A teaching story is a narrative deliberately created as a vehicle for transmitting wisdom, a practice used across a number of religious and other traditions; the writer Idries Shah's use of the form in the context of Sufi teaching described this body of material as among the most valuable treasures in the human heritage. Teaching stories range across anecdotes, accounts of meetings between teachers and pupils, biographies, myths, fairy tales, fables and jokes, and such stories often live on well beyond their original teaching context, contributing substantially to the world's folklore and literature.
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Defining TraitPurpose is to change the thinking process itself 1 Sources
1. Teaching story (Wikipedia)
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Their purpose is ultimately to change the thinking process itself.
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