A wise man was once staying with his wealthy friend. This wealthy friend held a big banquet in honor of the wise man. At the end of the dinner, the host noticed that a golden spoon had been stolen. To help discover who it was, the wise man asked everybody. Still, he couldn’t determine the…
There once was a scientist who was obsessed with immortality. Ever since he heard of the Fountain of Youth as a boy he knew that his life quest would be to extend human life for as long as possible — forever if he could.
So dedicated was he to this goal that he devoted his every waking moment to the study of medicine, genetics, astronautics and…
A king asked a sage to explain the Truth. In response the sage asked the king how he would convey the taste of a mango to someone who had never eaten anything sweet. No matter how hard the king tried, he could not adequately describe the flavor of the fruit, and, in frustration, he…
Catherine the Great received some boxes of freshly harvested oranges in the dead cold of winter. The note that came with it said they were from a distant port. The note said, ‘See what we are capable of bringing to you? We need your help to grow even more.’ Impressed, she sent a massive amount of money so that this port could develop further.
However, the oranges had been brought from other countries through the Black Sea. Without telling lies, the note to the empress did not…
Once there was a common man who had an uncommon sense. People of his small town went to him with their problems and some others like to be with him and listen to him.
One day a man came and asked What is Ego? They say its bad…
A Sufi mystic stopped Nasrudin in the street. In order to test whether Nasrudin was sensitive to inner knowledge, he made a sign pointing to the sky. The Sufi meant, There is only one truth, which covers all.
Nasrudin’s companion, an ordinary man, thought…
Once upon a time there was a girl who had four boyfriends.
She loved the fourth boyfriend the most and adorned him with rich robes
And treated him to the finest of delicacies. She gave him nothing but
The best.
She also loved the third boyfriend very much and was always…
A young man, a student in one of the universities, was one day taking a walk with a professor, who was commonly called the students’ friend for his kindness to those who waited on his instructions.
As they went along, they saw lying in the path a pair of old shoes, which were supposed to belong to a poor man who was working in a field close by, and who had nearly finished his day’s work…
Lame Elk, who had just passed his 14th year, had taken on the family responsibility of his father, Standing Elk. His father and mother had both been killed several months before in an attack on the village by a nomadic hostile tribe. He was fulfilling all his father’s and mother’s duties of providing food, shelter and nurturing for his younger brother and two younger sisters.
He was proud of himself, even though it was harder to do than he let on…
Laws as such do not make people better, said Mulla Nasrudin to the King; they must practice certain things, in order to become attuned to inner truth. This form of truth resembles apparent truth only slightly.
The King decided that he could, and would, make people observe the truth. He could make them practice truthfulness…
