Thursday, November 4, 2010

A METAPHOR FOR ENLIGHTENMENT

.A metaphor for enlightenment


.This time, a highly educational Mulla Nasrudin story...

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.Mulla was crossing a street in his village when a man approached him saying, `Do you know that your wife is being unfaithful to you?'
Mulla quickly replied, `That's impossible. My wife would never be unfaithful to me.'
The man answered, `I can prove it to you. At midnight tonight she has a rendezvous with her lover under the fig tree at the edge of the village.'
Mulla was very upset and, anticipating a duel with his wife's lover, went to buy a pistol.
All day he practiced and thought about the fight and at eleven in the evening, he went to the fig tree in a terrific state of mind.
He climbed into the tree and, being a very passionate man, leapt from branch to branch in a frenzy of jealousy and anger. He pictured his wife in her lover's arms and practiced from every angle the blow he would deliver to his rival.
At ten minutes to twelve he listened carefully but could not yet hear anything. At five to twelve he was in a state of unbearable agitation and expectation. At three minutes to twelve there was still no sound of them and every nerve in his body was on edge. At twelve o'clock he was unmoving as a tiger about to pounce on its prey. But still nothing happened under the tree.
Then he was suddenly struck in all his being by a tremendous insight: `I'm not married!'

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