“I don’t know”, said the youth, with a strained expression. He went up to the young man and tapped him on his shoulder. The master could sense the young man’s frustration. He realized that the presence of the other students was interfering with the young man’s attempts to perfect his technique. One day, the master was watching a practice session in the courtyard. Every man fights his way through other men’s words to find his own truth.” Zen Story #2: Flow Like a River There is the story of a young martial arts student who was under the tutelage of a famous master. All our Buddhist words are only guideposts. Don’t confuse the pointing finger with the thing that is being pointed at. “Where is my dog looking?” asked the teacher of the bright pupil.
“Fetch me the moon,” he said to his dog and pointed to the full moon. Never let the words or symbols get in the way of truth. Here, I’ll show you.” With that the teacher called his happy dog. “You must understand,” said the teacher, “that words are only guideposts. On this particular evening, the teacher invited one of his brightest students to join him – a boy so intelligent that he became troubled by the contradictions in Buddhist doctrine. The dog would bound ahead to fetch a stick, then run back, wag his tail, and wait for the next game. Zen Story #1: The Pointer The Zen teacher’s dog loved his evening romp with his master. Savor these 7 parables that point to the ultimate non-insight. We gathered the very best Zen stories from the Far East. We sniffed ancient scrolls, in search for wisdom. To help you get there, we dug through old dusty books, half forgotten. To study Zen is to embark on a path of learning to stop resisting reality, and in doing so to free oneself from superfluous drama and the ceaseless ebb and flow of mental states.
One might say that the essence of Zen consists in the realization that life is something of a great silly dream, and that accepting all aspects of the dream precisely as they are, at any given moment, is the only way to liberate oneself from the unnecessary suffering that most of us inflict upon ourselves by resisting various attributes of reality or calling them “wrong.” Zen can transform your sense of identity, resulting in far less stress and anxiety, a near-inability to be bored, and a distinct tendency to never take life all that seriously. They’re tantalizing riddles that are sure to puzzle and captivate most anyone. Zen stories tend to be humorous, paradoxical, multi-layered, enigmatic, and written in a kind of rascally spirit. The insights that these stories seeded, as time rolled on, flowered into invaluable instructions for those wanting to reach liberation. Zen stories are the ancient words and deeds of Zen masters, which have been passed through the ages, crossing the dynasties and cultures of forgotten peoples, originating with the Buddha himself.
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