by Soham Healing | Sep 11, 2021 | Fables
An old story speaks about a similar problem. A devoted meditator, after years concentrating on a particular mantra, had attained enough insight to begin teaching. The student’s humility was far from perfect, but the teachers at the monastery were not worried. A...
by Soham Healing | Sep 11, 2021 | Fables
A stream from its source in far-off mountains, passing through every kind & description of countryside, at last reached the sands of the desert. Just as it had crossed every other barrier, the stream tried to cross this one, but it found as it ran into the sand,...
by Soham Healing | Sep 11, 2021 | Fables
One day a young Buddhist 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 just how to cross such a wide barrier. Just as he was about to give up his pursuit to continue his...
by Soham Healing | Sep 11, 2021 | Fables
Gudo was the emperor’s teacher of his time. Nevertheless, he used to travel alone as a wandering mendicant. Once when he was on his was to Edo, the cultural and political center of the shogunate, he approached a little village named Takenaka. It was evening and...
by Soham Healing | Sep 11, 2021 | Fables
Early one morning before sunrise, a fisherman arrived at a river. On the bank he stumbled against something & found a small sack of stones. He picked up the sack, and putting his net aside, sat down on the bank to await the sunrise. He was waiting for dawn to...
by Soham Healing | Sep 11, 2021 | Fables
One day Mara, the Evil One, was travelling through the villages of India with his attendants. He saw a man doing walking meditation whose face was lit up on wonder. The man had just discovered something on the ground in front of him. Mara’s attendant asked ” What was...
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