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 …
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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.”
More Enlightened People Available Today
There are more enlightened people available today than there have ever been.
Spiritual Bickering
Our Zen story this week is about spiritual bickering. You would think that spiritual people would be the people that would get along the most, right? You’d think that because we believe in love that everyone should magically get along. Somehow it doesn’t work out, does it? It always seems to go wrong in every …
If Enlightenment Looked Like Something
One of my own little sayings is, “If enlightenment looked like something… then everyone would try to look enlightened.”