Just for fun!
A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird’s mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity. John tried and tried to change the bird’s attitude by consistently saying only polite words, playing soft music […]
a mini Zen story…
An old Zen master always told this parable to “unserious” students: Late one night a blind man was about to go home after visiting a friend. “Please,” he said to his friend, “may I take your lantern with me?” “Why carry a lantern?” asked his friend. “You won’t see any better with it.” “No,” said […]
Where does the darkness go?
We celebrate this coming Friday as the Winter Solstice, the turning point in our calendar as the daylight begins to increase each day. The solstice has the shortest period of daylight and also the longest night of the year. Yet, the light begins, ever so slowly, to return. The light and the dark move to […]
Your Golden Buddha
I’ve always thought it was a beautiful parable about the fact that we’re all already perfect and that all we have to do is chip away at the plaster that’s gotten in the way. But get this: The Golden Buddha is actually REAL! (Don’t you love it when you can combine historical reality with metaphorical […]
In a fog?
When we feel muddied and unfocused, unsure of which way to turn, we say we are in a fog. Like being in a fog in nature, we may feel like we can’t see where we’re going or where we’ve come from. And we’re afraid if we move too quickly we might run into something hidden […]