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by Idries Shah (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 209 pages
  • Publisher: Octagon Press Ltd; New edition edition (April 1985)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0863040403
  • ISBN-13: 978-0863040405
  • Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.2 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 28,279 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Here, Nasrudin's anecdotes are set in parallel to the workings of the mind - designed to amuse the audience in the tea-house, but also intended to be used on other levels.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Entertains you while it works on you., 20 Dec 1998
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Mulla Nasrudin entertains and keeps the spirits light while his actions and inactions, sayings and things left unsaid work on your mind and your views. Reading this book is an exercise that feels like indulgence. Each trip through the book brings different impacts and meanings to you. Enlightening, while inconspicuous.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Nasrudin- humour,profundity and a wise combination of them., 7 April 2000
Nasrudin I recommend to anyone who has a sense of humour which is more than superficial. I have bought this book for many young people (and older ones) as I feel it is really healthy mind fodder- it is lighthearted concentration which is so rare and so essential for both our education and our society, (which so often is either strain or collapse- not a deeply happy mindfulness). I cannot recommend this double and the other single Nasrudin book highly enough. Buy it also for all your friends, students, associates and relatives!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Some sage advice in multilayered stories, 25 Jan 2006
The exploits of Mulla Nasrudin are supposed to demonstrate issues of sufism in practice, and it may well do, i don't know much about sufism, but this is quite a nice little book nevertheless.

These are very short tales - not much longer than Aesop's fables and they demonstrate human falibility and strength on a number of different levels inspiring great thought.

For instance the tale of Nasrudin becoming scared when seeing riders on the rode, imagining he would be captured by them and sold into slavery he flees over a nearby wall. the good Travellers who cannot understand the action pursue him to make sure he is all right and find him cowering in a grave. Nasrudin observes he fled there because of them and they came to the grave because of him. On the surface a strange tale and yet the deeper meaning of motivations unravels a whole new set of concepts to consider.

This reminds me of some of the sayings of yogi berra, they are shorter but in fact same appealing levels of meaning to them that question our understanding of events.

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