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The Man with Bad Manners

by Idries Shah

📖 32 pages 🗓 2004 ISBN 9781883536305

About This Book

A traditional Sufi teaching story in which a man notorious for bad manners encounters repeated misfortune — and the responses of different characters to his behaviour reveal the specific quality of inner development each has achieved.

What You'll Learn

Receive through story the Sufi teaching on how people at different levels of inner development respond to the same apparently unacceptable behaviour. Recognise in the responses of the characters the qualities of tolerance, wisdom, reactivity, and genuine understanding. Use this mirror to examine your own habitual responses to difficult people and challenging behaviour.

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