One of the lessons Buddhist principle is that the Buddha is in us all the way to this state of enlightenment through meditation, mindfulness and concentration.
And Zen tales make me interested in Zen , the tales never have a conclusion for any story but will let's me think about it and this is some simple in Zen tales.
And I think many people had known or read it before but, the special of Zen is when we read tales may have a different conclusion in our mind but I think the best think Zen let me done is Zen told me to think and analyzed in our mind and understand it.
OK,let's read again..
Zen Stories from Japan, which contain the distilled essence of Buddhist philosophy, stress that spiritual awakening is not worship or dogma, but by direct experience of the world and turn the gaze inward.
Their simplicity is deceptive, as a will Irrlichtthat teases the mind and pushes it into new ways of thinking about the nature of life. Interpreted in many ways, what you make of them is the mirror image of what you are ...
full circle
Once learned, a professor visited a Zen master. Its purpose was to Zen. When the professor talked about Zen, and get what he wanted, without a word master served tea.
He poured the tea into the professor's cup, filled to the brim, and continuedfor water, although the cup was now full.
"I like this cup full. Until you empty, how can I show you Zen?" Our nature is full of ego, though, where is the place for wisdom?
Learning - how Zen
He lived prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, celebrated a guidestatesman and its military capabilities. Rich and powerful he was, he boasted of being a humble follower of Buddha.
He had often visited a Zen master to his knowledge. They spent many hours together as a humble teacher and student prolific and revered his position as prime minister, seemed of little consequence to one of them. One day his teacher asked the Prime Minister:
"Teacher, the Buddha has to say about selfishness?" Joyful expression of the Masterchanged. His face reddening, he asked loudly and mockingly:
"Well, what kind of query that stupid?" surprised by the tone insulting winner was the Prime Minister was silent, his face showing his anger and rebellion.
The Zen Master smiled. 'Well Lord, you know, what is egotism. " A teacher is but a guide - the answers to all questions are within us. We are ready for them?
A Monaco began a long pilgrimage to find the Buddha. He wandered for unsuccessfulseveral years until they reach a river. Across the river, he said, was the home of Buddha. The Monaco got into the boat, excited at the prospect of achieving the objective.
As the boatman rowed, the Monaco has seen a dead body in the water, swim to their boat. The body operating in the vicinity of the Monaco grasp and watched in horror that the body was face - his own!
Unable to control himself, he stopped screaming and crying.
This was the beginning of his enlightenment.
The Buddha iseverywhere. But how do we find it? With the help of our body, or putting the body?
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