Tao Te Ching
Saadi Shiraz سعدی شیرازی
1210 – 1292 CE
One of the greatest Persian poets and literary influences in medieval times and an influence on the West through people like Goethe, Hegel, Pushkin, and Barack Obama; Saadi - with a Zen-like approach similar to the great Tibetan teacher, Marpa - blended a mystical Sufi realization with a practical traveling merchant lifestyle. Escaping the hardship and poverty of his Baghdad youth, he traveled widely for 30 years including 7 years of imprisonment enslaved to hard labor. He then wandered 20 more years during the Mongol invasions mingling with ordinary people, bandits, refugees, spiritual teachers and farmers translating their experiences into poetry and wisdom teachings.
Eras
Chinese
5 Kingdom of Dali 大理国 (937 – 1253 CE)Southern Song (1127 – 1279 CE)
Jin dynasty (1115 – 1234 CE)
Yuan Dynasty 元朝 (1271 – 1368 CE)
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Quotes by Saadi Shiraz (1 quotes)
“If the diver always thought of the shark, he would never lay hands on the pearl.”
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