for the would be spiritual poets

[Guest guest]

One night the poet Awhadi of Kerman, a very great muslim poet..

 

was sitting on his porch bent over a vessel.

 

Shams-e-Tabrizi...a great Sufi mystic..happened to pass by.

 

Shams-e-Tabrizi looked at the poet..at what he was doing.

 

he asked the poet: " what are you doing? "

 

the poet said:

 

" contemplating the moon in a bowl of water. "

 

Shams-e-Tabrizi started laughing with an uproarious laughter..

 

...a mad laughter.

 

the poet started feeling uncomfortable.

 

a crowd gathered.

 

and the poet said:

 

" what is the matter?..

 

why are you laughing so much?..

 

why are you ridiculing me? "

 

Shams-e-Tabrizi said:

 

" unless you have broken your neck..

 

why don't you look directly at the moon in the sky? "

 

LOL!