Category Archives: Zen
Zen Stories; The other side.
One day a young man on his journey home came to the banks of a wide river. Staring hopelessly at the great obstacle in front of him, he pondered for hours on how to cross the river.
Just as he was about to give up, he saw a great teacher on the other side of the river. The young man yells over to the teacher, “Oh wise one, can you tell me how to get to the other side of this river”?
The teacher ponders for a moment looks up and down the river and yells back, “My son, you are on the other side”.
WU-TANG CLAN – Laphon Flood-Francis
RZA and many other African Americans were greatly influenced by the kung-fu films. African Americans were able to relate to the movies for multiple reasons. One being they were the only movies that…
Shaolin.
Delight – Great Middle Way
Overcome your uncertainties
and free yourself from dwelling in sorrow.
If you delight in life,
you will become a guide to those who need you,
revealing the path to many.
―Buddha Shakyamuni
Misty Rain on Mt. Lu – Su Tung-P’o
“Misty rain on Mount Lu,
and waves surging in Che-chiang.
When you have not yet been there,
many a regret surely you have;
but once there and heading homeward,
how matter-of-fact everything looks!
Misty rain on Mount Lu,
and waves surging in Che-chiang.”
—- Su Tung-P’o
Shaolin.
Change Your Emotions – Great Middle Way
To manifest any given emotional state, we develop a pattern:
We focus our attention on a specific feeling (pleasant or unpleasant) and magnify it.
We generate a supporting discursive thought process and identify with it.
We assume a compatible breath pattern and physical posture.
If you want to change your emotional state, change your focus, your self-talk, your breath, and your posture.
Tea . A Zen Story; rewritten by Nina Yin / Goodnightnina.
A Buddhist monk who studied and meditated on the teachings of Buddha for over a decade wanted to speak with an enlightened one who dwelled alone in a small temple high in the mountains. He prepared…
Source: Tea . A Zen Story; rewritten by Nina Yin / Goodnightnina.
Rage and Outrage – Great Middle Way
Some well-intentioned persons believe that rage and outrage are necessary for beneficial activism.
However, all variations of anger, while making us feel “sharp”, actually dull the mind and make us ineffective. Anger narrows our focus, and makes us blind to context. Anger exhausts and demoralizes. Anger destroys. Anger saps power.
Peace and radical compassion are the essential components of effective activism.
Source: Rage and Outrage
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