Two disciples came to a master; they wanted to attain to truth. The master gave each of them a dove and told them ‘Go to a place where nobody is witnessing you and kill the dove.’ The first one went just outside the house. There was nobody – it was a hot afternoon and nobody…
Three friends were walking along a road. Evening was just falling and the sun was setting when they become aware of a monk standing on a nearby hill. They started talking about the monk, wondering what he was doing there. One of them said, ‘He must be waiting for his friends. He must have gone…
A small boy, just ten or twelve years of age, lived in a Zen monastery. Every day he would see many seekers coming to the master to ask for help, methods, techniques, guidance. He also became attracted, so one day he also came in the morning in the same way a seeker comes to a…
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As soon as I sat in meditation I met my spirit guide Chien. “Come on, let’s go,” he said as if I’d arrived just in time.
“Where are we going?” I asked.
“On an adventure” he called over his shoulder as he shot off into the blackness. “Follow me.”
So I did. I launched myself in the blackness…
Walking home one wonderful morning, Nasrudin thought that it would be a good idea to take a short cut through the woods. Why, he asked himself, should I plod along a dusty road when I could be communing with Nature, listening to the birds and looking at the flowers? This is inded a day of days; a day for fortunate pursuits!
So saying, he launched himself into the greenery. He had not gone very far, however, when…
In the kite flying season of the year, there was a kite that flew very very high, all the way to the end of its thread. The kite noticed off in th distance that an eagle was flying even higher, and more freely without the thread tying it down.
This gave the kite the idea that if he were…
Lame Elk, who had just passed his 14th year, had taken on the family responsibility of his father, Standing Elk. His father and mother had both been killed several months before in an attack on the village by a nomadic hostile tribe. He was fulfilling all his father’s and mother’s duties of providing food, shelter and nurturing for his younger brother and two younger sisters.
He was proud of himself, even though it was harder to do than he let on…
A lover knocked at the door of his beloved.
Who is it? she replied.
The lover replied, It is I.
Go away….
A monk was meditating in the desert when a beggar came up to him and said:
I need to eat.
The monk — who was almost reaching the point of perfect harmony with the spiritual world — did not answer.
I need to eat, insisted the beggar.
Go to the town and ask someone else. Can’t you see that you are bothering me? I am trying to…
