Author Archives: Zareen

So. Mulla Nasrudine was sitting and playing cards with his dog in the park. A guy comes walking along and he watches him play. After a while he exclains, “Mulla! Your dog is so smart. He’s actually playing cards with you. I have never seen such a smart dog. Where did you get him? How …

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Stories about Mulla Nasrudine are to make you go beyond your logical brain, where everything tries to make sense, and put that little “stop” to it… where you can see nothing.

So Mulla Nasrudine was boarding the train, getting ready to go on a trip. He jumps on and meets the ticket taker who says. “Mulla. I need your ticket.”  Mulla starts looking everywhere. He looks in his hands. He looks in his pant pockets. It’s not there. He throws down his bags, and rips open …

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This is such a telling tale about how most of us conduct our spiritual searches. We are searching everywhere except for the place of “I am.” Muella’s ticket is one of my favorite Mulla Nasrudine stories because it is such a telling tale about the way most of us conduct our spiritual searches. We are …

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Can the person who is too stupid to tell us to go to the doctor able to tell us to go to the doctor? Again a story of going in two directions at the same time. 

Mulla Nasrudine stories, and Zen stories, are such great enlightenment teachings because they are trying to point out the blindingly obvious. We believe enlightenment is this mysterious, magical thing. What if it was something very very simple?