Seize the Last Moment
Buddha told a parable in sutra: A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after...
Read moreBuddha told a parable in sutra: A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after...
Read moreTanzan and Ekido were once traveling together down a muddy road. A heavy rain was still falling. Coming around a...
Read moreAnyone walking about Chinatowns in America with observe statues of a stout fellow carrying a linen sack. Chinese merchants call...
Read moreThe exquisite Shunkai whose other name was Suzu was compelled to marry against her wishes when she was quite young....
Read moreRyokan, a Zen master, lived the simplest kind of life in a little hut at the foot of a mountain....
Read moreIn the early days of the Meiji era there lived a well-known wrestler called O-nami, Great Waves. O-nami was immensely...
Read moreTanzan wrote sixty postal cards on the last day of his life, and asked an attendent to mail them. Then...
Read moreThere was an old woman in China who had supported a monk for over twenty years. She had built a...
Read moreTwenty monks and one nun, who was named Eshun, were practicing meditation with a certain Zen master. Eshun was very...
Read moreThe Zen master Hakuin was praised by his neighbours as one living a pure life. A beautiful Japanese girl whose...
Read moreGudo was the emperor's teacher of his time. Nevertheless, he used to travel alone as a wandering mendicant. Once when...
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