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SEEKER AFTER TRUTH Материал, защищенный авторским правом Books by Idries Shah Knowing how to Know Learning how to Learn The Commanding Self The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin Tales of the Dervishes Caravan of Dreams The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin Reflections The Dermis Probe Thinkers of the East A Perfumed Scorpion The Sufis The Hundred Tales of Wisdom Klara Kush Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study Special Illumination: The Sufi Use of Humour A Veiled Gazelle: Seeing how to See The Elephant in the Dark Wisdom of the Idiots The Magic Monastery The Book of the Book The Way of the Sufi The Subtleties of the Inimitable Mulla Nasrudin World Tales Darkest England The Natives are Restless Oriental Magic Материал, защищенный авторским правом SEEKER AFTER TRUTH A Handbook by IDRIES SHAH From Tales, Discussions and Teachings, Letters and Lectures THE OCTAGON PRESS LONDON Copyright© 1982, 1992 by Idries Shah The right of Idries Shah to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved Copyright throughout the world No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any meane, electronic, mechanical or photographic, by recording or any information storage or retrieval system or method now known or to be invented or adapted, without prior permission obtained in writing from the publisher, The Octagon Press Limited, except by a reviewer quoting brief passages in a review written for inclusion in a journal, magazine, newspaper or broadcast. Requests for permission to reprint, reproduce, etc., to: Permissions Department, The Octagon Press Ltd., P.O. Box 227, London N6 4EW, England Published by the Octagon Press with the aid of a subvention from the Sufi Trust ISBN 0 863040 12 8 First Published 1982 First printed in this edition 1992 Reprinted 1999 Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall Материал, защищенный авторским правом CONTENTS Tales of the_Classig.aLMaaters 1 Praying for Rain 3 The One without the Other 3 The Disobedience of Moses 4 Sting into Remedy 4 Weapons 6 Elephant-Meat 7 Generosity 9 Grouping 10 Scent and Reality 10 The Heretics 12 Neighbour 13 Teaching 14 The Four Types 14 The Fires of Today... 15 The Law of Reverse Effect 16 Treasure 16 Permission to Expound 18 Questions and Answers 19 Not their Way.., 21 Prayers and Rituals 22 The True and the False Sufi 22 A Ruse 23 Instrumental 24 Vicissitudes of a Teaching 24 Present and Absent 26 Ancient Traditions 26 The Mother of Opposition 28 Science and Omniscience 29 Keeping People Away 31 Parable of the King and the Youth 32 Biographers and Saints 33 Fox and Lion 34 The Effect of Mystical Knowledge 35 Museum-Keeping 35 Subjective Behaviour 36 Cause and Effect 37 Attraction and Importance 38 v Материал, защищенный авторек Sufi Stories 41 Rich and Poor 43 Played Upon 43 The Dervish and his Wish 45 Do as your Friends Wish 46 Hypocrite 47 The Monster 47 Asleep and Awake 49 The Greater World 51 The Lost Jewel 53 The Magician's Dinner 54 The Astrologers 55 In the Desert 56 Master and Disciple 59 Answers 61 Present and Absent 61 Take Care... 62 Measurement of Loyalty 63 Poisoning the Untutored 65 The Promise 65 Idolatry 66 Understanding 67 How the World Aids the Sufi 68 The Loaf of B read 70 Intelligence and Obedience 71 How to Make Them Hear 73 Hypocrisy 73 Whispering 74 Self-Obsessed 75 Alternative View 77 Disguise 78 Follower 78 The Ignorant 79 1001 Days 79 Classical Encounter 80 The Doorways 82 Wishing to be Wise 83 Bound Hand and Foot 83 Value of Parables: ‘My Father’s Son’ 84 Heeding and Unheeding 85 Disputation 85 AnecdotesandNgrratives 87 Relevance 89 Emotion ашШ-гтк 89 GhalibandQalib 90 Virtually Unknown Principle of Human Organisation 91 How to Learn What is Already Known 92 vi Материал, защищенный авторским правом Poor Donkey 94 Nail or Screw? 94 Washerwomen 95 Knowledgeability of the Audience 96 What They Are Like 96 Samples 97 The Road to Khorasan 97 Service 98 As Rich as You... 99 A Word can be One of Three Things... 100 Croaker 101 Wealth of Satisfactions 101 The More the Better 102 Who is at Fault? 103 Pleasant and Unpleasant 104 In Western Garb... 105 Sufis in the West 107 Reasons 108 Folk-Memory 109 ’Men are not Rats!’ 109 Science 110 Reality and Imagination 111 Confusion of Superficial and Perceptive 112 Real and Unreal 113 Disreputable 114 What it Real) v Meant... 115 Who Can Learn? 116 What do you really Know? 117 Human Nature 118 New Knowledge from Old 120 Floor Covering 121 Economics 122 Invention versus Development 123 Deterrent 124 Cause and Effect 125 False Masters: 'Lovelorn Taiwanese’ 126 Troubadours 127 Remarks at the Dinner-meetings 129 Satisfaction 131 Bases and Essentials of Sufi Knowledge 131 Who is the More Spiritual? 132 Recognising It 132 The King and his Son 133 Definitions 134 The Guru 134 Critiques of Sufism 135 Side-Effects 136 vii Материал, защищенный авторек According to the Best Advice 136 Sweets for the Wise 137 Alarm 139 A Basic Pattern 139 Impact 140 The Skill that Nobody Has: Twelve Tales 143 The Skill that Nobody Has 145 The Man who Went in Search of his Fate 152 The Greed for Obstinacy 156 Milk of the Lioness 159 The Spirit of the Well 164 The Princess of the Water of Life 166 Fahima and the Prince 168 Salik and Kamala Ш When the Devil Went to Amman 174 The Robe 179 The Magic Pocket 183 The Son of a Story-Teller 189 Finding the Teaching 194 viii Материал, защищенный авторек 1 TALES OF THE CLASSICAL MASTERS Материал, защищенный авторским п1разом Материал, защищенный авторским правом
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