Tag: Miracles
Why Five Penguins Made Me Believe In Miracles
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One hot August afternoon, just after the end of WW II my mom and aunt Helen took me downtown on a bus to a...
Bundle Of Mmisery
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...
Right Audience
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:...
Miracle Of Trust
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....
An Idiot And A Wise Man
There is one Russian story, a small story. In a village a man, a young man, is called an idiot by everybody. From his...
The Wild Elephant
One of the many lives of the Bodhisattva was spent as an ascetic. This one time, he came back as the most superior ascetic...
A Prostitute And A Saint
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...
To Enemy With Love
But in ordinary life you are aware that opposites are always joined together, that they are not opposites but complementaries. You know perfectly well,...
Death Is Inevitable: A Buddhist Short Story
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...
The Greatest Miracle
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,...