So… yeah. Don’t lie about it. We all try to look spiritual. Don’t we? We try to look more loving. We try to follow the books that we’ve read and look like we are supposed to look. We even have spiritual clothes We all do it! That is fabulous. You want to know what it …
Author Archives: Zareen
Trying to Look More Enlightened
Today’s Zen story is about pretending to look more enlightened than somebody else. And the craziness that comes from that.
Where Ever the Wind Takes
A long time ago, in the land of Zen, there were two monasteries who couldn’t get along. They were two different sects with different philosophies. They wouldn’t talk to each other and couldn’t agree. There was a long standing feud between these two ‘religions.’ These two monasteries, they each had young boys in their employ, …
Whats it like to be Fully Alive?
What’s it like to be fully alive? That’s really the question of this week’s Zen story on death. What that question is asking is: what’s it like to be enlightened? What’s it like to be awake? And the answer is, really, not that different than what you are doing now. The big difference A few …
Eight Billion Fully Awake Beings
So this week’s Zen story is about death. But really, it’s about life. Are we all fully grasping our life potential? Are we living our lives? This is a life or death question. It’s an important question because if we are only living our lives partially, then we are using up resources without a full …
What Happens When You Die?
Death This week’s Zen story is about death. A hot topic. Yes? I have a little thing here that I think that most people are not going to get, so I am interested in seeing your comments. You can comment on the Youtube video. What Happens When You Die? Soooooo… think about what happens when …
Zen Stories Shake Us Up
The purpose of Zen stories isn’t to make us feel better. Or to make us feel we already know something. It’s to shake us up. And that’s our story about death this week.
Death
A man once came to Sheik Faried and asked him, “What happens when we die?” Faried just laughed. He looked at him and said, “You have come to the wrong person. I don’t know anything about death because I’m alive. I’m not dead. I only know about life.”