The visitor said, "A barking dog does not bite." Now this guru had the reputation of being able to tame tigers with a glance, but he obviously had no such way with dogs, and he called out to my friend to do something. When they were walking on the grounds of the presidential place, a large and fierce-looking dog tore the loincloth off a Hindu guru who was also present and, barking loudly, cornered him by a wall.
"She believes that you can wear a size six shoe on a size nine foot."Ī friend of mine once went to see the chief of state of a certain country. "And what DOES she believe in?" asks the other. One woman says to another, "Poor Maisie really has suffered for what she believes in." But if it were a teaching session, your task might be to identify yourself in every story, to acknowledge that you too could be as foolish or as lacking in discernment as the characters in these.
If you wish, for example, you can imagine that these stories. 162) " This next session can be enjoyed without concern about its deeper meanings. Robert Frager says, in Essential Sufism, about such stories and jokes (p.
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