Cause and Effect

There is a Mulla Nasrudin story that goes something like this:

Mulla Nasrudin was walking along an alleyway one day when a man feel from a roof and landed on top of him.  The other man was unhurt but the Mulla was taken to hospital.
“What teaching do you infer from this event, Master?” one of his disciples asked him.
“Avoid belief in inevitability, even if cause and effect seem inevitable!” said Nasrudin
“Shun theoretical questions like: ‘If a man falls off a roof, will his neck be broken?’ He fell but my neck is broken!”

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