Tag: Truth

There is the story of a king who once built a special palace. He made it so impregnable that no enemy could enter it....

People are so foolish. Either they are deceived by words or they are deceived by silence — but they are deceived either way. There is...

I will tell you one Sufi story: A man is going in search of truth. As he comes out of his city, he finds...

Shambu Babu, my newly appointed tutor, coughed when he entered the room, fixed his tie, tried to stand upright and said, “Listen, boy, I...

I have told many times the story of Bodhidharma and his meeting with the Chinese emperor Wu — a very strange meeting, very fruitful....

The first incident happened before Ashtavakra was born. Nothing is known of what came afterwards but this is an incident while he was still...

YOU HAVE heard the story of Lazarus — that is a story of man as such. It is said Lazarus died. Jesus loved him...

I have heard a very old Tibetan story: There was a great sage who would not initiate anybody, who would not make anybody a disciple....

Let me tell you another story, again from the Chhandogya Upanishad. “Fetch me from a fruit of the nyagrodh tree,” asked the father, the great...

I am reminded of a butcher in Japan who was considered to be a great master — and he was a butcher! The whole...