Some spiritual stories stay with us because they answer a question we have quietly carried for years. Others stay because they disturb us in the right way. Osho’s “The Brightest Spiritual Star” story does both. It begins as a conversation about which figures shine most brightly in the vast sky of Indian spirituality… and then…
I have heard: A king went into his garden and found wilted and dying trees, shrubs and flowers. The oak said it was dying because it could not be tall like the pine. Turning to the pine, he found it drooping because it was unable to bear grapes like the vine. And the vine was…
A Zen Master was asked by the Emperor of Japan…. The Emperor had come and asked the same question, Krishna Deva. Maybe you are the reincarnation of the same Emperor! Because the Japanese tend to be reborn in India — this is the land of their Master, Buddha. Every Japanese keeps the desire to come…
God is there but you cannot see because your eyes are blinded by the concepts given to you. God is not a Jew, so if you have a Jewish idea of God you will not find him. I have heard a beautiful story about a Sufi mystic, Farid: One night he dreams that by the…
A Golden Half Calf – By Rabbi Allen S. Maller Everyone was worried that something bad happened to Moses. He had gone up on Mount Sinai more than three weeks ago. He had not yet returned. Each day when Prophet Moses didn’t return more people worried and got more upset. Aaron and Miriam urged people…
A rich father-in-law gave his poor son-in-law three lacs rupees to start a business. The business flourished but it brought a flood of greed in the heart of son-in-law. Now he thought my father-in-law has a hell lot of money he should not bother for three lacs. The father-in-law waited patiently for one year to…
A philosopher, a scientist and a simple man – none of whom could swim – were trapped in a cove with sheer cliff faces. They split up, but the tide kept coming in. Rescuers lowered a rope with a safety harness.
The philosopher said…
A couple that had been married for 15 years began having more than usual disagreements…
They wanted to make their marriage work and agreed on an idea the wife had. For one month they planned to drop a slip in a Fault box. The boxes would provide a place to let the other know about daily irritations…
There was once a spider who lived in a cornfield. He was a big spider and he had spun a beautiful web between the corn stalks. He got fat eating all the bugs that would get caught in his web. He liked his home and planned to stay there for the rest of his life.
One day the spider caught a little bug in his web…
One day a passerby saw a homeless man on the roadside. He stopped for a moment to hand him some loose change and casually said God bless you, my friend.
I thank God, said the homeless man, I am never unhappy.
What do you mean? the passerby asked.
