by Evan Dwan | Jun 13, 2019 | News |
One of Chuang Tzu’s stories recounts the following: ‘Chuang Tzu was one day fishing, when the Prince of Ch’u sent two high officials to interview him, saying that his Highness would be glad of Chuang Tzu’s assistance in the administration of...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 11, 2019 | News |
A Sufi story called ‘The scholar’ recounts the following: “Nasrudin, ferrying a pedant across a piece of rough water, said something ungrammatical to him. “Have you never studied grammar?” asked the scholar. “No.” “Then...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 10, 2019 | News |
An old myth tells the story of a time when ‘care’ was crossing a river and she saw some clay. She picked it up, and slowly began to shape it. While contemplating the beauty of what she had made, Jupiter came by and ‘care’ asked him to give it spirit, which he gladly...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 9, 2019 | News |
The Parable of the Talents “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 8, 2019 | News |
A story: A doorkeeper stands on guard before the temple of the Law. To this doorkeeper there comes a man who begs for admittance to the Law, but the doorkeeper says that he cannot admit the man at the moment. The man, on reflection, asks if he will be allowed then to...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 8, 2019 | News |
‘The tiger, the man, and God’ A man was being chased by a tiger. He ran as hard as he could until he was at the edge of a cliff with the tiger in hot pursuit. The man looked over the edge of the cliff and saw a branch growing out of the side of the cliff a...
