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: Nasreddin picked up a bunch of grapes and gave each child a grape.
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Unperturbed, Nasreddin picked up the turban and put it back on his head.
Again, Nasreddin just picked it up, put it back on and resumed whatever conversation he was having.
Nasreddin and up
: The next day, an invading army occupied the city and Nasreddin did not turn up for coffee as usual.
Every few steps Nasreddin would stop and shake his hands in the air, touch his feet and jump up yelling " Hu Hu Hu !".
Nasreddin and grapes
: Some children saw Nasreddin coming from the vineyard with two basketfuls of grapes loaded on his donkey.
Nasreddin and each
Erickson's metaphorical strategies can be compared with the teaching tales of the Sufis ( those of for example the Nasreddin ) and the Zen tradition of Koans, each also designed to act on the unconscious mind.
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A 17th century miniature of Nasreddin, currently in the Topkapi Palace Museum Library.
Nasreddin ( / ALA-LC: Naṣraddīn Juḥā, Turkish: Nasreddin Hoca,,, Nasreddīn Hodja Bosnian: Nasrudin Hodža ) was a Seljuq satirical Sufi figure, sometimes believed to have lived during the Middle Ages ( around 13th century ) and considered a populist philosopher and wise man, remembered for his funny stories and anecdotes.
A Nasreddin story usually has a subtle humour and a pedagogic nature.
The International Nasreddin Hodja fest is celebrated between 5 – 10 July in Aksehir, Turkey every year.
Many sources give the birthplace of Nasreddin as Hortu Village in Sivrihisar, Eskişehir Province, present-day Turkey, in the 13th century, after which he settled in Akşehir, and later in Konya under the Seljuq rule, where he died in 1275 / 6 or 1285 / 6 CE.
The alleged tomb of Nasreddin is in Akşehir and the " International Nasreddin Hodja Festival " is held annually in Akşehir between 5 – 10 July.
As generations have gone by, new stories have been added to the Nasreddin corpus, others have been modified, and he and his tales have spread to many regions.
Although most of them depict Nasreddin in an early small-village setting, the tales, like Aesop's fables, deal with concepts that have a certain timelessness.
The oldest manuscript of Nasreddin dates to 1571.
Today, Nasreddin stories are told in a wide variety of regions, especially across the Muslim world and have been translated into many languages.
Some regions independently developed a character similar to Nasreddin, and the stories have become part of a larger whole.
In many regions, Nasreddin is a major part of the culture, and is quoted or alluded to frequently in daily life.
Since there are thousands of different Nasreddin stories, one can be found to fit almost any occasion.
Nasreddin often appears as a whimsical character of a large Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Italian, Judeo-Spanish, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Turkish and Urdu folk tradition of vignettes, not entirely different from zen koans.
1996 – 1997 was declared International Nasreddin Year by UNESCO.
Many peoples of the Near, Middle East and Central Asia claim Nasreddin as their own ( e. g., Turks, Afghans, Iranians, and Uzbeks ).
In the Swahili and Indonesian culture many of his stories are being told under the name of " Abunuwasi " or " Abunawas ", though this confuses Nasreddin with an entirely different man – the poet Abu Nuwas, known for homoerotic verse.
Shanghai Animation Film Studio produced a 13-episode Nasreddin related animation called ' The Story of Afanti '/ 阿凡提 ( 电影 ) in 1979, which became one of the most influential animations in China's history.
The Nasreddin stories are known throughout the Middle East and have touched cultures around the world.
Superficially, most of the Nasreddin stories may be told as jokes or humorous anecdotes.
But it is inherent in a Nasreddin story that it may be understood at many levels.
: Once Nasreddin was invited to deliver a sermon.
So Nasreddin said Let the half who know what I am going to say, tell it to the half who don't, and left.
picked and up
He cleaned his shovel, left it against the fence, picked up his Winchester, and started downstream.
He picked her up, sliding one hand under her shoulders, the other under her knees, and carried her into the house.
He picked up the powder canister and ran out.
She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.
Curt moved in and picked up his gun.
He stooped, picked up his ruined hat, and pursed his lips thoughtfully.
Artie had picked up a snorkle and was twirling it on his forefinger.
Charles said as they picked their way over the rocky road which led up the hill away from the Dixie Highway, through a corn field and a patch of woods to the school.
They had located the runway of a colony of ants and as the ants came out of the ground, the boys picked them up, one at a time, and pinched them dead.
What obsessions had she picked up during these long nights of talk??
From his playmates in Savannah, Mercer had picked up, along with a soft Southern dialect, traces also of the Gullah dialects of Africa.
He would ship by rail five pounds per day per animal and the other fifteen pounds that were needed could be picked up off the country.
She had been picked up by the Russians, questioned in connection with some pamphlets, sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage.
She escaped, crawled through the usual mine fields, under barbed wire, was shot at, swam a river, and we finally picked her up in Linz.
Both Willy Brandt's Social Democrats, who gained 22 seats in the new parliament, and the Free Democrats, who picked up 23, will insist on that before they enter the government.
To avoid suspicion of bigotry, let the hand of vengeance be stayed until the meat-wagon has picked up the twenty-five thousandth corpse ; ;
His stethoscope was on the table by Scotty's bed and he picked it up and wagged it at Scotty.
She smoothed the covers on Scotty's bed and picked things up from the floor.
`` She didn't really say '' -- She glanced away at the floor, then swooped gracefully and picked up one of Scotty's slippers.
When he had stored his stock in the great oak chest, locked the two big hasps and secured the additional chain, tied the fly of the tent, and picked up the cash box, he moved up the darkening street.
Martha picked up the hem of her gown and with eyes closed she slowly began to dance a stately minuet around the ballroom.
He picked up the photograph and began to wrap it.
I look like an old man, compared '', and he had picked up his photograph with the red Christmas bow still on it.
Photograph shows the wrong side of work with light strand being picked up under dark strand in position to be purled.
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