Tag: Miracles

There is a Sufi parable: A man used to call every night to God and he would pray the same prayer. Again and again he...

I am reminded of a story that actually happened. In Lucknow, there was a crazy king, Wajid Ali Shah. He was crazy in many ways:...

In Tibet, there is a beautiful story about Marpa. It may not be factual, but it is tremendously significant. I don’t care much about facts....

There is one Russian story, a small story. In a village a man, a young man, is called an idiot by everybody. From his...

One of the many lives of the Bodhisattva was spent as an ascetic. This one time, he came back as the most superior ascetic...

It happened: Vivekananda, before he went to America and became a world-famous figure, stayed in Jaipur Maharaja’s palace. The Maharaja was a lover of...

But in ordinary life you are aware that opposites are always joined together, that they are not opposites but complementaries. You know perfectly well,...

From the moment we’re born, we are, in a sense, dying, and the sooner realize how impermanent this life is, the less entangled we’ll...

When powers start happening in your spiritual growth, the greatest courage is needed not to show them. It is said of a disciple of Rinzai,...

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