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Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), as we begin today \u2018let us remember this about \u2018Attention\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our life experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to. Attention: is important and most of the times we are so indifferent to it. It is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. We feed the hunger blindly. Once the mechanism is brought to our attention and we begin to study it, it is as if a veil has been stripped off ordinary life, and we become freer in our action and choices.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week I bring to your attention a story titled \u2018Sound and Unsound<\/em>\u2019 from the book titled \u2018Wisdom of the Idiots\u2019. It is a carefully chosen collection of illustrative anecdotes and stories used in Sufi teaching here the stories contain several levels of meaning and work like psychological mirrors in which the reader may see himself and reality reflected, and come to better understand both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Persian word dervish <\/strong>is generally considered to be derived from the verb der-vekhtan <\/strong>to wait at a door. The reference is to waiting before the door of enlightenment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sound and Unsound<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A wandering Seeker saw a dervish in a rest-house and said to him:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018I have been in a hundred climes and heard the teachings of a multitude of mentors. I have learned how to decide when a teacher is not a spiritual man. I cannot tell a genuine Guide, or how to find one, but half the work completed is better than nothing?’ <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dervish rent his garments and said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miserable man! Becoming an expert on the useless is like being able to detect rotten apples without learning the characteristics of the sound ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018But there is a still worse possibility before you. Beware that you do not become like the doctor in the story. In order to test a physician’s knowledge, a certain king sent several healthy people to be examined by him. To each the doctor gave medicine. When the king summoned him and charged him with this deceit, the leech answered: ‘Great King! I had for so long seen nobody but the ailing that I had begun to imagine that everyone was ill and mistook the bright eyes of good health for the signs of fever!’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story from \u2018Wisdom of the Idiots\u2019 by Idries Shah<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am sure that you will enjoy reading this book; you can buy your copy from the following link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wisdom of the Idiots by Idries Shah<\/a><\/blockquote>