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(OP) User ID: 44975315 Canada 02/24/2021 03:03 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yeah, I looked, couldn’t find that particular story, just some other ones I already knew of. Thanks for the suggestion anyways. "A wise man listens to the message and uses his logic and discernment to process it, a fool negates the message by prejudging the messenger." "He whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere." |
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(OP) User ID: 44975315 Canada 02/24/2021 03:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.istockphoto.com (secure)] Well done. "A wise man listens to the message and uses his logic and discernment to process it, a fool negates the message by prejudging the messenger." "He whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere." |
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(OP) User ID: 44975315 Canada 02/24/2021 03:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Fantastic! Thank you much. I will purchase the book from Abe books , I prefer reading a paper book as opposed to digital. Much appreciated! "A wise man listens to the message and uses his logic and discernment to process it, a fool negates the message by prejudging the messenger." "He whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere." |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 80043531 South Africa 02/24/2021 03:36 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | . I read this story many years ago in a Sufi book of short stories. The title of this specific short story, I remember specifically, is called "The Day The Waters Changed." I've been trying to remember what the book was called and I've been searching online for it for so many years without any luck. There are many other short stories contained therein that are equally mind blowing. Like the story of a conversation between a stream and the air, where the stream has to surrender itself to the air to cross the desert, and with the stream grappling with self sacrifice and it's own mortality to fulfill it's destiny by joining itself to the ocean on the other side of the desert. Another story is one where a student of a certain Sufi order, whose founder has been said to walk on water, keeps repeating the same chant incorrectly over and over, and his teacher tries to teach him the correct way but he keeps getting it wrong. The teacher gets frustrated and leaves on a boat, but then the students comes running on top of the water to ask the teacher to tell him again how to properly pronounce it. Lol, which shows that it's not the ritual and dogma that is important, but rather the intent. I think the book probably has a simple title, like "An Anthology of Sufi Short Stories" or with the name Al Khidr or Green Man in the title. I've searched, using those words and others, in the search box and read many of the books in the search suggestions, but so far I've had no luck. Thank you for mentioning this, OP. At least now I know it's not just me seeking this treasure. I hope the AC who posted it, sees your thread, and blesses us with the title of this wonderful book. |
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(OP) User ID: 44975315 Canada 02/24/2021 03:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | . Quoting: Anonymous Coward 80043531 I read this story many years ago in a Sufi book of short stories. The title of this specific short story, I remember specifically, is called "The Day The Waters Changed." I've been trying to remember what the book was called and I've been searching online for it for so many years without any luck. There are many other short stories contained therein that are equally mind blowing. Like the story of a conversation between a stream and the air, where the stream has to surrender itself to the air to cross the desert, and with the stream grappling with self sacrifice and it's own mortality to fulfill it's destiny by joining itself to the ocean on the other side of the desert. Another story is one where a student of a certain Sufi order, whose founder has been said to walk on water, keeps repeating the same chant incorrectly over and over, and his teacher tries to teach him the correct way but he keeps getting it wrong. The teacher gets frustrated and leaves on a boat, but then the students comes running on top of the water to ask the teacher to tell him again how to properly pronounce it. Lol, which shows that it's not the ritual and dogma that is important, but rather the intent. I think the book probably has a simple title, like "An Anthology of Sufi Short Stories" or with the name Al Khidr or Green Man in the title. I've searched, using those words and others, in the search box and read many of the books in the search suggestions, but so far I've had no luck. Thank you for mentioning this, OP. At least now I know it's not just me seeking this treasure. I hope the AC who posted it, sees your thread, and blesses us with the title of this wonderful book. The poster who posted on this thread at 3:25 am gave a link to the source of that writing. Enjoy! "A wise man listens to the message and uses his logic and discernment to process it, a fool negates the message by prejudging the messenger." "He whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere." |
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The Alchemist User ID: 80043531 South Africa 02/24/2021 03:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | . Quoting: Anonymous Coward 80043531 I read this story many years ago in a Sufi book of short stories. The title of this specific short story, I remember specifically, is called "The Day The Waters Changed." I've been trying to remember what the book was called and I've been searching online for it for so many years without any luck. There are many other short stories contained therein that are equally mind blowing. Like the story of a conversation between a stream and the air, where the stream has to surrender itself to the air to cross the desert, and with the stream grappling with self sacrifice and it's own mortality to fulfill it's destiny by joining itself to the ocean on the other side of the desert. Another story is one where a student of a certain Sufi order, whose founder has been said to walk on water, keeps repeating the same chant incorrectly over and over, and his teacher tries to teach him the correct way but he keeps getting it wrong. The teacher gets frustrated and leaves on a boat, but then the students comes running on top of the water to ask the teacher to tell him again how to properly pronounce it. Lol, which shows that it's not the ritual and dogma that is important, but rather the intent. I think the book probably has a simple title, like "An Anthology of Sufi Short Stories" or with the name Al Khidr or Green Man in the title. I've searched, using those words and others, in the search box and read many of the books in the search suggestions, but so far I've had no luck. Thank you for mentioning this, OP. At least now I know it's not just me seeking this treasure. I hope the AC who posted it, sees your thread, and blesses us with the title of this wonderful book. The poster who posted on this thread at 3:25 am gave a link to the source of that writing. Enjoy! . Yes, I most definitely will. Thank you for this thread. . |
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User ID: 2154157 United States 02/24/2021 04:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | An ac posted a short post on the current pinned thread. Quoting: LTHN. Anyone know what book that story would be from? I would love to find out, and read the book. Here is his story: “ Once upon a time Khidr, the teacher of Moses, called upon mankind with a warning. At a certain date, he said, all the water in the world which had not been specially hoarded, would disappear. It would then be renewed, with different water, which would drive men mad. Only one man listened to the meaning of this advice. He collected water and went to a secure place where he stored it, and waited for the water to change its character. On the appointed date the streams stopped running, the wells went dry, and the man who had listened, seeing this happening, went to his retreat and drank his preserved water. When he saw, from his security, the waterfalls again beginning to flow, this man descended among the other sons of men. He found that they were thinking and talking in an entirely different way from before; yet they had no memory of what had happened, nor of having been warned. When he tried to talk to them, he realized that they thought that he was mad, and they showed hostility or compassion, not understanding. At first, he drank none of the new water, but went back to his concealment, to draw on his supplies, every day. Finally, however, he took the decision to drink the new water because he could not bear the loneliness of living, behaving and thinking in a different way from everyone else. He drank the new water, and became like the rest. Then he forgot all about his own store of special water, and his fellows began to look upon him as a madman who had miraculously been restored to sanity.” Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74822105 Thanks! I was just recalling this story (ancient Persian parable methinks) couple of days ago while discussing with my colleagues via Teams. Lust for power exposes the slave. Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies. |
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(OP) User ID: 44975315 Canada 02/24/2021 04:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | An ac posted a short post on the current pinned thread. Quoting: LTHN. Anyone know what book that story would be from? I would love to find out, and read the book. Here is his story: “ Once upon a time Khidr, the teacher of Moses, called upon mankind with a warning. At a certain date, he said, all the water in the world which had not been specially hoarded, would disappear. It would then be renewed, with different water, which would drive men mad. Only one man listened to the meaning of this advice. He collected water and went to a secure place where he stored it, and waited for the water to change its character. On the appointed date the streams stopped running, the wells went dry, and the man who had listened, seeing this happening, went to his retreat and drank his preserved water. When he saw, from his security, the waterfalls again beginning to flow, this man descended among the other sons of men. He found that they were thinking and talking in an entirely different way from before; yet they had no memory of what had happened, nor of having been warned. When he tried to talk to them, he realized that they thought that he was mad, and they showed hostility or compassion, not understanding. At first, he drank none of the new water, but went back to his concealment, to draw on his supplies, every day. Finally, however, he took the decision to drink the new water because he could not bear the loneliness of living, behaving and thinking in a different way from everyone else. He drank the new water, and became like the rest. Then he forgot all about his own store of special water, and his fellows began to look upon him as a madman who had miraculously been restored to sanity.” Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74822105 Thanks! I was just recalling this story (ancient Persian parable methinks) couple of days ago while discussing with my colleagues via Teams. Synchronicities, wonderful. "A wise man listens to the message and uses his logic and discernment to process it, a fool negates the message by prejudging the messenger." "He whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere." |