What this week’s Zen story is about is the moment of Awakening. It’s just exactly like in the story when the prince suddenly remembers who I am. But it’s you remembering who you are.
Category Archives: Zen Stories
Picturing the Prince Remembers
Our Zen story for this week is The Prince Remembers. It creates the greatest picture in your mind of what the moment of awakening is like. When the prince suddenly remembers that he’s a prince all the years of forgetfulness fell off. He knew he was a prince. This enlightened moment is what you’re looking …
Zen says Don’t Be Confused
Zen is simply saying that you don’t have to be so confused. You can live your life in a simple way. In our story this week, about the Fertility Miracle, a woman comes and she wants to get a miracle because she is infertile. Her mother had come to this spiritual master’s teacher and she …
Rules for the Enlightenment Teacher
Rules We have so many rules about what we want an enlightenment teacher to look like. What we want a spiritual teacher of any kind to look like. And there’s lots of problems involved with that. Number one, first and foremost is that you are going to miss the true teacher. Because as we’ve been …
Fertility Blessing
This is a story about Bau Sin Tao. One day he was sitting in the marketplace, with his disciples, and friends, and family all around. And a woman comes up to him. She says, “Bau Sin. Years ago your master gave my mother a blessing and right after that she became pregnant with me and …
Never be For or Against
To hold the truth before you, never be for or against. This is a fabulous Zen saying, but it’s important to realize that this doesn’t mean to not be discerning at all. What it means to constantly question the belief system that sits in your mind. Always stop and examine yourself. Don’t be for it. …
We Try to Look Spiritual
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 …
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, …