Pensadores de Oriente Book

Thinkers of the East.. 30/01 /2020.
'If you were to ask a traditional Eastern sage for his 'system', he would look at you as a modern physician would if you asked for his 'panacea for all ills'. He might invite you to apply to a seller of nostrums on a fair ground. He would certainly diagnose you as a primitive who had still to learn the first lesson about knowledge.' First page of the preface: the second paragraph.
Given the present and prevalent panacea of 'systems' we might take heed.
A man found the secret teacher working as a ferry man. Khidre read his thoughts and said to him:
'If I approach people in the street and tell them what to do they will think I am mad, or am doing it for myself, and they will not do it. If I dress like learned or rich man, and advice them, they will disobey or else simply try to please me, instead of trying to please that which I represent. But if I mix with people and say a word here and a word there , some will listen just as you yourself recognised me and a thouand others did not.'
Someone ( I think) described this book as remedial.
I cannot recommend the full corpus of Idries Shah's books enough: in every one of them there is a profundity of which one comprehends the various smidgen.