If you love, love openly
Twenty monks and one nun, who was named Eshun, were practicing meditation with a certain Zen master. Eshun was very pretty even though...
One note of Zen
After Kakua visited the emperor he disappeared and no one knew what became of him. He was the first Japanese to study Zen in China, but...
How to Write a Chinese Poem?
A well-known Japanese poet was asked how to compose a Chinese poem. “The usual Chinese poem is four lines,” he explains. “The first line...
Arresting the Stone Buddha
A merchant bearing fifty rolls of cotton goods on his shoulders stopped to rest from the heat of the day beneath a shelter where a large...
An Introduction to Zen
The following contains information from the preface of 101 Zen stories, with additional information added for student reference. Zen...
Effects Of Negative Thoughts
Humans experience an array of emotions, anything from happiness, to sadness to extreme joy and depression. Each one of these emotions...