The Mullahs Arms.

Mullah Nasrudin began a long journey armed with a saber and a spear. Along the way, a bandit armed with nothing more than a cane jumped him and took his belongings from him. When he arrived at the next city, he told his friends of his misfortune, and they asked him how it was possible that he, armed with a saber and a spear, could be overcome by a thief bearing nothing more than a cane…..

Mullah Nasrudin began a long journey armed with a saber and a spear. Along the way, a bandit armed with nothing more than a cane jumped him and took his belongings from him. When he arrived at the next city, he told his friends of his misfortune, and they asked him how it was possible that he, armed with a saber and a spear, could be overcome by a thief bearing nothing more than a cane.

Nasrudin explained: “That was the problem; I had my hands full with the saber and the spear. How could I have gotten out of that mess triumphantly?”

Now see how this story is worked out by the following

The Grammarian.

Mullah Nasrudin is a boatman. One day, he’s transporting a grammarian in his boat. Along the way the latter asks him: “Do you know grammar?”

Not at all, replies Mullah.

Well, allow me to tell you that you’ve lost half your life! disdainfully replies the scholar.

A little later, the wind begins to blow and the boat is swallowed by waves. As the boat is about to sink, Mullah asks his passenger: Do you know how to swim?

No! answers the grammarian, terrified.

Well, allow me to tell you that you’ve lost all your life!

Both these stories tell us , using humour, that knowledge is useless unless we can apply it, and when we apply it it has to be to reality.
           
An example of this may be those that know the kama sutra off by heart or have an endless nowledge of graphic pornography but are incapable of having a loving relationship or giving real sexual satisfaction.

 So I ask you What do you know? What techncal knowledge do you possess, what artisitc skills? Could you communicate them to another? Do you need instruction?

…being taught is important, but we need to ask ourselves the point of the acquired knowledge and know how to get rid of the useless.
I feel that a better purpose is to use knowledge to develop personal skills that I can percieve and understand in depth and apply to reality, instead of collecting thousands of facts and figures that I’ll never apply to anything.

What good are all those theories , what good is any wisdom, if I never apply them? It’s like hiding behind this knowledge, but doing nothing.

There is the story of the man who walk by the road came upon a stone on the top of this stone was written turn me over and find true knowledge, under the stone the man found written, why do you seek to know more when you have not used or understood what you already know!

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