The Mind-Altering Humor of the Sufis


	The Mind-Altering Humor of the Sufis

Mohir

7-5-2007 5:32 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/218d7287-c57c-40c8-bb04-919bd7799a28/AC3CC6B7-4BBE-4FBE-80AA-5839BA895548/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/324/the-mind-altering-humor-of-the-sufis/" href="http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/324/the-mind-altering-humor-of-the-sufis/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ponderabout.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/324/the-mind-altering-humor-of-the-sufis/"><H2><A title="Permanent Link: The Mind-Altering Humor of the Sufis" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/324/the-mind-altering-humor-of-the-sufis/" linkindex="1" set="yes">The Mind-Altering Humor of the Sufis</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/324/the-mind-altering-humor-of-the-sufis/"><P><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idries_Shah" linkindex="3">Idries Shah</A> was an Afghan-born Sufi scholar and
author whose many books have brought <STRONG>Sufism</STRONG>
to the attention of the West</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/324/the-mind-altering-humor-of-the-sufis/"><P>the <EM>Britannica Concise Encyclopedia</EM> defines Sufism
as, “a mystical movement within Islam that seeks to
find divine love and knowledge through direct
personal experience of God.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/324/the-mind-altering-humor-of-the-sufis/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ponderabout.com/img/B8F01ECF-D741-4351-97F4-E8D7D9AAB4CF" alt="mulla_nasrudin_2.png" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/324/the-mind-altering-humor-of-the-sufis/"><P>among Shah’s works are three volumes of Sufi
teaching stories that feature the mythological
<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasrudin" linkindex="4" set="yes">Mulla Nasrudin</A> - a wise fool whose humorous
exploits are the subject of thousands of stories</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/324/the-mind-altering-humor-of-the-sufis/"><P>Shah describes them as, “perfectly designed models
for isolating and holding distortions of the mind which
so often pass for reasonable behavior.”</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AC3CC6B7-4BBE-4FBE-80AA-5839BA895548/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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