tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1185588549702121322011-07-07T13:10:25.789-07:00Noranoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118558854970212132.post-78579038113393283652009-09-22T07:51:00.000-07:002009-09-22T08:54:40.902-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cMbtdfLVmwI/SrjzLFo7CGI/AAAAAAAAAIM/jTnzkPVrXBg/s1600-h/vajra_kilaya_phurba_kkt.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 234px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cMbtdfLVmwI/SrjzLFo7CGI/AAAAAAAAAIM/jTnzkPVrXBg/s320/vajra_kilaya_phurba_kkt.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384320726339356770" /></a><br />This is a story that Idries Shah collected among sufi stories. I believe the story is about social selves and just being hungry, or just walking somewhere or just being around. But I am not sure.<br /><br />Once upon a time there was a fox who meet a young rabbit in the woods. The rabbit said: "What are you? "The fox said “I am a fox and I could eat you up if I wanted to. <p class="MsoNormal">“How can you prove that you are a fox?” asked the rabbit. The fox didn’t know what to say because in the past rabbits had always run from him without such enquiries</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Then the rabbit said “ If you can show me the written proof that you are a fox I will believe you”.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">So the fox trotted out to the lion, who gave him a certificate that he was a fox. When he got back where the rabbit was waiting the fox start to read out the document. It so please him that he dwelt over the paragraphs with lingering delight.<span style=""> </span>Meanwhile. Getting the gist of the message from the first few lines, the rabbit run down a burrow and was never seen again.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The fox went back to the lion’s den , where he saw a deer talking to the lion. The deer was saying: “ I want to see a written proof that you are a lion.” The lion said “When I am not hungry I do not need to bother. When I am hungry , you don’t anything in writing”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The fox said to the lion” Why didn’t you tell me to do that when<span style=""> </span>I asked for the certificate for the rabbit?”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">“My dear friend, sid the lion, “ you shou;d have said that it was requested by a rabbit. I though it must be for a stupid human being, from whom some of these idiotic anuimals have learned this pastime”<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <!--EndFragment--><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/118558854970212132-7857903811339328365?l=pinknagual.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Noranoreply@blogger.com0