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Hakuin

Is That So?

Zen Story, Paul Reps: THE ZEN MASTER Hakuin was praised by his neighbors as one living a pure life. A beautiful Japanese girl whose parents owned a...

Rumi

The Parrot and the Grocer

Sufi Story, The Book of Rumi: There was once a grocer who owned a handsome green parrot who sang sublimely and spoke most eloquently. The parrot was...

upanishads

The City of Brahman

A Passage From The Upanishads, Eknath Easwaran: In the city of Brahman is a secret dwelling, the lotus of the heart. Within this dwelling is a space...

Computer Simulation as Reality

Is THIS like a computer simulation?

Reflections: As I see it, less computer language and more of Hindu, Tibetan, and Taoist notions, there is a weaving going on in this immense web of...

old-tree-silhouette

No Loving-Kindness

Zen Story, Paul Reps: THERE WAS an old woman in China who had supported a monk for over twenty years. She had built a little hut for him and fed him...

Sufi dancing

The Deaf Man and His Sick Neighbor

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...

summer-ocean

MAN IS BORN IN TAO

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...

On the beach - hammock

I AM AWAKE

Buddhism, Excerpt From The World’s Religions, Huston Smith: Buddhism begins with a man. In his later years, when India was afire with his...

The moon

The Moon Cannot Be Stolen

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...

muddy-road

Muddy Road

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...

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