Serenity Prayer
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is...
Who Am I?
A mother and her young son went to the busy market place and got separated. After frantically searching for her son throughout the...
Weakness in Others
"A weakness found in someone is yet another in ourselves." It can be rather easy to find a weaknesses or pass some judgement on others,...
Living With Light
A rich man was dying, so he called his three sons and said to them, "I wish to leave my fortune intact so I will set each of you the...
Education
"The ignorant man is the not the unlearned, but he who does not know himself, and the learned man is stupid when he relies on books,...
Act in the Present
Two monks were walking back to their monastery when they came to a ford at a stream. At the ford, a pretty farmer's daughter asked them...
Accept Whatever Comes
An oak tree grew in a garden for more than forty years. Once summer a nearby rosebud began to unfold the glorious colours of its...
Heaven and Hell
A great and powerful warrior came to the head monk of a monastery. He asked the monk to show him the difference between heaven and...
Search in the Right Place
A Zen parable ... A man came home late one night and as he was approaching his gate he accidently dropped his key on the ground where it...
Freedom
"What most people call freedom is just the ability to satisfy desire. Many say, "I want more freedom" and what they mean is they want to...
Reaction to Misery
Day in and day out, we see so much misery around us; death, greed, hatred, and so on. Most of these people suffer without realizing the...
Knowledge vs. Wisdom
Living in this world, it becomes very hard to differentiate between knowledge and wisdom. In a technological society, we start to...