It is a year dear one, since you afar
Went out beyond my yearning mortal sight
Month: February 2018
ZEN PARABLES: “DESIRES”
An emperor was coming out of his palace for his morning walk when he met a beggar.
SPIRITUAL ZEN DROPS TO QUENCH YOUR THIRST: Wisdom Quotes from Alan Watts
If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.
Ancient Indian legend: “The rice and the chessboard story”(learning about mathematics)
The story goes that the ruler or India was so pleased with one of his palace wise men, who had invented the game of chess,
POEMS: “Life’s Harmonies” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
And only the heart that has harbored trouble,
Can fully rejoice when joy is sent.
ZEN STORIES: “A Letter to a Dying Man”
Bassui wrote the following letter to one of his disciples who was about to die:
Legends from the Philippines: “The story of the fruits named Lansones” (or lanzones)
Lansones actually derives from the word lason, which is Tagalog for “poison.”
NATURE POEMS: “The Bluebird” by Emily Dickinson
Before you thought of spring,
Except as a surmise,
INSPIRATIONAL STORIES: “The Vision of a Prayer”
A Christian monk earnestly prayed that a vision…
ESKIMO POEMS: “Untitled Shaman Song “
The great sea
frees me, moves me,
POEMS: “The Garden by Moonlight” by Amy Lowell
A black cat among roses, Phlox, lilac-misted under a first-quarter moon,
The sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock.
The garden is very still,
Vietnamese legends: “The legend of the rice grains”
Once upon a time, a widow and her young child lived together in a little house.
