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life of man is nothing at all. The matter is this: it doesn't matter at all." "The life of man is nothing at all... man's life is not life. Life belongs to the whole. "The matter is this: it doesn't matter at all"... man is just meaningless.
Yesterday, Mulla Nasruddin's falling off the bed -- just meaningless. He was making space for a child that doesn't exist when he fell and broke his leg.
There was a case in court in which two men had been fighting. The judge asked what happened. Both of them hesitated. They said, "What can we say? If we say what happened we will be very embarrassed. You give whatever punishment is needed."
He said, "I still want to know what happened. Who should I punish?"
They looked at each other saying, "You tell him." When the judge started getting angry, and said, "Are you going to tell me or not?" they were forced to speak, and they said, "This is the situation: we are friends, and we were sitting in the sand on the river bank. This friend said he was going to buy a buffalo. I said, 'Don't buy a buffalo because I am buying a field, and if your buffalo comes into my field then our life-long friendship will be spoiled.'
"He said, 'Get lost! Because you are buying a field I shouldn't buy a buffalo? Don't buy a field then! And a buffalo is a buffalo -- if it gets in it gets in. I'm not going to spend my whole day chasing after him. And what is the value of this friendship? -- that just because my buffalo enters your field you make such a fuss about it?'
"I too mounted my throne and said, 'Good, I will show you my field, show me the buffalo you bought.' Then with a stick I drew a field in the sand -- and this idiot made his stick drawing of a buffalo enter! We quarreled, we came to blows. What can we say to you? Give us the punishment. We are embarrassed to say anything more."
"The life of man is nothing at all. The matter is this: it's no matter at all. You have given man everything such that man's person is nothing at all. Except this joy of heart and liver the messengers of pleasure are nothing at all. The /kaynat of beauty is everything, the /kaynat of love is nothing at all. Man changes
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