Tag: Parable

Once, an adventurer and his crew got lost in a thick jungle. Armed with only a dull machete, he spent his days hacking through broad vines and thick vegetation. Nettles stung as they slapped against his bare shins. Barbs and thorns sliced his forearms as perspiration dripped down the small of his ba...

A young disciple asks: “Master, how do I enter Zen?” The master points to a distant mountain stream. “Do you hear it?” The disciple strains to listen and says, “Yes.” The master replies, “Enter Zen from there.” Several minutes later, the disci...