6 Awesome Zen Stories - Buddhaimonia
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Empty your cup
Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen.Explanation: The story tells it how it is, so I’ll leave it at that.
Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor’s cup full, and then kept on pouring. The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. “It is overfull. No more will go in!”
“Like this cup,” Nan-in said, “you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?”
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As always, the goal of this site is not to argue for one
position over another, but rather to encourage people to think about why they
believe what they do. For those who believe that God created human beings, we
point out that such a belief can be perfectly consistent with natural
selection. For those who insist upon subsequent divine intervention, we ask
them why: is it because God is not completely omniscient, or because he is not
completely omnipotent? Or perhaps you will come up with another reason, such as
that he changed his mind about how the creation should look. Whatever your
viewpoint, we encourage thinking about it, challenging it, and asking whether
it really makes sense. It is sad that people become so emotional and caught up
in this debate over intelligent design, and yet despite their willingness to
attack the convictions of others, they have seldom investigated their own.
- A feedback - Invited to read on, only after ensuring to be on precisely the same wavelength; so that understood, as intended,with no aberration:
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/catalyst/what-can-yoga-teach-marketing/article7637604.ece?homepage=true
You spoke about the concept of memory-less intelligence. How can a marketer access his ‘chittha’?
Marketers
cannot access that. Human beings can. When I was at the World Economic
Forum people kept referring to India as an emerging market. I say we are
not a marketplace. Once you look at a country as a marketplace, you are
going to put some nonsense that you have created and then try to
convince them that they must drink this, eat this, or use this. If I saw
you as a human being and I am concerned about you and your well-being I
would see what you need. If I made what you need, I need not market it.
Manufacturing is all that would be needed.
Right now
you are doing things that people do not need and you have to convince
them that they need it. You may end up convincing a generation. Older
generations were convinced that smoking tobacco was a must – otherwise
you are not man enough. But now suddenly it is not so good. This is what
a marketing man will do.
In that world what does marketing become?
Both
you and I are manufacturing something that consumers want. But now I am
trying to tell consumers that what I am manufacturing is what he really
wants. Not what you are doing. Actually, that’s the truth (laughs).
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A Buddha
In Tokyo in the Meiji era there lived two prominent teachers of opposite characteristics. One, Unsho, an instructor in Shingon, kept Buddha’s precepts scrupulously. He never drank intoxicants, nor did he eat after eleven o’clock in the morning. The other teacher, Tanzan, a professor of philosophy at the Imperial University, never observed the precepts. When he felt like eating, he ate, and when he felt like sleeping in the daytime, he slept.
One day Unsho visited Tanzan, who was drinking wine at the time, not even a drop of which is supposed to touch the tongue of a Buddhist.
“Hello, brother,” Tanzan greeted him. “Won’t you have a drink?”
“I never drink!” exclaimed Unsho solemnly.
“One who does not drink is not even human,” said Tanzan.
“Do you mean to call me inhuman just because I do not indulge in intoxicating liquids!” exclaimed Unsho in anger. “Then if I am not human, what am I?”
“A Buddha,” answered Tanzan.
KEY Note:
In today's context, the humanity, -of which me, you and whole of the rest form an inseparable part, hence have a role to play or function to discharge, call it 'karma' or by any other name of one's own choice- undeniably replete with mutual-, often self-, contradictions; which lead to controversies galore, with no solution or resolution of any type. In essence, as read and understood, that seems to be underlying message in the subject dialogue @
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/catalyst/what-can-yoga-teach-marketing/article7637604.ece?homepage=true
Alike is seen to be the message as sought to be conveyed , but with a slightly different stroke HERE
A Buddha
That is a short Zen story; about two prominent teachers, Unsho and Tarzan but of opposite characteristics. The first is a strict follower cum observer of Buddhas precepts; the other just the opposite, albeit known to be 'professor of philosophy at the Imperial University',
Tail Piece:
How do we help people gain clarity without focusing
too much on the confidence? Even if we speak from your experience, where
did you find that clarity yourself?
You are who
you are only on the matter of what you perceived. What you have not
perceived is not you, isn’t it? Whether you are consciously aware of
this or not, how people experience you is based on whatever we have
perceived. Instead of enhancing perception, we are again trying to
enhance expression. You are in the space of social media. People are
forever expressing on every topic no matter whether they know something
or not. This is the age of expression without perception. It’s a
disaster.
People are becoming who they are because of
what they express and not because of what they have perceived. The
nature of life is such that only what you have perceived is you. Right
now, because you picked bits and pieces from around the world, you can
express all kinds of things you don’t know enough about.
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A Buddha
In Tokyo in the Meiji era there lived two prominent teachers of opposite characteristics. One, Unsho, an instructor in Shingon, kept Buddha’s precepts scrupulously. He never drank intoxicants, nor did he eat after eleven o’clock in the morning. The other teacher, Tanzan, a professor of philosophy at the Imperial University, never observed the precepts. When he felt like eating, he ate, and when he felt like sleeping in the daytime, he slept.
One day Unsho visited Tanzan, who was drinking wine at the time, not even a drop of which is supposed to touch the tongue of a Buddhist.
“Hello, brother,” Tanzan greeted him. “Won’t you have a drink?”
“I never drink!” exclaimed Unsho solemnly.
“One who does not drink is not even human,” said Tanzan.
“Do you mean to call me inhuman just because I do not indulge in intoxicating liquids!” exclaimed Unsho in anger. “Then if I am not human, what am I?”
“A Buddha,” answered Tanzan.
KEY Note:
In today's context, the humanity, -of which me, you and whole of the rest form an inseparable part, hence have a role to play or function to discharge, call it 'karma' or by any other name of one's own choice- undeniably replete with mutual-, often self-, contradictions; which lead to controversies galore, with no solution or resolution of any type. In essence, as read and understood, that seems to be underlying message in the subject dialogue @
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/catalyst/what-can-yoga-teach-marketing/article7637604.ece?homepage=true
Alike is seen to be the message as sought to be conveyed , but with a slightly different stroke HERE
A Buddha
That is a short Zen story; about two prominent teachers, Unsho and Tarzan but of opposite characteristics. The first is a strict follower cum observer of Buddhas precepts; the other just the opposite, albeit known to be 'professor of philosophy at the Imperial University',
Tail Piece:
Seeing is believing- of course, but the obstinate, rather inscrutable, reality is, - a
human cannot ‘see’ anything clearly, with ‘eyes’ alone, more so if in darkness all around.
Unless one if, not being a feline, learns to see , rather perceive, with inner mind
/ brain !
So also, with the saying- beauty is in the eyes of the ‘seer’
– preceptor.
Suggested Exercise: 'Introspection'
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