On Conditioned Personality - A Sufi Parable

[sophia]

All this talk about Conditioned Mind / Personality made me notice a passage when skimming through a book.

"Among the Sufis there is a story, related by Attar, of a dervish who applied to enter a monastery wearing black. When he was asked-by Ibn Khafif, who died about 1,000 years ago-why he was in mourning, he answered that his 'God was dead'. The people there expelled him forty times before they absorbed the fact that his 'god' - that which he had worshipped - had been his secondary self, the conditioned personality."

~Learning How to Learn - Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way, by Idries Shah

[swamicollins]

yes but darling he was still playing the mind game of pretending that because he knew the words that he "was in the space"-a common delusion amongst people who confuse Conditioned Self(I have never anywhere referred to Conditioned Mind have I-but then youve NEVER read my book have you-Mind exists in you through a conditioning process but it is NOT conditioned-too subtle for Sufi Addicts--beseide Sufis are devotees of "allah" a malevolent Disincarnate spirit created by CREATION to mislead those not advanced enough to be MISLED
and your one of those Sophia--BYE BYE

[sophia]

Dear Lord Collins,

A closed mind is not too terribly an awful thing to lose.

I wish for you peace and happiness.

[Reefs]

Oct 30, 2008 22:44:18 GMT -5 sophia said:

A closed mind is not too terribly an awful thing to lose.

Yes.