Book: Favorite aphorisms. Page 3

Teacher! - addressed to Khodja Nasreddin student. - I'm so inconsistent, contradictory, constantly fluctuating between love and hate, doubt and faith, tenderness and intolerance, and at times frankly scratchy. Isn't it hard for you with me?
Look at this Bush of thistles, - said Hodge. It's green, dusted, decorated with beautiful flowers and covered in sharp thorns - but is my ass the perfect food.

- How to distinguish true feeling of self-worth from false? asked the disciples of Hodja Nasreddin.
- Imagine a caravan of camels walking in the desert, invited Nasreddin. - What do you feel?
The first camel! - exclaimed one of the students.
The tail of the latter, said another.
The ruthless sun, - said the third.
The driver, ' said the fourth.
- Dunes - suggested fifth.
- Allah created the desert and the caravan, - said the sixth.
- I have I, - said the seventh disciple, and what's the camel?!

- How do I change from ass Ego to the stallion of Spirituality? - student asked Khoja Nasreddin.
- For this you need to cross the desert on a camel-denial, Humility, replied the sage.

- What to do with the offense? asked the disciples of Hodja Nasreddin.
- The offense is Small Medium and Large, as well as Acute and Chronic, explained sage. - All these grievances is the essence of the variety of the disease and require each of its treatment.
Small Sharp Hurt like the bite of a horsefly - its best not to notice, just as the elephant does not pay attention to the cries of the monkeys.
The average Acute Resentment can cause a person to falter; it is similar to lynx, jumping from tree to the back of the deer. This Offense should turn face and defeat her in an open battle with the weapons of Wisdom and self-denial, repressing it, just as the rider tames the skittish horse.
A large Acute Insult like an arrow, striking the warrior and for a time plunging him into unconsciousness. Such people need help and compassion, and sometimes strong bonds like mad from pain to bear.
Small Chronic Resentment like a festering scratch constantly, about which people may forget, even though it poisons like a rotten water from the swamp. This Resentment is important to find its Root, then it turns into Sharp, and then disappears.
Average Chronic Resentment like that of a poisonous snake, rolled up in a nest in a person's heart and poisoning his poison his whole soul. However, a person unwittingly attached to this snake, especially as it is amenable to training. It is impossible to expel, or as agreeing with her on good terms and put in its place a solid Virtue.
Most Chronic Resentment absorbs the whole person, just as a boa constrictor swallows a sheep and slowly digests. The only way out here - a complete transformation, like the transformation of a chrysalis into a butterfly.

Hodja Nasreddin came weary dear dervish, and said:
O master! I've been walking the path of Love, but it was not the Truth. Then I began to seek the Truth, and found her, but found her Love!
- Two times you went one way, ' said Hodge, just looking in different directions.

- Here to you are people with questions, doubts, - said Nasreddin skeptic and you answer them. Not if it's a sin of arrogance?
I'm afraid I can't answer that, ' said Hodge.

- You live in my house, ' said neighbor Khodja Nasreddin, - riding on a donkey to the Bazaar and talk with the students at the teahouse. But do you have this?
- Freedom of the faithful in the Koran, ' replied the sage. - Freedom wind - in space. Freedom eagle - wings. The freedom of the prisoner in chains and the bars.
The only difference in the comfort level.

- Why monk poverty? asked the disciples of Hodja Nasreddin.
- For the same reason, baby diaper, - said Hodge. - When the main rules of spiritual hygiene is mastered, don't hesitate to wear panties and dresses.

- What is the Truth? asked the disciples of Hodja Nasreddin.
- What prevents the sky to fall to the ground, shrugging his shoulders, replied the sage.

- It Luke - boom - said the teacher. - Speech of the flute - music. But what is human speech?
Silence was his answer.

- What is religion? asked the disciples of Hodja Nasreddin.
Trying to asphalt the Road of Life, - answered Nasreddin.

Khoja Nasreddin asked:
- Is it necessary to develop flexibility of the body?
- If one foot are on life's journey, and the other spiritual, will quickly sit in the splits, replied the sage.

One day the neighbor went to Hodja Nasreddin upset.
- I think I had an inferiority complex, - he said grimly.
Nothing terrible: just a boa thy Conceit tangled up in your own loops, - comforted him Hodge.

The swamp of my Idleness framed water lilies Small Virtues.