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HUMAN NATURE
Human beings react, not to reality, but to ideas in their heads...
A group of tourists, stranded somewhere in the countryside, were given old rations
to eat. Before eating the food they tested it by throwing some of it to a dog who
seemed to enjoy it and suffered no after effects.
The following day they learnt that the dog had died. Everyone was panic-stricken.
Many began to vomit and complained of fever and dysentery. A doctor was called in
to treat the victims for food poisonin
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Pestilence was on its way to Damascus and sped by a chief’s caravan in the desert.
“Where are you speeding to?” asked the chief.
“To Damascus. I mean to take a thousand lives.”
On its way back from Damascus, Pestilence passed by the caravan again. The chief
said, “It was 50,000 lives that you took, not a 1,000.”
“No,” said the Pestilence. “I took a thousand. It was Fear that took the rest.”
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When Buddha first embarked upon his spiritual quest he practised many austerities.
One day two musicians happened to pass by the tree under which he was sitting in
meditation. One was saying to the other, “Do not tighten the strings of your sitar
too much or they will snap. Do not keep them too loose either or they will produce
no music. Keep to the middle path.”
Those words hit Buddha with such force that they revolutionized his whole approach
to spirituality. He was convinced they had been sai
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A man and his wife went to visit friends in another part of the country and were
taken to a racecourse. Fascinated by the sight of horses chasing one another round
a track, the two of them kept betting all evening till they had no more than two
dollars left.
The following day the man prevailed upon his wife to let him go to the course
alone. There was a horse with a fifty-to-one odds on it in the first race. He bet
on the horse and it won. He put all the money he won on another long shot in the
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A Quaker had this sign put up on a vacant piece of land next to his home: THIS
LAND WILL BE GIVEN TO ANYONE WHO IS TRULY SATISFIED.
A wealthy farmer who was riding by stopped to read the sign and said to himself,
“Since our friend the Quaker is so ready to part with this plot I might as well
claim it before someone else does, I am a rich man and have all I need, so I
certainly qualify.”
With that he went up to the door and explained what he was there for. “And is thee
truly satisfied?” the Quake
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There was an old Zen Master called Nonoko who lived alone in a hut at the foot of
a mountain. One night while Nonoko was sitting in meditation a stranger broke into
the hut and, brandishing a sword, demanded Nonoko’s money. Nonoko did not
interrupt his meditation while he addressed the man: “All my money is in a bowl on
the shelf up there. Take all you need, but leave me five yen. I have to pay my
taxes, next week.”
The stranger emptied the bowl of all the money it held and threw five yen back
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A priest walked into a pub indignant to find so many of his parishioners there. He
rounded them up and shepherded them into the church.
Then he solemnly said. “All those who want to go to heaven, step over here to the
left.” Everyone stepped over except one man who stubbornly stood his ground.
The priest looked at him fiercely and said. “Don’t you want to go to heaven?”
“No.” said the man.
“Do you mean to stand there and tell me you don’t want to go to heaven when you die?”
“Of course I want to
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