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A Story From The Book Of Rumi: A man had been losing his hearing for some time but was too proud to admit his debility and continued to pretend that nothing was wrong with him. One day, a friend bumped into him outside his home and told him that the...
The Way of Chuang Tzu, Thomas Merton: Fishes are born in water Man is born in Tao. If fishes, born in water, Seek the deep shadow Of pond and pool, All their needs Are satisfied. If man, born in Tao, Sinks into the deep shadow Of non-action To...
Buddhism, Excerpt From The World’s Religions, Huston Smith: Buddhism begins with a man. In his later years, when India was afire with his message and kings themselves were bowing before him, people came to him even as they were to come to...
Excerpts from the book by Smith, Huston. The World’s Religions, Revised and Updated (PP. 234-242). HarperOne. Kindle-Version. Covered here in 05:40 minutes: The three schools of Taoism, efficient power (philosophical), augmented...
Excerpts from the book by Smith, Huston. The World’s Religions, Revised and Updated (P. 232). HarperOne. Kindle-Version. Covered here in short 3 minutes: Tao can mean the way of ultimate reality, the way of the universe, and the way of...
Zen Story, Paul Reps: RYOKAN, a Zen master, lived the simplest kind of life in a little hut at the foot of a mountain. One evening a thief visited the hut only to discover there was nothing in it to steal. Ryokan returned and caught him. “You may...
Zen Story, Paul Reps: TANZAN AND EKIDO were once traveling together down a muddy road. A heavy rain was still falling. Coming around a bend, they met a lovely girl in a silk kimono and sash, unable to cross the intersection. “Come on, girl,” said...
Hinduism, Excerpt from The World’s Religions, Huston Smith: Our word “personality” comes from the Latin persona, which originally referred to the mask an actor donned as he stepped onto the stage to play his role, the mask through (per) which...
Ramakrishna, Hinduism, Philip Novak: You may ask: “How, then, can we arrive at any explanation of naturally caused misery, human viciousness, pervasive unhappiness?” The answer is that these forms of suffering, which one sincerely struggles to...
Mundaka Upanishad, Hinduism, Philip Novak: There are two birds, two sweet friends, who dwell on the self-same tree. The one eats the fruits thereof, and the other looks on in silence. The first is the human soul who, resting on that tree, though...