Enlight What is the truth? When, after many years spent in the Shaolin monastery, Bodhidharma decided to leave the Celestial Empire, before leaving, he gathered around the best students in order to find out: what did they under... Parables Zen Parables Enlight
Enlight Hell and heaven A samurai named Nobushige came to Hakuin and asked: “Is it true that there is heaven and hell?” "Who are you?" - asked Hakuin. “I am a samurai,” answered the warrior. “You are a soldier!” exclaimed Ha... Parables Zen Parables Enlight
Enlight You can't steal the moon Renan, the Zen master, lived the simplest life in a small hut at the foot of a mountain. One evening a thief broke into the hut and discovered that there was nothing there to steal. Returning, Renan f... Parables Zen Parables Enlight
Enlight Not love - kindness There lived a woman in China who helped a monk for over 20 years. She built him a small hut and fed him while he meditated. Finally, she wanted to know how much he had progressed during this time. To ... Parables Zen Parables Enlight
Enlight Not far from Buddhism One university student, during a visit to Gadzan, asked him: “Have you read the Christian Bible?” “No, read it to me,” Gadzan replied. The student opened the Bible and began to read from the Gospel of... Parables Zen Parables Enlight
Enlight Finding a Diamond on a Dirt Road Gudu was the teacher of the emperor of his time. Despite this, he often traveled alone under the guise of a traveling beggar. One day, as he was walking to Edo, the cultural and political center of th... Parables Zen Parables Enlight
Enlight Mother's advice Jiun, a master of the Shingon school, was a well-known Sanskrit scholar during the Tokugawa Era. When he was young, he lectured to his brother students. His mother heard about this and wrote him a let... Parables Zen Parables Enlight
Enlight How can you judge? There lived an old man in a village. He was very poor, but all the emperors envied him because he had a beautiful white horse. No one had ever seen such a horse, distinguished by its beauty, stature, ... Parables Taoist Parables Enlight
Enlight Blind One blind man was able to guess by touch what it was for every animal that was put in his hands. And then one day they placed a wolf cub on him; he felt it and said, thinking: “I don’t know whose cub ... Greek Parables Parables Enlight
Enlight Prayer to Zeus A shepherd who was tending a herd of oxen lost his calf. He looked for him everywhere, did not find him, and then made a vow to Zeus to sacrifice a kid if the thief was found. But then he entered a gr... Greek Parables Parables Enlight
Enlight Conquest of the world They say that on the day Alexander became ruler of the world, he locked himself in a room and cried. His commanders were worried. What's happened? They had never seen him cry. He was not that kind of ... Greek Parables Parables Enlight
Enlight Genghis Khan and woman There was a case when the wife of one prince approached Genghis Khan with a request to free her relatives. Genghis Khan said, “Here are your husband, your son, and your brother standing in front of yo... Oriental Parables Parables Enlight
