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The Idries Shah Podcast | Practical Psychology for Today

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Yoga of the Primary

Sufi classical literature warns against teachers who accept all comers. The real sufi insists on not allowing his pupils to estrange themselves from the community they belong. This is why true sufi communities and their members are never to be found. Insisted every cult is a form of yoga yoking. But 99 out of a hundred people, both putitative teachers and imagined pupils, are yoked to the secondary. This is the yoga of failure. Aim for the yoga of the primary.

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