Nevit O. Ergin
(Paperback)
Inner Traditions
2009-02-12
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$14.95
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Authentic expression of Sufi tradition
I have been pondering the stories in Tales of a Modern Sufi for some months now and have come to count the book as one of a handful that I can return to repeatedly to help me understand the path. The stories are deeply unsettling--in a very positive way. They seem to speak not only to my...
Astounding!
What to expand your consciousness? Buy this book and read it. Wow! It really cannot be described. It just needs to be read with an open mind. Loved it (smile)
Seven A SAMPLE OF TALES A tale, fictitious or otherwise, illuminates Truth. — Jelaluddin Rumi (thirteenth-century Sufi)1 As mentioned in connection with Sufi literature, the structure of Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson is non-linear; ...
'Where time and history could be held at bay'
The chapter entitled "Lahore is Lahore" is a memorable documentation of the most famous saying in Punjabi, lahaurlahaurhai . Suvorova usesPitrasBukhari's timeless essay, "Geography of Lahore" and its fluid, expansive wit to examine the kind of devotion that Lahore engenders. Suvorova rightly tells us that Lahore's Inner Walled City, (or AnderoonShehr) is struggling to survive as a relic of the pre-industrial era in a world that perhaps is post-industrial. Concluding her discussion, she writes asâthe city that was built on by people who had converted to Islam, and had already developed their own pre-Islamic urban culture", Lahore brings together The City of God and The City models. I haven't read for a long time something that can be termed as insightful as this passage: "[Lahore] turns to Mecca during prayer, preserves the memory of its imperial past, and considers itself to be a megalopolis similar to Rome. As the city founded by the son of a deity, and built
Tales of a Modern Sufi: The Invisible Fence of Reality and Other ...
Sufi stories have traditionally been a way to open a portal that allows us to move forward based on our perceptions of extraordinary states of consciousness. This deceptively simple story collection by the famous Sufi Rumi translator and Nevit Ergin has the ability to remove the sense of complacent players' self and identity and to expand their awareness of the ordinary reality of every possible direction. In his stories the primrose path travel suddenly turns into a crook hall of mirrors in which we learn that we are children of Adam and Eve, the children of our perceptions.The protagonists and antagonists of these stories are constantly morphing and exchanging places. They exist in a world where individuals are being chased by a cricket is an "invisible monster with the face of a demon," ambiguous face the burden of freeing themselves of their body, and discover the "invisible fence of reality" in the existing layers of a discarded piece of art....
By Saira Agha Since the Sufiyana season is back and rocking with 'Coke Studio Season 5', all Pakistani music lovers these days seem to be crooning continuously and crazily downloading Sufi songs and their modern renditions. Why is it educational is as
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This was long before the Sufi tsunami had consumed the subcontinent. "If there is anyone who knows and appreciates my music, it is Rekha," the songstress had told me. And it was true, for when she did come accompanied with Farzana and a cousin,
I was fairly introduced to the English classics and early modern American literature in the well kept library of my late father who was a bit of an anglophile when it came to literary taste. The school atmosphere too fostered a love for languages.
It also reached the Malay peninsula in the more animal-friendly form of Tales Of A Parrot. As this exhibition shows, the influence went back much further and helped to inspire writers such as Shakespeare and John Donne. The earliest and most enduringly
This was long before the Sufi tsunami had consumed the subcontinent. "If there is anyone who knows and appreciates my music, it is Rekha," the songstress had told me. And it was true, for when she did come accompanied with Farzana and a cousin,
It also reached the Malay peninsula in the more animal-friendly form of Tales Of A Parrot. As this exhibition shows, the influence went back much further and helped to inspire writers such as Shakespeare and John Donne. The earliest and most enduringly