the king and nasrudin were in a strange town. "nasrudin" said the king, "let us stroll incognito in the city, see how it is like." nasrudin readily agreed and...
... i searched for the purpose of manifestation, for the dharma that caused 'yosy' to be. and found out that the job allocated by cosmos to the temporary name...
you know, it's kind of strange the way many gurdjieffians seem to intentionally overlook the extensive "clues" Gurdjieff himself left pointing to Islamic...
... From what I remember of the Gurdjieff writings, much of territory thru which the seekers traveled had a strong history of Buddhist thought and practice ...
in a biography of Doris Lessing it mentions that, in 1979, Lessing contributed one hundred thousand dollars to set up The Sufi Trust. It then mentions that...
... real friends are not forgotten. no, not ever. they just go out of sight or maybe even out of mind... but out of heart? nah, never! and their smile remains,...
the seven senses listening to myself i hear nothing but silence. and see nothing but light. i smell the fragrance of pure air, caressing my skin. it tastes...
... What color or colors would you envision if the star were made of stained glass? Or is the line of much more significance than the space contained, so color...
I see the shield as full of substance of spirit, and therefore not colored, because trans-parent, conduiting the cosmos, which is, after all, the parent of us...
Obo writes: ~~> Also, for centuries mankind had been eating meat with bread at the same time. It took a card playing Earl to give the name Sandwich to how...
In a message dated 11/9/2007 3:51:18 AM, yosyflug@... writes: any comments, friends? >> What color or colors would you envision if the star were made of ...
Dear members, i missed the disscussion at it's prpper time.But here is some chapters from my book 'Philosophical Reflections' connected with ibn Arabi's...
salam, ... From what is written here, you didn't miss much! LOL. In fact, I would say you didn't miss anything! As for time... caravansari is timeless so no...
Dear friends, i have been reading the last book of nasruddin stories (the one edited after the death of Idries Shah). Comparing it with the previous 3...
Greetings Fellow Readers, By way of introduction without trumpets and as an addition to the wonderful post from Daniel I would like to offer this small story. ...
Dear friends, i remember to have read something like: "if you beat someone or insult an enemy he may forgive you, but if you show no interest in his behaviour,...
the book is "the world of Nasruddin" and as i wrote, it doesnt have the same effect on me as the other nasruddin books of Shah. I find all the pattern...
In a message dated 11/14/2007 3:52:25 AM, dasawaot@... writes: << do you react differently to "the world of nasruddin" than to the others nasruddins...
Obo writes: ~~> OTOH, it is possible to come to the conclusion that the material in this last volume was left over rejects from those collected and published...
Thank you Eric and Obo for your answers As Eric write it (in better engkish than mine):"With a few exceptions, the stories weren't nearly as memorable or...
Hello Omar, For myself if and when a situation arises that I want to find a Nasrudin story which may speak to the occasion at hand, I try to only use the forth...
Dear Obo, happy to communicate with you again. you wrote: "Do you think that the Nasrudin stories might be affected by inflation or conditioning, or changing...
old dear friends ...
hoping a hundred blessings of joy & integrity bloom & blossom like snow flowers of the
shortening days & dropping temperatures , i send...
but , just in case , my ADDRESS is not .fr , but .com ... thus , & sorry to waste anyone's time with this , but ... llorenzo_gusto@... thus , 2 "l's" AND...
In a message dated 11/15/2007 6:07:34 AM, dasawaot@... writes: << (and what does inflation means? inflation of what?). >> Sorry I wasn't very clear,...
John writes: ~~> though i won't bother with useless "explanations" of the nuts'n bolts type details of my passing time <~~ Good to hear you're still alive,...
thank you, beloved the heart of all hearts, for providing the wonderful spirit of nasrudin which unhampered by space or by time or by any particular name ...
i have to admit i'm not a big nasruddin fan. i've only read half of the World of Nasruddin and i agree the tales are not quite as witty and humorous as usual. ...