Meditation Stories: The Bird’s Eye
About 5000 years ago the great acharya (teacher) Drona decided to test his students' skill in archery. To test their aim he set up a wooden bird as the target on a distant tree and invited his studen ...
Meditation Stories: The story of Zazen
Once a Zen master noticed a monk trying too hard to meditate. So he interrupted the monk and asked: "What are you doing bhikhu (a wandering monk that takes alms)?" "I am meditating to become a ...
Meditation Stories: A King teaches AWARENESS to a monk
Once a spiritual seeker approached his guru and said "Sire! After years of sitting meditation, I still haven't attained unbroken awareness as the flow of oil from one container to another. Please, te ...
Meditation Stories: The Monkey Mind
A spiritual practitioner once on a casual visit was asked by his Guru how are his spiritual practices going on. "Not very well sir! I'm unable to cope up with the routine work and practices bo ...
Meditation Stories: The inexperienced woodcutter
Once upon a time, an unemployed man approached a timber merchant for a job but he was neither much educated nor did he have much experience however he had a strong and robust physique. So the merchant ...
Meditation Stories: Nature of Bondage and Liberation
Once a Sanga (spiritual gathering/group) of ascetics was travelling from one village to another and they came across a flooding river and on the bank of the river, they met a young beautiful woman, w ...