realize.
The Sufis
Paperback, eBook, audiobook, and Free online book, here:
idriesshahfoundation.org/books/the-sufis/
With the support of local tribal leaders, Matiullah Wesa and Attaullah Wesa of #penpath helped open a school in Arghastan District of #Kandahar In an area where there is little literacy, boys and girls will now have the opportunity to attend school.
Each week we use our #BookoftheWeek to dive deep into our personal library and provide a peek into the books we are sharing with our learners.
This week's Book of the Week is "The Farmer's Wife" by Idries Shah with Illustrations by Rose Mary Santiago.
"For more than 30 years Idries Shah's collections of teaching stories and narratives have captivated the hearts and minds of people from all walks of life. The Farmer's Wife and how she retrieves an apple from a hole in the ground is one of the many stories for children. For over a thousand years it has entertained young people who join in the chant of this cumulative tale and, at the same time, learn its valuable lessons about the nature of problem-solving and discovering."
"The Famer's Wife" will engage the reader with bright, distinct style while they get caught in the rhythm. Go on, give it a try!
#children #books #reading #learning Idries Shah #RoseMarySantiago
A research team at MIT analyzed 126,000 true & false stories tweeted by 3 million people over 4.5 million times btw 2006–2017 & found false news is 70% more likely to be retweeted. The study also found that human behavior contributes more than bots to the differential spread of falsity & truth on Twitter. www.humanjourney.us/great-attention-heist/#fakeNews