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A monk asked the Chinese Ch'an master Chien Paling:
-What is the difference between the meaning of the Sutras and that of the Patriarch?
The master replied:
-When it is cold, hen would go up on a tree and duck down to water. more...

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STORIES, BOOKS & MEDIA
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For thousands of years, stories - inspiring, odd, humorous, off-centered - have awakened people's senses to their surrounding and within themselves. Here are a few for you to ponder.

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1. A Buddha
2. A Speaker of The Way
3. Breathing Practice
4. Chao-chou Asked for the Direction
5. Eshun and the Monks
6. Everyday Mind
7. Eyes Are Filled with Blue Mountains
8. Free From Imaging
9. Gudo and Mu-nan
10. He Who Perceives
11. Hoshin's Departure
12. How Is Suffering Created and How Is It Ceased?
13. How To Develop Your Faculties
14. I Do Not Hide Anything From You
15. If Nothing Is Found There to Delight In,...
16. Inward View and Outward View
17. Is that so?
18. It's Used Everyday but Not Known
19. Just Follow the Flow.
20. Kan-feng's One Road
21. Man of Wisdom Does Not Realize Tao
22. Mountain and Water
23. Mountain Flowers Valley Streams
24. Nan-in and the Cup of Tea
25. No Other Form
26. Nothing Exists
27. Objectivity and Subjectivity
28. One Is Liberated By Nonclinging
29. Only When You Have Examined
30. Reality As It Is
31. Realize This and Grasp at Nothing
32. Returning with Empty Handed
33. Ryokan and the Thief
34. Shoun a Teacher of Soto Zen
35. Subhuti's Emptiness
36. Suiwo and the Sound of One Hand Clapping
37. Tanzan and the Girl on the Road
38. That Which Is Now
39. The Best Way to Live Independently
40. The End of the World
41. The Eye
42. The Great Waves
43. The Meaning of the Sutras and That of the Patriarch
44. The Middle Path
45. The Night Interview of the Nun Myotei
46. The Old Woman and a Monk
47. The Past, The Present and The Future
48. The Shining Mind
49. The Sound of Rain Drops
50. The Teaching Is Like A Raft
51. The Visible Nibbana
52. The Way Toward Liberation
53. There Is or There Is Not
54. To See Beyond This Conditioned World
55. To View Things As They Are
56. Undersatnding Zen
57. Wandering in the Mountain
58. What Is Called Ignorance?
59. What Is Not Buddha Dharma?
60. What Is The All?
61. What Is The World?
62. What Is To Know For?
63. Where There Is Buddha, Do not Stay!
64. Who Is in the Well?
65. Who Is the One Who Does Not Know?
66. Why Didn't You Tell Me?
67. Why Is There Still Dust?
68. Yao-shan Ascended His Seat
69. You Monk Talkative

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