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LAUGHTER A GREAT MEDICINE
 Laughter needs a great learning, and laughter is a great medicine. It can cure many of your tensions, anxieties, worries; the whole energy can flow into laughter. And there is no need that there should be some occasion, some cause.
Beyond Enlightenment
Chapter – 27
Title - Whatsoever happens in silence is your friend
Question – 6
1. One doctor came to Mulla Nasruddin and said, "You have not paid me. I visited eight times to cure your child of smallpox; you have neither paid for my eight visits nor have you paid for my medicines. And you have some nerve, you go on in front of my medical clinic as if you own it."
Nasruddin said, "You should remember who started the epidemic -- it was my child. You should pay me! Who made the whole school sick? In fact I own your medical clinic. My boy has done so much for you, and not even gratitude .... you should pay me, and remember that!"
2. It happened one day...
Mulla Nasruddin was sitting in his office waiting for some customers. A man came in, and Mulla Nasruddin started talking to him about the things he was selling. He did not give the man a chance to say anything. He just waved his hand telling him to sit down, picked up the telephone and started talking about millions.
"Yes, take it. One million dollars, that's okay."
At that moment the man could not resist the temptation. He said, "Wait a minute. I have come from the telephone company to connect the telephone."
3. One day one of Mulla Nasruddin's friends asked him if he could borrow his donkey to carry some vegetables to the market. "No," said Mulla Nasruddin, "that's not possible, because my donkey is not here, and what's more, he is sick." At that moment, his donkey appeared from around the corner calling, "Heehaw, heehaw."
"You said your donkey is not here, and that he is sick," accused Mulla Nasruddin's friend, "and here he is and yelling `heehaw, heehaw,' as well as can be."
"Who do you believe, "asked Mulla Nasruddin, "my donkey or me?"
4. I have heard a famous anecdote about Mulla Nasruddin. In his village he was the only man who could write, so people used to come if they wanted to write a letter or some document, or anything. He was the only man who could write. One day a man came. Nasruddin wrote the letter, whatsoever the man dictated -- and it was a long letter -- and the man said, "Please, now read it, because I want to be sure that everything has been written and I have not forgotten anything, and you have not messed up anything."
Mulla said, "Now, this is difficult. I know how to write but I don't know how to read. And moreover, the letter is not addressed to me so it will be illegal to read it too."
And the villager was convinced, the idea was perfectly right, and the villager said, "Right you are -- it is not addressed to you."
5. Once I heard that Mulla Nasruddin had become a communist. I know him... I was a little puzzled. This was a miracle! I know his possessiveness. So I asked him, "Mulla, do you know what communism means?"
He said, "I know."
I said, "Do you know that if you have two cars and somebody hasn't a car, you will have to give one car?"
He said, "I am perfectly willing to give."
I said, "If you have two houses and somebody is without a house you will have to give one house?"
He said, "I am perfectly ready, right now."
And I said, "If you have two donkeys you will have to give one donkey to somebody else who has not?"
He said, "There I disagree. I cannot give, I cannot do that!"
But I said, "Why? -- because it is the same logic, the same corollary."
He said, "No, it is not the same -- I have two donkeys, I don't have two cars."
6. One day Mulla Nasruddin went to his doctor. Coughing, he entered. The doctor said, "It sounds better."
Nasruddin said, "Of course, it has to sound better -- because I practiced it the whole night."
7. Mulla Nasruddin had arranged for his wife to go to the mountains for her asthma. But his wife was not willing, she refused. She said, "I am afraid that the mountain air is going to disagree with me."
Mulla Nasruddin said, "My dear, don't you be worried. There is no mountain air so brave as to disagree with you! Don't be worried."
8. Mulla Nasruddin went for his first airplane flight. When he came back he was looking very tired -- and just a fifteen-minute flight from Bombay to Poona -- he was trembling, his face was looking so pale.
I asked, "What is the matter?"
He said, "What is the matter! Those two plane flights!"
I said, "What two plane flights? You have been only on one plane flight."
He said, "Two -- my first and my last! I am finished with this nonsense! I was so afraid, I had to sit just on the edge of the chair."
"But why on the edge?" I asked him.
He said, "So that my whole weight was not on the plane, that's why."
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