This community is remarkable at finding the answers to off-the-wall questions. So, here goes.
About ten years ago, I took a class in storytelling. The instructors started off with a story that I thought was great, vowed to remember it, and have now forgotten it. Here's what I remember of it:
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A respected teached lies dying, surrounded by his students. They ask him to tell them about his teacher. He tells them that he had three teachers.
He tells of arriving at the city gates in the wee hours of the morning, penniless. He is taken in tow by (the equivalent of) a garbageman/dustman who takes care of him, helps him get on his feet, etc. "From him, I learned ?????"
(I don't remember the second teacher at all.)
The third was when he was an established, respected scholar. He runs across a little girl at dusk. He lights a candle and then blows it out, asking the girl, "Where did the light go?" I think she responds with something like, "The real question is, where did it come from?" And from her, he learned ?????
At that point, the teacher expires, and his students are overcome with grief and tears. But some, some, of the students look up and, through the tears, see a room full of teachers.
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The story had a vaguely Middle Eastern flavor to it, or maybe Indian or Persian. Does it ring a bell with anyone?
Does anyone know who the three teachers were? And what the lessons were? Or where I can find the story itself?
One lesson I've learned is that Friday evening is the worst time to post a question, especially like this because I rarely get answers before Monday, and by then, it has slipped off the front page! Nevertheless, with my memory going, I had to post now before I forget to do so :)
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