Tales of a Modern Sufi: The Invisible Fence of Reality and

Tales of a Modern Sufi: The Invisible Fence of Reality and Other Stories
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A collection of modern Sufi tales by renowned Rumi translator and Sufi initiate Nevit Ergin

â€¢ Contains 24 deceptively simple stories that invoke questioning and awareness

â€¢ By the renowned English translator of Rumiâ€™s complete Divan-i Kebir

Sufi stories have traditionally been a means of opening a portal that allows us to advance from our basic perceptions into states of extraordinary awareness. This collection of deceptively simple stories by renowned Rumi translator and Sufi Nevit Ergin has the ability to remove readersâ€™ complacent sense of self and identity and to expand their ordinary awareness of reality from every possible direction. In his stories the primrose path we travel suddenly turns into a tricksterâ€™s hall of mirrors where we learn that we are not children of Adam and Eve so much as 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 stalked by a cricket that is an â€œinvisible monster with the face of a demon,â€ confront the ambiguous burden of ridding oneself of oneâ€™s own corpse, and discover the â€œinvisible fence of realityâ€ existing in the layers of a discarded piece of art. The symbols in these stories are booby traps designed to release the mind from the sense of its own importance and awaken the realization that â€œif you refuse to be born, you cannot die.â€ Blind faith, the author says, has proved itself incapable of producing wisdom, tolerance, or world peace. This is because the answers to humanityâ€™s problems lie beyond our ordinary perception and require love and ecstasy to be made visible. Our thirst for wisdom and understanding must go to the fountain of universal truth. These stories provide water from that fountain.
Country USA
Brand Inner Traditions
Manufacturer Inner Traditions
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 624616
ReleaseDate 2009-02-12
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781594772702

Country	USA
Brand	Inner Traditions
Manufacturer	Inner Traditions
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	624616
ReleaseDate	2009-02-12
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781594772702

Tales of a Modern Sufi: The Invisible Fence of Reality and Other Stories

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