Learning how to learn : psychology and spirituality in the Sufi way
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Learning how to learn : psychology and spirituality in the Sufi way
Arkana Penguin, 1993
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"First published by the Octagon Press, London, 1978" -- T.p. verso
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Description
This is a collection of stories, interviews by Shah and miscellaneous thoughts - all on Sufism. The book provides an introduction to a way of thinking that has inspired men and women all over the world.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Real and imagined study: Sufis and their imitators
- attaining knowledge
- secrets and the Sufis
- when to have meetings
- the ceiling
- conflicting texts
- self-deception
- journeys to the east
- what a Sufi teacher looks like
- books and beyond books
- saintliness
- secrecy
- "You Can't Teach by Correspondence"
- background to "Humility"
- how serious is the student?
- social and psychological elements in Sufi study. Part 2 On attention: characteristics of attention and observation
- operation of the attention factor
- motivation of transactions
- attention under personal control
- excess and deprivation of attention
- study of people and ideas apart from their attention value
- identification of underlying factors
- raising the emotional pitch
- fossil indicators. Part 3 Sufi study themes: assumptions behind actions
- exercising power through kindness
- copying virtue
- finding a teacher
- what is gained from repetition
- robes and apparatus of the Sufi
- why you are asked to help
- laziness. Part 4 Things of the world: an eastern sage and the newspapers
- basis for people's interest
- thinking in terms of supply-and-demand
- the effect of tales and narratives
- stories of the miraculous
- continuous versus effective activity
- capacity comes before opinion
- sanctified greed
- psychic idiots
- when criticism can stop
- information and experience
- the teaching is a matter of conduct
- knowing one's own sincerity
- the would-be and should-be people
- satisfactions and purpose of ritual
- real and ostensible self-improvement
- roles of teacher and student. Part 5 Action and meaning: real and relative generosity
- why do Sufis excel?
- confusion as a personal problem
- being a "Guru"
- systems
- the vehicle and the objective
- concern and campaign
- use, misuse and disuse of forms of study
- potentiality and function
- conditioning and education
- the search for an honest man
- how can one method be as good as another?. Part 6 Twenty-three study points: a viable unit
- being supported
- being physically present
- intensely standardised
- organisations and greed
- generosity as a greed
- what you do for yourself
- graduating to a higher morality
- concluding that we are worthless
- that which attracts you about us...
- giving and withholding
- and external assessment
- standing between you and knowledge
- direct contact with a source of knowledge
- latent knowledge
- provoking capacity
- systematic study
- consistency and system
- illumination and information
- habit of judging
- higher-level work
- games and annoyance
- aspirations and acquisition
- opinion and fact. Part 7 Overall study: learning and non-learning
- some characteristics of Sufi literature
- impartiality as a point of view
- characteristics and purposes of a Sufi group
- prerequisites for a student of Sufism
- in step is out of step
- "Dye your Prayer-Rug with Wine"
- the master-dyer
- method, system and conditioning
- western culture
- the western tradition
- how does the Sufi teach?
- idiot's wisdom?
- attacking fires
- a bridge and its use
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