Book: Favorite aphorisms. Page 2

- What is pride? asked the disciples of Hodja Nasreddin.
Revenge thrown in the trash ego, - said Hodge.

- When you can be sure that you are on the Path? asked the disciples of Hodja Nasreddin.
When the difference disappears between self-knowledge and self-expression, replied the sage.

The neighbor went to Hodja Nasreddin in some confusion.
- I think, in his relationship with Allah I turn a dangerous face: He's beginning to contradict, he said.
"Impossible," replied Hodge. - You overheard the wrangle his ego with Shaytan.

- That is a sign of true religious experience? asked the disciples of Hodja Nasreddin.
- Keen sense of his humanity, - said the sage.

- Tell us about jealousy - asked the disciples of Hodja Nasreddin.
- Jealousy is a human reaction to those forms of the divine love, which at the moment does not suit him, explained the sage.

Khoja Nasreddin was sitting with his disciples in the teahouse; his donkey was grazing next to Bush of thistles.
- Explain to us what it means to live in the here and now - asked the disciples.
Hodge got up, jumped on his ass and hit his heels on the sides.
The donkey did not budge and continued to chew the Thistle.
Nasreddin climbed off the donkey and began to have the strength to pull him by the bridle.
Ass rested all four hooves and didn't move, still chewing a Thistle.
Hodge, wiping the sweat from his forehead, sat down with his disciples and began expectantly to look at ass.
Finally the donkey was eating the thistles and went to Nasreddin. Hodge sat on it and drove home.
Good - bye! he shouted to the students.

- What it means to be in the world but not of the world? - asked a neighbor Nasreddin Hodja.
The world with his passions like the evil Genie who imprisoned more than a thousand years, ' said Hodge. The wise man always carries it with him: securely sealed in a bottle of Detachment.

- Well if life is the students under your yoke? asked Khoja Nasreddin skeptic.
- No worse than under their own ego, assured him Nasreddin.

Teacher! I came to you! cried, rushing to Khodzha Nasreddin, a young mystic.
"I" has come, you - yet - gently corrected him Hodge.

Hodja Nasreddin went neighbor.
- Something I hadn't seen, greeted him Hodge.
In deep solitude I germinated the seeds of Virtues, - gloomily said the neighbor. - Climbed all planted, but the Wisdom and Mercy.
- You forgot to fertilize the soil with manure of a donkey's Life Experience, - said Hodge.

- You say everything is in parables but the parables, ' said Khoja Nasreddin skeptic. - Why not say so?
- Go to God, - replied the Hodja.

- Do not you afraid that the knowledge that you learn can be used for evil? asked Khoja Nasreddin skeptic.
- I'm afraid I better not answer, - said Nasreddin.

- Have you met in the lives of people whose wisdom is superior to yours? asked the disciples of Hodja Nasreddin.
- Meet every day, - said Hodge. - But not always smart enough to understand it.

- How do you select students by himself? asked Khoja Nasreddin.
I'm to meet with them, - said Hodge. And they are willing to go on gotovenkoe.