Monthly Archives: January 2011

The Praying Hands

By admin | Published: January 31, 2011

Back in the fifteenth century, in a tiny village near Nuremberg, lived a family with eighteen children. Eighteen! In order merely to keep food on the table for this mob, the father and head of the household, a goldsmith by profession, worked almost eighteen hours a day at his trade and any other paying chore [...]

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Indian Spiritual Story on Karma and spirituality

By admin | Published: January 30, 2011

Two friends were on the way. As they were moving across the nasty place filled with prostitutes, one of them had a desire to spend a night indulging himself in physical pleasure. The other one was given this idea to which he denied, and told his friend not do so. They both parted, one going [...]

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MY DOG SKOOTER

By admin | Published: January 29, 2011

Skooter was a Labrador retriever that loved to chase cats and rabbits. It was seldom successful in its pursuits but once in a while it cornered one of its furry friends. When this happened, Scooter just turned and walked away leaving the little animal to escape for a future chase. At about 8:30 one evening, [...]

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Thoughts and feelings

By admin | Published: January 28, 2011

Today in the local newspaper there was a short story, which had a deeper insight. Once a king was chit chatting with his prime minister about the thoughts and the feelings. He told the prime minister that since the thoughts cannot be seen or read it is very easy to befool people. The prime minister [...]

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Fear – Story of a Lion

By admin | Published: January 27, 2011

There was a lion who feared nothing except the crowing of cocks. A chill would go down his spine whenever he heard a cock crowing.One day he confessed his fear to the elephant, who was greatly amused.“How can the crowing of a cock hurt you?” he asked the lion. “Think about it!”Just then a mosquito [...]

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You can’t please everyone

By admin | Published: January 26, 2011

One day a man was going to market with his son and his ass. they met a couple on the way. “Why walk when you have an ass to ride?” called out the husband, “seat the boy on the ass.” “I would like that,” said the boy, “help me up father.” The lark in her [...]

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Obedience – A Zen Story

By admin | Published: January 25, 2011

Zen stories are wonderful stories with deep insight. Every individual understands the story in one’s own way. Only the masters have the true understanding of the zen stories. Here i would write down what my mind understands through this story. Readers are welcomed to write their own understanding in the comments. The master Bankei’s talks [...]

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Time and Love

By admin | Published: January 24, 2011

Once upon a time, in an island there lived all the feelings and emotions : Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all of the others, including Love. One day it was announced to them that the island would sink! So all constructed boats and left. Except for Love. Love wanted to hold out until the last possible [...]

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Strength of being or physical strength and sharp techniques?

By admin | Published: January 23, 2011

Again one another Zen story to ponder upon. This one is called ‘Great Waves’. In the early days of the Meiji era there lived a well-known wrestler called O-nami, Great Waves. O-nami was immensely strong and knew the art of wresting. In his private bouts he defeated even his teacher, but in public was so [...]

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A Motivational Story with Wisdom Angel Smiling On You

By admin | Published: January 22, 2011

By Catherine Pulsifer, © 2007 Tears streamed down my face as I sat at my grandmother’s funeral. My grandmother lived a very full life, and was full of energy, love, and wisdom. She always said the right thing for the situation. And, whenever we had a problem, we knew we could talk with Grandma. As [...]

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