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Mullah Nasrudin
I'd like to introduce you to (if you haven't already heard of him, the eternal comedian, the wise fool), Mullah Nasrudin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasreddin
Perhaps I'll post a story or joke every day or every few days just to set a tone, perhaps.
Here's todays:
"The Missing Donkey
One day the Mullah took his eleven donkeys to the bazaar to sell. On the way he counted his donkeys and noticed that there were only ten. He thought to himself, "What a fool I am, I lost one of my donkeys." So he got off his donkey and counted again and this time he counted eleven. "Thanks be to God," he thought, "I have found my lost beast." He rode his donkey again and when he counted in a little while again he counted only ten. He became anxious thinking that he must have left one behind. Again when he counted he had eleven donkeys. He said to himself, "It's best I walk to the bazaar, else I'll lose a donkey for sure."
(A variation on that is in Zen stories, about ten monks walking across a raging river, fearing one was lost & drowned.)
Perhaps I'll post a story or joke every day or every few days just to set a tone, perhaps.
Here's todays:
"The Missing Donkey
One day the Mullah took his eleven donkeys to the bazaar to sell. On the way he counted his donkeys and noticed that there were only ten. He thought to himself, "What a fool I am, I lost one of my donkeys." So he got off his donkey and counted again and this time he counted eleven. "Thanks be to God," he thought, "I have found my lost beast." He rode his donkey again and when he counted in a little while again he counted only ten. He became anxious thinking that he must have left one behind. Again when he counted he had eleven donkeys. He said to himself, "It's best I walk to the bazaar, else I'll lose a donkey for sure."
(A variation on that is in Zen stories, about ten monks walking across a raging river, fearing one was lost & drowned.)