Nasrudin and snoring
Mullah Nasrudin’s wife kept complaining that he snored. The Mullah said, “It is absolutely impossible. I have awakened myself a few times in the middle of the night and I was never snoring.”
Since this was short I’ll include a few other short Mullah Nasrudin teaching stories.
Heaven and hell:
They asked Nasrudin how long will [...]
Here are three short teaching stories:
Nasrudin and thank God:
Mullah Nasrudin had bought a new pair of shoes that he only wore to feasts. One day, he was plowing his field while wearing hi pair of old torn shoes. He hurt his foot on a big thorn. As he was washing and bandaging his bloody foot [...]
One day in Baghdad Hassan Tehrani was walking by the banks of the Tigris when he was surprised to see Death. As soon as he saw death he noticed the great surprise on Death’s face and Hassan ran away.
When Hassan got home he thought about how to get away from death. He talked to his [...]
Here we have two teaching stories one from Zen sources and another from Sufi with the same message about powers or miracles.
A student of Zen got some powers after ten years of Zazen (sitting Zen meditation). He ran into the master’s chamber and excitedly told him of the powers he had acquired from his practice. [...]
Many years ago in the indefinite past, I was driving in the desert. The road was empty and there were not a single dwellings for 256 miles. I was told to chose an alternate rout which was longer but had many villages on the way and the roads were well traveled. I was young and [...]
One day Satan complained to God, “It’s so unjust. Whenever bad happens, no matter what people do, they blame me.”
God said, “Show me what you mean?”
Satan saw a powerful billy goat attached to a rope tied to a stake. Satan loosened the stake and said, “That’s all I’m doing.”
The goat pulled out the stake and [...]
The following two puzzles are ascribed to Ali Ibn Talib, Amir Al Momenin (Ali the son of Talib, the Prince of the Faithful, the son in law of the prophet Mohamad – mpbh – the first Imam of the Shiites and the fourth true Khalif of the Sunies). Basically he’s is an extremely important dude [...]
In the olden days there was a wise physician who had an eager apprentice. This student kept asking the master if he could prescribe for on the patients. The teacher kept repeating that the student was not yet ready.
The pupil kept importuning and pleading to serve a patient. Eventually the teacher said, “Soon a patient [...]
The Zen master’s best freind had died. He burst our crying at the funeral.
A novice tugged at his sleeve and asked, “Master, master, is this world not illusory?”
The Zen master replied in the affirmative, “It is so.”
“Are not life and death just parts of samsara (the teaching of the Buddha that life is permeated with [...]
