· The Lost Key · A Story of Mulla Nasrudin ·

«A man is walking home late one night when he sees an anxious Mulla Nasrudin down on all fours, crawling on his hands and knees on the road, searching frantically under a street light for something on the ground.

“Mulla, what have you lost?”, the passer-by asks.

“I am searching for the key to my house”, Nasrudin says worriedly.

"I'll help you search for your key", the man says and joins Mulla Nasrudin in the search.

Soon both men are down on their knees under the streetlight, looking for the lost key.

After some time, the man asks Nasrudin, 
“Tell me Mulla, do you remember where exactly did you drop the key?”

Nasrudin waves his arm back toward the darkness and says, 
“Over there, in my house. I lost the key inside my house…”

Shocked and exasperated, the passer-by jumps up and shouts at Mulla Nasrudin, 
“Then why are you searching for the key out here in the street?”

“Because there is more light here than inside my house”,

Mulla Nasrudin answers nonchalantly.»

If someone offers you a gift, and you do not accept the gift...to whom does the gift belong?

"It is said that one day Buddha was walking through a village. 
A very angry and rude young man came up and began insulting him. 
-You have no right teaching others!!! -, he shouted. 
-You are as stupid as everyone else. You are nothing but a fake.-

Buddha was not upset by these insults. He just smiled.
The man insulted him again and again but the only reactión he could get back from the Buddha was smile and silence.
Finaly he stomped his feet and left cursing.

The disciples were feeling angry and one of the them couldn't keep quiet and asked the Buddha:
-Why didn't you reply to the rude man?-

The Buddha replied:
-If someone offers you a gift, and you do not accept the gift...to whom does the gift belong?-
-Of couse to the person who brought the gift- replied the disciple.

The Buddha smiled and said:
-That is correct..."