Meditation

  • Wanting God

    A hermit was meditating by a river when a young man interrupted him. “Master, I wish to become your disciple,” said the man. “Why?” replied the hermit. The young man thought for a moment. “Because I want to find God.”

    The master jumped up, grabbed him by the scruff of his neck, dragged him into the river, and plunged his head under water…

  • The Most Important Teaching

    A renowned Zen master said that his greatest teaching was this: Buddha is your own mind. So impressed by how profound this idea was, one monk decided to leave the monastery and retreat to the wilderness to meditate on this insight.

    There he spent 20 years as a hermit probing the great teaching…